The Royal Family

While I was following my typical morning routine of blogging, reading, emailing, and chatting, I stumbled across a blog entry by strobist stating the easy way to do food photography. I really believe that Mr. Strobist, if you will is a very smart man, and talented photographer, and his entry completely intrigued me. He essentially build a light box, out of a regular box and some tissue paper. It creates a very soft, even beautiful light. I have worked in many studios and these same kind of contraptions are used everyday. So of course, me being me, took one look around my room, and turned my old computer box into a light box, and I was on my way to a new photo shoot.

While in college, my roommate studied engineering. He had to take numerous classes building, measuring, cutting, sawing, welding, throwing, hammering, and so on and so forth. Essentially every single class that I would fail, because I never measure. In fact I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler. I am convinced this is the main reason my roommate and I get along so well, we balance each other out. He is technical, I am not. I digress, while Adam was taking all these manly man classes, he built an absolutely beautiful chess set. Every time I see this chess set out, I am always amazed that one person made it, and I am living with him. So in honor of Adam's hard work, and my motivation, I made a simple still life. I used my new $2 light box, and I think it came out rather successfully.

This light box can come in handy in so many different photo shoots. It is essentially seamless, and when it comes to reflective objects, all photographers know they need that. I only used two sheets of tissue paper on each side of the box. It only took me about twenty minutes to cut and tape the tissue paper in place. I suggest taking your time with the tissue paper, because I did rip a piece rather successfully with in the first three minutes. But all in all, it was incredibly easy to make, I really suggest anyone that has a little time on their hands to give it a try. It was a nice test shoot for a Tuesday morning. Here is a behind the scenes shot of my set up also, to help give a better visual.

Food is Art is Life