Home made studio

[Alex168]

Well i was sitting around before bed time craving to take some shots, but wasnt really in the mood of going out. So i started building a studio at home so to speak. Now i use A4 papers for reflections, and decided to pic up some objects i had laying around the house and shoot them just for funsies!

the last pic is a picture of the setup i was working with, the orginal shots came out quite clean, apart from i gotta way to disguise the shadows i think i need a 4th of 5th source of light. There was barley any light in my room, but i shoot at ISO 100 anywas, i had mounted the SB 600 with the difuser, when i was messing around to hook up all the lighting i wanted to move one of my lamps in my room and the bulb broke now i only got 1 out of 3 working, time to change them here the shots come, some what diffrent but i just wanted to share like always!









if your wondering that orange stuff isnt orange juice its passion fruit extract with water, and water bottle, celotejp to place the A4 togher, IKEA lamps, some of my pictures on teh wall that i developed back in the days in a lab, and a souviner that i brough back home from brazil on the window rack!

[Alex168]

I wanted to share that with everyone as well as the second setup that i was working with. I think playing with lightning is alot of fun and i end up doing some pretty crazy things. I have no tripod (yeat) but i will get one. Here is another shot of my setups as well as the results

here are the shots




The setup:


p.s. those pink gloves on the setup images are not mine, they belong to my mother and i used them when i was handeling the glass that i shot on, i gave it a really nice clean and then i used the gloves.

EDIT: edit of images because i was breaking the rules :P

[jsanders]

Hey alex. Your second try is really so cool! How did you get the reflection in it on the bottom? Is that post processing or is this the real photo.
About the first foto, the shadows are really anoyoing. Do you have a workaround on how te get rid of it?

[zoliky]

Use tracing paper between light and subject to remove the shadows. Is easier to remove the shadows with light tent.

Some useful information, how to build a cheap light tent: http://digital-photography-school.co...ve-light-tent/

[Alex168]

Hey thanks for the comments, i m sorry i forgot to say that. I dont knw if it possibel to see or not but you can see the two towers of video casset tapes on either side of the black cloth going throught the middle image. What i used there was the glass of a picture fram which gave the reflection of the objects. The only post processing i did on the images was the 1st shot, i just wanted to change the contrast/saturation/colours abit, but when it comes to the second post so to speak there was no post proceessing what so ever. For those ikea lights i used a WB Incandescent +3 that was the WB that i found gave the most natural looking light.

When it comes to the first photos that was the first trail i ever did, and i was using two diffrent light sources which ended up not beeing so good afterall, i shot with the SB 600 and as you can see the light in the setup. I have worked around this and i knw what i can do to get rid of it, and that is by having another light lighting up the background or alternative move the subject a bit further away from the background. Now that was like my nooby shots but i learnt alot since that been reading like crazy.

Yes i m right now working on building a light tent as well, or a softbox BOX, so i can controll the shadows! I will try to do another setup today the only thing is that i dont have that many lights around!

[lputman]

Very nice. That second shot is stunning!

[Alex168]

thats for the kind words, there are just a few more sampels on my flickr if anyone wants to see somre more sample shots.

I will try build a diffrent studio at home today!

[neohtm]

There's a better settings on these from DIYphotography..you can try on these also..
http://www.diyphotography.net/light-...studio-project

[Alex168]

Well i pretty much achived that effect, but without the light coming from down under, that is what i really wanted to do....could be bothred that time to build that whole lightunderneath! but i m quite happy with the results i got

[WolfEyes]

I love the reflection on the second shot! wow, amazing!