Thread: Trying my new light box out

CS

I well remember Grumpy John's new man cave and his desire to build a cyclorama. You can see the link at My new man cave WIP. Your photographic accessory was not quite what I was anticipating, but no matter. It was very effective and so well priced and I would never have guessed the humble origins.

I have a preference for the burl pen, but it seems I am out of step wth everybody else. All of them are very nicely done.

Regads
Paul

Originally Posted by QC Inspector

Fit and finish on your pens look good. The Wenge pen the nicest to my eyes.

Would you mind stopping back and take a few pictures of your light box setup? It will help others finding this thread making their own.

Pete

Hi Pete

Thank you , ok a few ppl like the Wenge Pen

Thanks for your comments


Cheers Sally


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Originally Posted by mature one

I have made segmented pens with offcuts of acrylic and the look pretty good if you choose the right colours of the offcuts, this will work with any product you make pens out of.

Hi mature one

Yes I totally agree with you there regarding that you choose the right colours to go together

That is a make or break I say

Thanks for your feedback

Cheers Sally


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Originally Posted by Treecycle

Looks like you have had plenty of practice and got the turning down pat now. They all look good.
I would like to see your light box setup too.

Hi Treecycle

Thank you. I’m really happy with them too

The light box pics are already on here

Cheers Sally


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Originally Posted by Penpal

e your pens and pics. I found by removing all covering on my open light box made from conduit it enabled me to get more oomph in my pics. Freezing here this morning I neglected to say the decorations IMHO really offset the colours and stabilise the design so well.

Peter.

Hi Peter

Thanks for your comment

Cheers Sally

Originally Posted by woodPixel

1 - Wenge pen definitely my favourite

2 - That light box is the bodgiest POC I've ever seen! But effective!

Hi woodpixel

Yes I like the wenge pen too

Yes the light box is quite effective, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it

Cheers Sally

Originally Posted by Pindan

I dabble a bit in photography so I learn from looking at others photos. I would try a higher aperture to get the focus sharper on the outer edges of the subjects.

If you look at the nib/tip of the wenge pen it is a bit blurry as is the top of the purple on gold. By adjusting the aperture to a higher F value will increase the focus area.

Cheers
Pindan

Hi Pindan

Thank you so much for your advise , but at this stage all my pics are taken on my iPhone

Yes I know a lot of ppl don’t like them

Cheers Sally

Originally Posted by Ironwood

Good to see some teamwork happening, well done Matt and Sally.

LEDs make good lighting for this type of thing. I use those LED downlights that fit into a 95mm ? Hole in the ceiling. My lightbox has 5 of them, well diffused, cuts right down on the shadows, the only downside, is the diffused light doesn’t show the shine on my pens. I am sure there would be a way to show the shine, maybe a single undiffused light carefully positioned beside the camera might do the trick, but I’m always too busy to experiment.

Hi Ironwood

Thanks for your feedback

Cheers Sally

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

CS

I well remember Grumpy John's new man cave and his desire to build a cyclorama. You can see the link at My new man cave WIP. Your photographic accessory was not quite what I was anticipating, but no matter. It was very effective and so well priced and I would never have guessed the humble origins.

I have a preference for the burl pen, but it seems I am out of step wth everybody else. All of them are very nicely done.

Regads
Paul

Hi Paul


Thanks for your comments

Much appreciated


Cheers Sally

Originally Posted by CraftySally

Hi Pindan

Thank you so much for your advise , but at this stage all my pics are taken on my iPhone

Yes I know a lot of ppl don’t like them

Cheers Sally

If you are using your phone you can get the same results by putting your camera into scenic mode which will do the same thing most of the time.

BTW phone cameras are great.

Originally Posted by Pindan

If you are using your phone you can get the same results by putting your camera into scenic mode which will do the same thing most of the time.

BTW phone cameras are great.

Hi Pindan


I did not know that

Thanks for letting me know

Cheers Sally

had a look in Bunnings near me, they are 30 upwards bucks a light!!!!

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Hi Dallas,
The Card for the light box was just white card from Office works,

The lights were these from Bunnings

I think they were ticked price of $7 au.
But with my power pass discount they were $5 each,
So really happy with that.

Sally’s last shots were taken only with the one light above,but I have brought some more of those lights, so the next shots I will go from hubby, to mobile light stand thingy guy[emoji6].
So hopefully that gets rid of the shadows.

So really the price is now $20 Au for the box if we use three lights.

Cheers Matt.

A bit off topic but, why does the light have to be installed by a licensed electrician? Might have something to do with the 'garantie'?

Alan...

Originally Posted by Uncle Al

A bit off topic but, why does the light have to be installed by a licensed electrician? Might have something to do with the 'garantie'?

Alan...

It doesn’t
Dallas was having a laugh at me, an I didn’t pick up on it [emoji6].
You don’t need a Eleltrician

Cheers Matt.