I briefly mentioned a few weeks ago that my husband (Brian) built me a light tent. I thought I would show you pictures and encourage you to try it out for yourself.
It was such an easy project, it took Brian about 20 minutes to put it together. We (roughly) followed the tutorial found here (via photocritic). We didn’t glue the legs to the top frame, so we can take the whole thing apart and lay it flat or stash it in a closet.
Here is a picture of the finished product:
You can see in that picture that I had my camera sitting above, shooting straight down on my subject. I took my Valentine’s picture from this angle. Below is a picture that I took with my camera positioned in front of the tent (with blue paper as the backdrop). And the picture of the patchwork ball was also taken using the same angle.
If you are selling on etsy, ebay, or some other online venue, it would be a super handy tool to use. Your products will look great with nice even lighting and a clean background.
I love to photograph crafty items in the tent, and I have used it for some photos for istockphoto.
If you have a light tent, let me know what you like to photograph in it!
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I’ll definitely have to try one of these myself – you have a really nice setup here!
You should have mentioned how a light tent will transform your living room into a photography studio, in other words I want my living room back… I love you honey.