On the camera side, you’ll have to deal with flare coming from the relatively huge surface that is being lit. While taking such image may look easy it hides a few challenges. The same effect is shown on the left in a peppermint leaf image made by Ciro Boro. The light going through the fruit reveal its texture. OK, the Packman thing is what happens when you light through thin slices of fruit. This of course will not help you browse your slides, but it can surely kick on the next section: What’s With The Pacman Thing? A similar setup using transparent glass was the base for the infamous Corona shot. Use Flash For Lighting – you can use one or more small flashes to light the table. Simply turn the box on its side and you have an instant softbox. If it is portable and have enough power it can be used as a soft box. Make It Double As A Softbox – yes, that’s right. Don’t have a wine crate? Good! Simply use the cardboard box you were going to throw away. You don’t even have to glue the plastic on. Can move it easily from location to location. There are other options, though – use a wine crate instead of an old desk and you – A. Make It Portable – Felix used a desk which made his construction a full-fledged light table. OK, the Desktop Light really rocks, however, here are some ideas that play on the theme. How To Make It Portable, Sofboxy And Flashy And don’t tell me that digital can do it better… OK, you can tell, just don’t start a film Vs. This is how the final product looks like.Īnd this is how it looks like when it is used to examine slides (yea, those square things that used to capture excellent quality images. (You can use more lights if you want to, this will give your table the option to double as a softbox as well) The best options is to place the lights in parallel, pointing to the sides of the box in opposite directions. Last step is to install the fluorescent lights. Another more permanent, yet time consuming, option is to spray paint the internal with silver paint. The tinfoil really helps to get the diffusion right and avoid any hotspots. Now glue some tinfoil on the internals of the box. Once the table top is cut, install it back. You can take the board of the hinges to make it easier. This is, as Felix mentioned really easy if you have the right tools. It should be as big as you can without going outside of the underlying box. Advertisementsįirst thing, mark the size of the hole you’d like to cut from the table. I’ll switch to quick and dirty hacks in the end. Now those instructions are for a real table. Here is how you go about building the table. Thin foil, tape, glue, screws, electrical switch, etc (few dollars).Plexi is veryĮxpensive so I’ve cut a part of these opaque white diffuser for ceiling White piece of plastic to diffuse the light ($12).Table or desk ($15) Found at the local eco-centre (a user-friendly dump) – That two points for environment friendliness right there.Let’s see how Felix approached the light table project, materials first: Felix Never-Break-Really-Permanent Light Table
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