Looks like it's fancy time. Or at least timepieces. Most of my lightbox experiments result in similarly ambiguous feelings towards the results, wonder if that's part of the fun of using a lightbox?
Looks like it's fancy time. Or at least timepieces. Most of my lightbox experiments result in similarly ambiguous feelings towards the results, wonder if that's part of the fun of using a lightbox?
Hey man, good to hear from you.
Well here's the thing, you know how to take photos properly, I stumble along and sometimes get lucky...but I enjoy working with the lightbox and want to build my own bigger one. That which I use is a cheap fold-down one I was given as a gift. I've made it work though, now and then, in my fumbling, stumbling, knob-twiddling manner.
One of these days I'll figure out how to balance the online and offline worlds but for now it's just good to be talking at you again :)
Methinks you give me too much credit and yourself not enough. Shooting with a lightbox or in a studio has never been my thing, I just sort of fiddle around it much like you. Let me know how it goes when you build you one, I built my lightbox, a cardboard and cheesecloth affair, and I've never been able to tell if I'm doing something wrong shooting or if there's something wrong with the lightbox build. So mostly I just fuck around with in once in a while in that fumbling, stumbling, knob-twiddling manner.
I was thinking of making it from coreflute and using the pattern of the one I have as a template - it opens up flat then folds together. That way I just need to double up the measurements and I'm left with one twice the size. That's the plan anyway. It won't be foldable as I'll glue/tape it together for structural integrity, but it will allow me to get larger items in there so I can fumble, bumble and knob-twiddle on a larger scale.