Got to reading a tutorial on how to build a light tent, and decided to give it a go. Locating a box was easy, as was hunting down some ‘bristol board’ to make the inside all white, as was cutting it all together. Sourcing lights was harder, as no readily available desk-sized lamp would take [...]
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So I read this tutorial for taking photographs of ‘stuff’, specifically the glass section, and decided to give it a go. Not having any sort of proper lightbox, but wanting to keep to a single light source for the best look, I wound up wedging my trusty maglite through some junkmail and resting the contraption [...]
Written by a 5 year old. Drawn by his 29 year old brother. It’s immense. Read it!
So today I picked up my shiny new 60mm f2.8 macro lens. I proceeded to spend about 3 hours taking photos of shit. You can see the results by clicking the below image. Internet!
You need to watch, at an absolute minimum, the first 42 seconds of this. Then the genius of it will hit you.