Barbara
I think the link was a link Leen posted. I remembered it because I though it was a really great idea but have since lost the link.
Grant
Thanks, Grant. I’ll search that way.
Barb, can you post the link when you find it ? 🙂 I will be sure to bookmark. Sounds like something I would like.
If I ever find it, Jodi, I’ll be glad to. Tried searching with Leen’s name but he posts too much–it only went back to about the middle of last month. 8)
In the meantime, here are some ways you can do it yourself:
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well, that is a start. Thanks
also, you could put Leen’s name in lights to get his attention 😉
Thanks, Grant! Wow, that is very cool, but it’s not the one I was looking for.
I didn’t think I had seen it here, but rather via a link on some photoshop-related site, like creativemac or something.
I appreciate your taking so much trouble.
Barbara
I would love to take credit about being so noble and altruistic in doing this search for you, but in truth once you posted it jogged my memory and I had to have the link for myself. So just like a typical man it was not all that chivalrous a search.
Grant
Ray,
Do you know, off hand, whether Booth exports to the US?
Dick
Dick, I’ve checked all the usual resources and I couldn’t find any dealers here.
Thanks Barbara,
May try and email them just to see.
Dick
It is pretty easy to create your own light box with some white sheets. I’ve done that several times before when had to record the antique silver of our municipal museum. Just remember, for shiny objects, don’t use an internal frame as it will reflect in the objects.
The easiest way however for non shiny objects is to wait for an overcast day. When it is very cloudy, the sky is the largest and most evenly lighting lightbox one can imagine. Whenever possible I use daylight.
Another easy way is to hang this bedsheet from one or two knots in the centre to the branch of a tree or something else and spread it out on the bottom side over the sides of a table. The lighting of your object will be very even.
You don’t really need any sophisticated equipment to do the job; often simple solutions will do and morover, the more you improvise, the better the understanding of what you really are doing.
Leen
Dick
No, I don’t know if they sell to other countries. But I’d assume they do, however. We’re exporting a lot of stuff (Celine Dion, le Cirque Du Soleil, Shanya Twain…) and as charming as they are, those are far less handy than a portable light box… 😉
Ray
Hi, Leen. Thanks. Unfortunately, I need to track down the manufacturers of that particular box, so I’ll have to keep looking. Darn, I wish I could remember where I saw the link.
Ray, 🙂
what a way with words you have ! Oh, you forgot the Labatt Blue 😉
I don’t know, Ray. le Cirque Du Soleil makes me wonder if they are really human. They do things with their bodies that just aren’t supposed to happen.!
Oh, you forgot the Labatt Blue 😉
And that would definitely by a worthwhile adjunct for any lightbox!
Dick
It might be this website:
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Look for the Cubelight.
This company is UK based, but it is for sale in the USA as well: Bogen Photo Corporation
565 East Crescent Avenue
Po Box 506 Ramsey
New Jersey NJ 07446-0506
Phone: 001-201-818-9500
My 2 eurocents.
Leen
Thanks, Leen. Yes, that is very similar in concept. The one I was looking for information about was a very cheap (in all senses of the word, I expect) copy of that general idea.
I’ve never tried using a light box before. I made a home made one – one inverted child’s plastic table, two large sheets of white swiss voile (left over from a smocking project!) and a large sheet of white cartridge paper. Illumination a mixture of natural light and a tungsten desk lamp – Too much all-around natural light to get much in the way of interesting directional shadows (I’ll try again after dark), but really lovely soft lighting.
Hi, Susan. Another good way is to get picture stretchers and a cheap shower curtain and shine the light through that so that you get a bright spot in the middle of the fabric fading to dark at the edges. You can wire the stretchers together with big garbage bag twist ties. Halogen desk lamps (especially the clip-on ones) make great light sources, but you have to be careful about the heat with the material.
