Reddit reviews Neewer 24x24 inch/60x60 cm Photo Studio Shooting Tent Light Cube Diffusion Soft Box Kit with 4 Colors Backdrops (Red Dark Blue Black White) for Photography

I find this light to be very effective, not to mention pretty cheap, and I like that it has a few different "temperatures" of light and has more than enough flexibility for me to get it in just the right spot.

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I also rely heavily on this head magnifier as my vision isn't what it once was. It's super cheap and works great.

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I find that Army Painter brushes work really well and cost much less than most of the other brushes I like. I particularly like their detail brushes. I don't think I could paint eyes without my beloved "The Psycho" brush.

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I love this light box. Also very cheap (noticing a trend, I'm always looking for a deal, lol). These acrylic display boards fit nicely inside the light box and give photos a cool, polished look.

this is really interesting!

I always prefer DIY solutions, but it's worth saying that a small lightbox is really inexpensive (~$20) and can be easily found on amazon.

Nylon, ASA, and polycarbonate all need an enclosure and will warp like ABS or worse. Copolyester is another term for PETG.

There are cheap enclosure options if you just want to experiment and don't want to invest a lot of money.

https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC

$20 for a stack of cut acrylic? You've got to do a much better job at explaining the value proposition here. Especially when the average person is not going to have any idea what it is you're selling.

Also - pictures, pictures, pictures. The average person will spend 5 seconds on your website tops, read 1 sentence (the heading), look at the pics, and leave. Your pictures look like they were taken in your backyard in the dark. Go buy:

• One of these pop up studios: https://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=sr_1_1?s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1474099811&sr=1-1&keywords=pop+up+photo+booth
  
  
• 3 of these clamp lamps: https://www.amazon.com/Woods-8-5-Inch-Reflector-150-Watt-6-Foot/dp/B000HHQ94C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474099983&sr=8-1&keywords=Clamp+Light+with+Grip+work+light+reflector
  
  
• And a pack of these daylight bulbs: https://www.amazon.com/EcoSmart-5000K-Spiral-Daylight-4-Pack/dp/B0042UN1U0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1474100072&sr=8-3&keywords=daylight+bulb
  
  
• And download paint.net (or torrent photoshop) to edit your photos. You want amazon style photos - big, bright, clear, no/white background, and great detail.
  
  Also, work on your shopify website. Spend a few hours - its not hard to modify an existing theme to look good. You need some color and a more clean layout. The site does not look professional. Why would a customer trust you if your store front looks amateur? They'll leave before they even look at your products.
  
  If you believe in this niche, great. Make the website slick, get good pictures, think about why YOU would purchase these and write up some good copy, and then go drum up some business by participating in a related forum / subreddit / listserv / whatever. Is this actually a problem people need solving? You'll find out.
  
  P.S. I know those blacklight photos look cool and all, but do your customers actually care? Are you going to use this product under blacklight? If not, you're probably turning off anyone older than highschool age.
  
  P.P.S. Stop referring to yourself as cardistry-cards in the copy. The hyphen isn't doing you any favors. Shorten to CC or Cardistry if you're even going to do the 3rd person thing.

Thank you!! As for the light box I got one from Amazon, it's all white and it comes with different colored backdrops but I just went to Walmart and got a felt one. The material that come with the kit kinda suck lol



Neewer 24x24 inch/60x60 cm Photo Studio Shooting Tent Light Cube Diffusion Soft Box Kit with 4 Colors Backdrops (Red Dark Blue Black White) for Photography https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_gylDCbRY8VVMN

Also, I don't love that light box. It provides light but it isn't a surface itself that looks good in photographs, hence the white fabric on the bottom. Have the light box sides in the background works...if the corners/edges aren't in the photos, because they look super tacky. I would be willing to buy another, bigger and better light box, but I doubt that make sense as I would still be left with my issue for bigger items like tops and dresses. This is that lightbox, just fyi: Neewer 24x24 inch/60x60 cm Photo... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GKGGICC?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I used this tent when I first got my MK3S about 6 weeks ago and it worked beautifully. It was fully inside the tent, including the filament on top of course. It measures 60cmX60cm.

