{"id":2501,"date":"2016-01-29T21:46:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2016-01-29T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T02:46:20","slug":"photo-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanderheide.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/photo-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the difficult conditions in my apartment is a lack of decent lighting to photograph much of anything very well. Earlier this week I went ahead and made myself a little mini photography studio for shooting models in a clean, neutral environment.<\/p>\n

While you can buy similar professional “Photo Cubes” with fine mesh fabric sides that are nicely collapsible and portable, this version is about as cheap as you can get – an old cardboard box for the structure with the top and sides cut out and covered with translucent white tissue paper to let in light and diffuse it. The backdrop is a piece of white posterboard cut to fit the width of the box and loosely inserted. This can easily be swapped out for other darker colours if desired.<\/p>\n

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I’m still playing around with lighting and camera settings for the best results – this is a new setup for me and I’m no professional – but it’s looking like it should work out so far. Here’s a couple of the best results from doing some experimenting this evening:<\/p>\n

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(Just ignore for now that the strapping and final details on this load haven’t been completed yet, I just wanted to experiment with something.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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