Items used:
- Cardboard box (found around the house)
- 23 watt day light energy saving blub from n:vision with light output
(lumens) of 1200. (Purchased 2 for $8.00 at Home Depot)
- white satin fabric at the dimentions of three sides of the cardboard
box (Purchased 1 yard for $6.00 at JoAnn - a local chain fabric/crafts
store)
- sheet of thick white artists paper (I had this stuff at home, but I
picked this up for a dollar or so at Michaels crafts/art store)
With all the materials gathered, I cut the box on four sides.
After cutting, I taped down the satin fabric around the three sides of
the box as seen in the picture. And as simple as that, I was finished.
Since I'm only using 1 bulb, and I did not use anywhere near a full yard
of fabric, the total costs for this light box is approximately 7-8 dollars.
Now for a few quick test pictures. I took the following
pictures with the single lightbulb setup:
The following pictures have absolutely no post editing.
The blue tint in the G3's pictures are due to using the "tungsten"
setting for the whitebalance. I changed the whitebalance setting to "daylight"
for the Haruhi pictures.
Update Information:
January 6, 2007: While randomly surfing the web last
week, I came upon a little tutorial on building light boxes. I have always
wanted to build/buy one but they were a little on the expensive side and
were not the size I wanted. So today, while doing some random errands, I
passed by some light bulbs and the little tutorial popped back into my head.
So I went and gathered a few items to build the light box.
Lightbox Tutorial