I just routed the power cable through the corner of the tent opening.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00GKGGICC/

Thanks for the compliment! What mini did you just finish?

Yea I think I took the pictures too close though. You can REALLY see every little stroke, a bit harder to sell the illusion. Just for your reference I used 2 of these lamps (I got 2 for $25) and I used these bulbs and this light tent and a point a shoot camera I had laying around. It is like 16ish megapixels and full HD...

this is what I ordered. The chroma backgrounds are garbage though.

I will say that I bought this light box and it was excellent value. I was going to build my own but after considering the trips to different stores for supplies and the time and effort that it would take, the $35 just made sense. I am lucky in that my husband already had a couple photography lights but really any bright lights should work! I sell vintage and antique items of varying sizes and materials and so far so good!

Thanks! I'm sure you'll be fine with that. Probably has loads of features I wish my 10 year old one did lol. Theres a picture of a samurai trooper in the snow (with his gun) on my IG where I talk about upgrading my Camera. anything before that is probably on the old coolpix. Main tips I can give you;

1. Whenever you can, shoot on a tripod (I'm still using a slightly lop sided $20 plastic one thats probably even older than my old camera lol) and (also whenever you can) use either a remote or the timer shooting mode for actually taking the pictures so you're not touching the camera when its taking the picture. That will give you a HUGE clarity increase.
   
   
2. Your camera should let you manually set white balance. Do it every time you change your lighting. Use a nice white piece of printer paper for the camera to reference. Make sure your holding it as close to the object youre shooting as possible when you do this.
   
   
3. Great lighting is the key to a good shot (Combined with proper light balance). If you can, buy a set of mini/table photography studio lights. Turn off all your lights in the room of your shoot and just use those. Better, more natural color light. And position them in a natural way. Don't set the (VERY BRIGHT) light directly on them from the front. Think about the sun and lights in your house, they're probably up above you. Hold/set your lights above aiming down. Use your cameras screen to figure out your lighting. Watch the screen and move the lights around until it looks good. I use these. Kind of shitty TBH but they do the job. Find something similar if not these specific ones. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DP65ARO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
   
   
4. Also building/buying one of these (They're really not hard to build, but Im lazy and its only $20 with some useful, but cheap shit, extras) and combining it with the studio lights will do WONDERS. I had these two things long before I upgraded my camera. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GKGGICC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What was your total cost for the box? My girlfriend and i were going to build one for her father for Christmas. but when we saw how cheep they were (http://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1449720293&sr=8-3&keywords=24%22+light+box) we just decided we would buy one. It seems like all that effort would only be worth it if you could make it for under $5 or if you just really needed a craft project.

Quite a few actually aren't too bad. Yeah, you can tell they were taken with a phone or low resolution camera, but they do give plenty of detail.

Free route to improve photos: North facing light. Use light from the window/s facing North! It's the most diffused (in this hemisphere lol) and therefore best natural light that won't make things glow or end up as grainy (which outside of being a phone camera, is a lighting issue)... also wiping off the camera part with a soft cloth before shooting. Fingerprints, dust, stuff gets on the surface and can make things hazy and not focus right

Cheapest route: this will help with light diffusion. You will need two lights, one at each side, and cheap little desk lamps like this will do well and allow you to move the light angel as you need. These work well too, you know, whichever is cheaper and easier to get. I know places like Home Depot have the clamp lights, but I'm not sure the price, here I think the small ones are $8 which isn't bad.

Next cheapest: phone upgrade or point and shoot camera! Nothing fancy, not sure how you'd get for close ups because I haven't used a point and shoot in years. I know there's silly attachments for phones that you can add telephoto lenses to or probably macro if they have those now. I've only seen iphone stuff so far though, not sure if it'll work with others

Most expensive route: DSLR + macro lens (or filters, because filters are cheaper lol)

I found that even a very inexpensive tabletop photo kit with a lighting tent and using high-color-temp studio CFL bulbs makes a world of difference. Personally, I am using this one- and it was well worth the $50 investment.

http://www.amazon.com/Neewer%C2%AE-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC

A digital SLR camera (even a lower-end one) helps, rather than shooting with a smartphone, but the newest iPhones can definitely do the job in a pinch in my experience.

