Cheap Light Boxes-Build Your Own
A collection of cheap do it yourself light boxes and product photo techniques.
Here’s a tutorial for a home setup with detailed Photoshop CS techniques
using curves to improve product photo shots. This is a good primer for Ebay sellers.
The Strobist blog has plenty of tips for shooting products. Here’s one with some excellent tips for shooting shiny objects.
He also has some great tips for making a cheap $10 light box for shooting macro photos using a cardboard box and some posterboard and a single light source.
Here is the cheapest DIY lightbox setup of all. Using 5 sheets of paper and a single light bulb this tutorial shows you how to make a cheap lightbox in about 20 minutes.
A slightly more expensive light box version using an Ikea laundry hamper can fit larger objects and folds neatly after use.
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Canon Powershot G7 Prosumer Compact Digital Camera
It has been almost two years since Canon’s last release of a G series camera, the G6. The G series was once one of the best prosumer level digital cameras in an era when digital SLR’s were at least a couple thousand dollars.
The G6 and now Canon G7 fall into the “bridge” camera category. It “bridged” the gulf between an expensive full on digital SLR and the compact consumer digital slr’s. These cameras often had decent pixel counts and a higher zoom than the regular consumer models but were still lacking the full feature and functional set of a true digital slr. Things like full manual control, swappable lenses, extensive metering options, noise free high ISO shooting speeds were missing from even the best bridge cameras. Still, users could get most of the dslr’s pertinent features for about a third of the price of a true slr. Cameras like the G6 were good bang for the buck.
No longer. Since then entry level dslr’s have dropped by at least half in price and digital cameras have fragmented and developed separate niches. Ultra zooms, pocket compacts, waterproof and wide angles all can do specific things better than the all in…
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