My Product Photography Setup

[Rattus79]

I've Mentioned before that I'm a big fan of DIY, especially for lighting stuff, so Whilst I was shooting a couple of pairs of sunnies to sell on ebay, I thought I'd grab a shot of my setup for y'all.

It consists of a music stand with a roll of paper (I use a roll that's designed for medical beds as a single use sheet)
and 2x foam vege box soft boxes. The scrims are a white packing material that came on our couch. seems to throw a nice even light with little or no colour casting.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38457527/sunnies/IMGP5000.jpg

And the results:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38457527/sunnies/IMGP5001.jpg

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38457527/sunnies/IMGP4995.jpg

[Dan40D]

Results look great and cost virtually nothing, I love DIY. I made a similar setup using some old corflute signs from work. What speedlights are you using??

[Duane Pipe]

Good one Greg. My only cc is the punched paper marks on the left in the first image, good use of every day stuff:th3:

[Rattus79]

Results look great and cost virtually nothing, I love DIY. I made a similar setup using some old corflute signs from work. What speedlights are you using??

Yeah. you can do some interesting stuff with core flute! If I didn't have a bunch of these floating around I would go looking for just that!

Lights are a sigma 540 and a yongnuo 462 - don't get one of these. Get the 460 mk2. much better flash. the 462's output is crap. I run the sigma at an eighth and the yongnuo flat out.

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Good one Greg. My only cc is the punched paper marks on the left in the first image, good use of every day stuff:th3:

Thanks Duane,
If it was for something more then selling the such. ies on eBay, I would have cloned it out.

As it is, all I did was whiten the whites a little, crop and export.

[Admiral]

That's one of the best budget setups I've seen, very clever. =0)

[Rattus79]

Thanks Admiral, I've since replaced the paper back drop with a pure white packaging material that does not have the textures and does not wrinkle either. it's also nice as it reflects the light around and gives a nicer balance of light too.

I've also seen setups like this that use the diffuser from a overhead fluroescent light as a diffuser for a softbox that also worked well. he'd painted the whole thing black so to not loose all that light through the box too.