Those white camera box/booth things ?

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Hi Gents , has any got or used the white boxes for photography if so are they worth getting , my camera is pants so I`m just about to order a new/better camera and while I`m at it was going to get one of them portable (32inch x 32inch) photo booths , but before I spend more of my hard earned I thought I would get some advice from you guys

Cheers

Richy

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I've had some ideas about this myself Richy. What I would say is start of with some of the DIY ones first & see if that works for you.

You could just take a large carboard box, cut out panels in the sides & top, cover the holes with tracing paper or cotton sheet to diffuse the light & then use 2 or 3 desk lamps (in Argos they're only about £5 a pop) and voila, your own lightbox!

Patrick

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The camera I`m looking at guys is a Olympus x24 - 14mp - 5x optical zoom - 4x digital zoom , would this be ok for modelling pictures ?

Cheers

Richy

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Good idea Patrick , could even make one out of some mdf off cuts I`ve got , as for the lighting I was going to get them from argos - can you use any old bulb of does it have to be high watts ?

cheers mate

Richy

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I'd say about 80-100 watts but if you google for it, there's loads out there. Here's a link that I'm planning to follow once I get the time. How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent – DIY

If you do it first, I'd be very interested in the results.

Patrick

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I have one of the light tents from ebay, quite cheap and folds up (once you have the hang of it) quite small for storage. Nice touch is that it comes with cloth coloured backgrounds that velcro into the tent. I don't always use them though and they do need to be ironed as they crease when folded. Are they worth it? I think so as once you have established a setup, it becomes repeatable with little problems. I wold advise you have a go at a DIY solution if you can though as you may end up with the results you want with very little layout. Just be prepared to experiment and use a tripod with your aperture set to F5.6 to F11 as this will give you decent depth of field (more in focus) It does not matter if the camera is on a tripod how slow the shutter speed is so long as you get the most in focus that you can.

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Richy if you go into staples and get yourself 4 bits of white board it will cost you about £4.00 and just tape the outsides together, thats what i use. As for lighting i use two bendy desk lamps with white or daylight bulbs as this so that when you take your picks you don't get that orange hue you get from the household bulbs. you can get the daylight or white light bulbs from the art shops or from a photography shop, they cost a little more than normal bulbs but the effects are worth it.

scott

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Hey Richy

I reckon you've got the skills to make one for a fraction of the cost. Try and get a daylight bulb, they give a white light and is nicer for photographs. The camera will have white balance settings that should help. I don't know the camera you mentioned but from the numbers you quoted it is more than capable of taking pictures intended for the web, in fact you might find you have to reduce the size for the forum or we'll all be looking at photos the size of football pitches! Check it's got a macro mode for nice close up shots.

Remember, if you're going for realistic dioramras, the original vehicles weren't shot in a studio. The sun is a single point source of light, whch can cast some pretty strong shadows sometimes. See these photos of a model shot in sunlight from a helicopter forum, it's awesome!

Mil Mi-24V Hind-E (Trumpeter 1/35) by Rod Bettencourt

Tony B

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Hey Richy

I reckon you've got the skills to make one for a fraction of the cost. Try and get a daylight bulb, they give a white light and is nicer for photographs. The camera will have white balance settings that should help. I don't know the camera you mentioned but from the numbers you quoted it is more than capable of taking pictures intended for the web, in fact you might find you have to reduce the size for the forum or we'll all be looking at photos the size of football pitches! Check it's got a macro mode for nice close up shots.

Remember, if you're going for realistic dioramras, the original vehicles weren't shot in a studio. The sun is a single point source of light, whch can cast some pretty strong shadows sometimes. See these photos of a model shot in sunlight from a helicopter forum, it's awesome!

Mil Mi-24V Hind-E (Trumpeter 1/35) by Rod Bettencourt

Tony B

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As noble said get a daylight bulb colour 860 some might refer to the as 865 depends whose they stock. But I would get them from an electrical wholesaler they will a fraction of the price of a craft shop, I'm a buyer for an electrical wholesaler and going from memory the last once we got cost £1.41 ex vat for a 30w bulb

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Cheers Guys , your advice has given me something to work on

Richy