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10/30/2012 11:14:00 PM · #1 |
I searched and didn't see this so if it's already been done, sorry about that.
I've got a big shoot comming up that is 6 people and 2 kids all in one pic... My lights are fine for getting all the adults, but if the kids heads don't come up to the sitting people, they are going to be not lit correct... Sooo in lew of buying yet more equipment, I came up with this idea... had this cloth (file type thingy from Walmart) took the bottom out and cut a hole in the middle section. Lined the thing with aluminum foil, used silver duck tape to secure the foil to it's self and edges. Got a cheap heat bulb holder, and found a dimmer switch that screwed into a light socket. Stuck the bulb inside the box and the holder thing on the outside and screwed the bulb in. Used a 150 Reveal light bulb. Oh and sewed two layers of a matt silky material that feels like a soft box outside, together... slapped er all together, had to use duck tape on the screen but will go back and use velcro so I can change the bulb when I drop er ah when it burns out. TA DA for 20 or slightly less I have a pretty darn stout little soft box, enought to light a couple of kids faces .... Here are pix, I duhhhed up and didn't take shots of the foil insides but, I reckon ya'll can figure that part out! LOL
 file box setting next to the done one
 it had a solid black material covered bottom, which I tossed didn't seem to add any strength since it has a wire cage
 Yeppers a lot of hillbilly engerin' but it works.. My motto has always been if ya can't fix it with duck tape, well it don't need fixin'... OH I've got a piece of pipe insulation holding the bulb steady and off of the back of the box... (I may have to replace that with some Pvc pipe if it melts, but that's all I had on hand today...
The only thing I actually bought was that dimmer switch, the rest was laying around here.. LOL
and in a pitch black room, with it clipped to my book shelf above the desk and me holding my camera here is a shot useing just that...
 Ok so I would't use it for the only light... LOL but not bad for a little fill.... |
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10/30/2012 11:34:08 PM · #2 |
You are so clever, I could of saved heaps of money........lol
but too late!! |
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10/31/2012 01:38:12 AM · #3 |
It's good, nice work and a very clever solution.
For more light output line it with foil, as the black material is just swallowing light that could otherwise go out the front. |
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10/31/2012 06:46:33 PM · #4 |
Good work Katie, looks like a great job - I do 2nd Cory though, black eats light and so lining it all withfoil would probaly be your best bet.
Also, just to take things a little further...you could probably use those folding silver reflector thingies that you put on your car's dash to stop it heating up in summertime as the lining foil. And heat-refective tape, found at any hardware store in the stove section. Basically looks like super-shiny duck tape, and it is adhesive - very much so, it has a backing to it - but it's very strong and durable. |
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10/31/2012 07:50:57 PM · #5 |
Actually Katie said that she did line it with foil, but just didn't show a picture of it.
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10/31/2012 08:02:06 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by jomari:
Actually Katie said that she did line it with foil, but just didn't show a picture of it. |
You know, I missed that! Thanks. :) |
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