My afternoon Project

ishamy · 10 Feb 2012 at 17:06

Well this afternoon I decided to try a bit of DIY. After an hour with a box left over for moving house, tape and paper this was born!

Very Modest Light Box by M+M Morrison, on Flickr

And here's two of the first shots, no PP on these, maybe a bit of balancing with the flash.

Canon AV-1 by M+M Morrison, on Flickr

Nifty Fifty by M+M Morrison, on Flickr

ishamy · 10 Feb 2012 at 17:25

Thanks, yea there is loads of room for improvement and practise on placement/power of the flash. At the end of the day I think it's great especially for just being a passing of time project

Now then, gota find some more things to take pictures of!

ishamy · 19 Feb 2012 at 18:51

Awesome results there. Did yous do any PP on these? As you can see mine had a grey tinge to the background and both of you guys have a more white.

Love the nifty one of the best lens I have (out of 4) haha

ishamy · 19 Feb 2012 at 20:40

Cool will have t have another play tomorrow, got a sigma 10-20 coming tomorrow so that's a good excuse to get the box out again

ishamy · 19 Feb 2012 at 23:35

I wouldnt use ttl for the flash, go manual. 1st shot is over exposed, camera maybe getting confused with the white background. Manual will give you more control over the exposure. Are you diffusing the flash with anything?

ishamy · 19 Feb 2012 at 23:42

Haha cool, well its deffo over exposed. I spent ages experimeting on flash poistions and powers to see what each movent and setting did until I was getting what I thought I wanted.

I'm a beginner really so maybe there is a better way of finding what settings to use but I was just going for it and playing around.

ishamy · 21 Feb 2012 at 15:13

The most recent shot from the lightbox, my new lens

Sigma 10-20mm by M+M Morrison, on Flickr

ishamy · 25 Feb 2012 at 18:43

Haha cool yea thinking of making improvements to it. Maybe a bigger box/Perspex for the bottom.

The sigma is great haven't had much of a chance to get out with it yet though