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Two lights dramatic portrait

Hey,Nice to see you guy reading me again,if this is your first time here ,you could register to my free Email RSS feed so you wouldn’t miss the next tutorial.I saw this kind of picture in a post written by a great studio photography named Robert Seale.In his article he wrote about how he photographed Lance Armstrong in his studio.As I don’t like Lans to much (I ride the bike,but don’t like the drugs thing in his sport),but I got the sympathy for his work in the research about cancer.Back to our tutorial,Robert used some big lights in his Lans shootout,180cm softboxes that I don’t thing the most of you guys keep at home to get really amazing shot.I asked my self how can I do it in the budget way that I like so much?So instead of the 180cm octagon softbox I’ll try to use the 30cm DIY shoebox softbox that I made a couple of weeks ago to get “similar” results.

P.S – If you get Lans to your studio I recommend to hide the shoebox softboxes and try something else…

Lets see what we got and how I made the shots.

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What I used for the shots:

  • Two DIY small softboxes made from shoebox.
  • Two tripods (left- studio tripod and right- camera tripod) .
  • Flashes triggered by : left flash-cable and right flash-radio trigger (didn’t had the batteries to operate the left side receiver,so used a cable).
  • Two Canon speedlites : left-Canon 580EXII and right-Canon 550EX (you can use any flash with manual power settings).

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Amazing product photography 1$ technique!-Part II

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Great product photographs in no time and priceless look,this is what you are going to learn in this tutorial!

If you are not familiar with part I of this tutorial take a look in this link amazing product photography where you’ll get an idea about how I did  that setup and the basic two light posing atrategies I talked about .

In part II of amazing product photography using  the DIY small softbox (based on a  shoe box)  will cover another two light setups for some differnt effect,so lets see what its all about.

This is one of the shots you’ll  get in this tutorial,so get in read and DIY!

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DIY Project-20cm*20cm SoftBox+Gird for small flashes

Remember the photograph from the teaser?

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You want to get started?!!

Here’s what you need :

  • carton board (I used the leftovers from the DIY SoftBox project)
  • a good pair of scisors
  • one marker pen to mark the misures
  • Big Ruler (40cm or more)
  • Strong scotch tape
  • An utility knife
  • Black corrugated plastic sheeting (thats how think it is called-please inform me otherwise)

So lets do it!

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The complete DIY SoftBox 40cm*40cm (for less than 10$!!!)

DIY 40cm*40cm Softbox from scratch.

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Here’s what you need :

  • 2 carton boards 100cm*70cm
  • a good pair of scissors
  • one marker pen to mark the measures
  • Ruler (40cm or more)
  • A measuring tape
  • Tin foil (to act as the reflector in the softbox)
  • Strong scotch tape
  • An utility knife

Dig’n and start the project

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DIY SoftBox 40cm*40cm for Less Than 10 bucks – Part II

This is what you’ll finally get!!!

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After building the simple to do DIY soft box,it is time to make the “speed ring” for the soft box and put the diffuser on.

What you need here is simple:

  • 40cm*40cm DIY soft box (you did it in part I)
  • A 10 cm diameter pipe :can be a plastic pipe,plastic jar of anything stiff enough to hold the soft box and about 20-25cm long.
  • A good Sellotape (masking tape).

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DIY SoftBox 40cm*40cm for Less Than 10 bucks – Part I

Hey,in part I of this popular tutorial we’ll deal with the construction of the box itself.

So lets start working.

Here’s what you need :

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  • 2 carton boards 100cm*70cm
  • a good pair of scisors
  • one marker pen to mark the misures
  • Ruler (40cm or more)
  • A measuring tape
  • Tin foil (to act as the reflector in the softbox)
  • Strong scotch tape
  • An utility knife

Lets start:

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