Cheapo lightbox

[Byuphoto]

In case you guys want to shoot your cameras
Just a big cardboard box. I taped the flaps to give it more depth. The background is just craft foam in various colors. I need some bigger pieces so as to have a wider background. I use two flashes but two desk or work lights could be used. especially the clip on kind with the new daylight spiral flourescent

This angle shows the holes I cut and the tissue paper taped over it. I need to find some white parachute silk or ripstop as the tissue paper is not very durable or cat proof

here is a side view, the peanuts are optional
I used the pieces I cut out to stand in front of the flash to keep the light off the lens. You can point the flash forward to have a dark background or backwards for a high key. You can also feather the light for more depth of the shadows.
I hope this helps

[grizzz]

Peanuts are never optional . Do you by chance have a pic of the flower in the box. I have seen a few different versions of this done here now and the results have been great. I'd love to see what came of this one as well. thanks for sharing, grizz.

[Byuphoto]

[grizzz]

Thanks, very nice shots . I think I know what I'm going to be practicing this weekend....

[TravisM]

Now that is cleaver and gives great results. The operator is not too bad either eh?

[Byuphoto]

It helps if you have a handheld lightmeter. I use a Polaris flash/incident

[Wimpler]

Yeah, my light meter has no flash meter.  I test my setups with a crappy point and shoot.  I put the setup in my darkroom, set the shutter speed to 1 second, then I trigger the flashes during that one second, take a look at teh digi shot and guess how many stops I overexposed ... Don't want to much film and with no DSLR or flash meter this is the easiest way to predict results I have found..

Your results are certainly very good.