Do it yourself macro studio
Heya fellas! 
I just made my very own 5$ macro studio.
How I did it:
1. Take a paperbox and cut a hole in the left, right and topside.
2. Cover the cut in holes with white paper (I combined 4 Papers to cover one side and glued them to the frame)
3. Get a thicker (possibly colored) paper for your background and pin it to the box.
4. Setup two strobes or lamps to the left and right (top not really necessary) of the box.
5. Put sth in your selfmade Macrostudio
6. Put your camera on a tripod and fire waway (u need longer exposures if you use lamps instead of flashes)
The Macro studio looks sth like this:
http://www.diyphotography.net/homestudio/super-simple-light-tent
And the results can look as nice as this:
I just made my very own 5$ macro studio.
How I did it:
1. Take a paperbox and cut a hole in the left, right and topside.
2. Cover the cut in holes with white paper (I combined 4 Papers to cover one side and glued them to the frame)
3. Get a thicker (possibly colored) paper for your background and pin it to the box.
4. Setup two strobes or lamps to the left and right (top not really necessary) of the box.
5. Put sth in your selfmade Macrostudio
6. Put your camera on a tripod and fire waway (u need longer exposures if you use lamps instead of flashes)
The Macro studio looks sth like this:
http://www.diyphotography.net/homestudio/super-simple-light-tent
And the results can look as nice as this:
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
― Edward Weston
― Edward Weston
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"No I'm not.... Ooh yes I am. Crap."
Nice work, but you've forgotten to set black/white points...
(That's what DavidTO always tells me, now it's my turn:-)
Hehe
isn't spanning over the entire dynamic range?! I dont believe in
setting black and whitepoint like that. I rely on my dirty & free
underfeatured editing software and my screen. If anything looks
fishy I'll blame it on the uncalibrated monitor, or on viewers taste
― Edward Weston
No, in fact I wasn't. it wese my weary eyes to which it looked just a little itty-bitty flat (really, it was more like a hint of flatness). So I decided to give it a little bit of good David's medicine, and it indeed has changed, ever so slightly, but in the direction I wanted.
I simply used curves (in luminosity mode) in the "show clipping" mode and set up the white and black points to where it showed. Since the points were on the primary subjects (peppers themselves) I didn't hunt for more specific loications.
Good link Manfr3d! Light tents are a great way to bring out detail in small, and especially shiny things. The link you have has particularly easy and inexpensive suggestions.
I've even made an impromptu light tent by setting my backup tripod on top of the kitchen table and wrapping around the legs with tissue paper. Doesn't take much, just fiddling around with the lamp/flash to get it right. Pennytech can give good results:
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