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Budget photographic lighting "tent".

Budget photographic lighting \"tent\".
Improve your table-top photography dramatically, at almost no cost, by modifying a cheap, readily available plastic bucket.
 
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Step 1On-camera flash (strobe)

On-camera flash (strobe)
This is what most on-camera or built-in flash (strobe lighting) will produce. It doesn't show the product in a good light, literally. You can't see what this little ornament is really made of.

Mail order specialists and online trading experts all agree: good pictures boost sales.

You can improve your own photos of small items quickly and easily, using exactly the same principles as professional photographers, but you dont have to invest in an expensive light tent to do it.
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21 comments
Jun 19, 2009. 8:54 AMphotoman022 says:
brilliant! so simple yet so brilliant. Thank you!
Jun 3, 2008. 3:49 PMoncex says:
NICE!!! I will go and get one of those cheapo dollar store buckets because I'm sure they will be thinner and cheap :D
Jan 12, 2007. 1:35 PMDoctor Popular says:
Neat, a photobucketphotobucket.
Jan 13, 2007. 2:56 PMJesus10555 says:
The Advertisers pay. The site, for example, photobucket, contacts certain sites, sometimes as an Affiliation. So photobucket will put an ad up for other websites, lets just say mmatch.com. In exchange for an Ad on photobucket, Match.com will pay photobucket for link related statistics. It all depends on the "affiliate" site; some base it on how many views were on a page containing their link so if you visit photobucket and an ad is displayed for match.com, then photobucket is credited by match.com some base it on how many times the link was clicked (or like those ringtone ads, how many people interacted with it) like if you were on photobucket, and saw an ad for match.com and clicked on it, going to their site some base it in a referrall way, as how many people were linked to the site and then registered or purchased something on the site your on photobucket, you click the match.com link, and sign up. or linked to amazon, and bought something most of it is in linking, There may be other ways to earn money, I wouldnt put down any other ideas of how money is generated, but Im pretty sure the primary way is linking,
Jan 16, 2007. 4:30 PMJesus10555 says:
yeah, no problem
Jan 10, 2007. 10:57 AMBrobru says:
Semi - related question. Where did you get the guitar clock?
Jan 9, 2007. 6:54 PMTool Using Animal says:
That is really nice, unfortunately all my buckets are full of parts.
Jan 10, 2007. 1:01 AMcheapgeek says:
Nice- much better than the one gallon milk jug I was using..
Jan 9, 2007. 2:14 PMJezza Bear says:
This is a really great idea and especially useful for some of the other members of this forum for demonstrating their work, i will certainly be trying this out, although I do not have a posh lamp like you. On the subject of colour temperature and the use of tungsten and fluorescent light. When i was younger I used a blue filter for tungsten and a pink/red for fluorescent. Will the colour of the bucket make a difference or is it best to do filters from the lamp or from the camera?
Jan 9, 2007. 3:52 PMJezza Bear says:
Thanks I was a keen 35 mm camera hobbyist for about 25 years before I got my digicam but was more landscape, so this is a great tip.
Jan 9, 2007. 4:41 PMtheRIAA says:
theres an outside?

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