If your low on cash and just want the box without the lights
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=psdc_3444581_t2_B00TIAH33U

a black or white poster board would work fine.

Or you could get one of those pop-up photobooths

Depends how serious you want to get.

A light tent produces high key shadowless images. Most online stores do their product work this way. It's fast and easy, but offers very little artistic impression. If you're looking to do more high end beverage, check out Karl Taylor's tutorial.

Thank you! Yeah, no problem. Here's my janky "studio" setup in our spare bedroom. Light box, lights, flash + trigger

Thanks for the ideas. Here's more info:

Printing in a closed garage, no windows.

Printer is shrouded with a photo light cube to keep temp and eliminate drafts.

Material:PLA

Print Temp: 195C

Bed Temp: 60C

Just a friendly suggestion:

Try putting your subject inside a light tent like this for optimal shadow free lighting:

https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1526234323&sr=8-5&keywords=light+tents+for+photography

I'd look at a lightbox like this one. https://smile.amazon.com/Neewer-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1502987460&sr=8-14&keywords=lightbox

Exactly. They also have lightbox styles such as this one. You can even buy 1 of these, cut up off each side and mount them in front of your lights. You want them to be a few inches off of the bulb to get quality diffusion and prevent the diffuser from melting/catching fire (be careful! Some lights get very hot). If you need smaller lights as well, Amazon has lots of all-in-one kits such this one

A photo tent like this one will do quite a bit :D And it's also really great no matter what to keep drafts off your prints and protect the printer from dust.
Personally I prefer the shower curtain tent because it's easier to access the printer, but to make that you need PVC pipes, magnets and a sewing machine. Alternatively, a real enclosure like a box of plexiglass or something will be even better. You can even put accoustic foam on the "walls" to further dampen it :D


Start with the feet though - you can print those out right now, and PLA is perfectly fine :D

Created a DRIPLESS COFFEE MUG that just went SALE from $14.99 to $9.99 for BLACK FRIDAY https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=psdc_3444581_t3_B000BFYXGG

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First time product designer + first time Amazon seller here = this is hard.

Usually work over 65 hrs a week in film industry and cooked Thanksgiving for my family also.

I'm so tired I could eat a horse

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Beautiful.

Here's a cheap lightbox I picked up from Amazon a few days ago. I got the 24"x24" because I'm bad at reading, but there's a few smaller ones that are pretty well priced.

You're welcome!

There's several ways you could go about it. Without investing in more equipment, you may be able to bounce it off a white ceiling.

Otherwise, you could buy a cheap softbox that goes over the speedlight to diffuse it, and then either hand hold it or set it down pointing at the subject.

Or, you can get a lightbox that you put your subject in, and shoot the flash through a side/top of the box. This method ensures that the background will be white, if that's what you're going for.

Thanks for the reply.

I was looking at the Canon EF 100mm f2.8 Macro (non IS) and the Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 USM Macro Lens.

I found someone selling the 60mm lens for $300 in what appears to be good condition. The 100mm lens I found used from a camera store for $475+tax. So I think I might go with the 60mm one because I can get it for a lot cheaper.

I was also thinking of getting two lights for $60. My current lighting might be good enough, but these look more professional too.

CowboyStudio Photography Table Top Photo Studio Lighting Kit - 2 Light Kit

https://www.amazon.ca/CowboyStudio-Photography-Table-Studio-Lighting/dp/B002SOBPH8/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1462686629&sr=8-5&keywords=cowboy+lights

And then a light box for $42:
https://www.amazon.ca/Neewer%C2%AE-Shooting-Diffusion-Backdrops-Photography/dp/B00GKGGICC/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1462686767&sr=1-4&keywords=light+box

Then I might buy some better fabric and maybe some tile type surfaces also.

Will I be all set with this gear?