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Do it yourself Macro Photo studio

I don't know where to file this, but it was interesting to me.... this how-to walks you through a cheap way to make good closeup photos... Basically they have you construct a light tent from a card b…

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I don't know where to file this, but it was interesting to me.... this how-to walks you through a cheap way to make good closeup photos... Basically they have you construct a light tent from a card board box (cut large openings in the sides and use white tracing paper to diffuse the light and posterboard for backgrounds.)

The idea here is that for those good closeups of small items being bathed in light is the ideal, but a direct flash usually is not good, diffuse light is the ideal and this setup does nicely.