At one of the recent online BreyerFests, there was an online workshop on making your own lightbox for photography. Fairly low budget - you need a cardboard box, some parchment or tracing paper, and posterboard or something for a background. And tape.I made a fairly large one, but thought a small one for Stablemates and similar things would be useful too. So, off I went.
I made some upgrades yesterday - the edges got extra layers of cardboard for reinforcements. Today I cut the posterboard for the floor and back. Turned out pretty good. The lighting is a work in progress. Right now I've got an Ott-lite on one side and a small lamp on the other side, and a reading light that you wear around your neck for a moveable light. I think the workshop version had an open top, but I did a window top for more stability. I need to find the tracing paper, though. Parchment paper was barely large enough, and the tape doesn't like to grip the parchment paper very well.
But it does a pretty good job so far.
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