I've wanted a light box for a long time, but spending $100 or more on a set always seemed like so much for something so basic. Today I found a great tutorial on Youtube that showed how to make one out of a cardboard box, some white fabric, and poster board. I already had the box and the fabric so I ran up to my local office supply store and picked up poster board along with 2 clamping lights.
So here are a few shots of some of my polishes. I really just grabbed a few that were handy and started taking pictures. My goal is going to be to catalog all my polishes, but that might take awhile... not a bad problem to have though.
Liquid Sky Lacquer - My Squishy
Dark Blue Jelly with small blue hex and medium white square glitter
Deborah Lippmann - Lady Sings the Blues
Untried
Zoya Pixie Dust - (from left) Beatrix, Solange, Destiny
Textured
Illamasqua - Scorch
White Cream
Dry time is FOREVER
All in all I'm pleased with the outcome. I'll have to work on the placement of the lights and maybe adding a third overhead. I'm excited about being able to take nice pics of my manicures at midnight if I want to.
Your light box works great. I've got a black background in mine, and it really helped my pictures.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll try a black one too - good idea, thanks!
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