Wednesday, January 5, 2011

My 30 Second Lightbox

I need to sell two of my unused lenses on eBay. They're old Canon FD mount lenses for my AE-1 film camera. I need the money more than I need wide angle, and I originally purchased them way below market value. Of course, things on eBay usually sell based on price and pictures, so I needed to take pretty pictures of the lenses before listing them.
My solution was to make a quick light box out of wax paper, a small cardboard box, and a sheet of white printer paper.

  1. Cut a hole in the top of the box

  2. Put my ... in the box. Wait. Tape wax paper over the opening.

  3. Put a sheet of white paper in the box to create an "infiniti sweep" look

  4. Take pictures.


1 comment:

  1. I made the same thing when I started to really get into food photography. I moved on to take up half a garage after i got kicked out of the spare room.

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