Lightbox Round 1

For taking pictures of small objects, a lightbox seemed like it could be useful, and it seemed like a pretty simple project to take a stab at. The kids actually seemed pretty excited about it as well, even though they had no idea what it was before hand. Apparently the name sounds pretty exciting. The first step was to find a box. Thanks to ordering Lego sets on Amazon, that was pretty easy to find.

The one item we needed to buy was a piece of poster board for the interior. That was placed inside it as a continuous curve. After that we placed a plain white sheet around it and put a light overhead. In retrospect a thinner piece of fabric and a brighter light would have worked better, but this worked as a reasonable proof of concept.

The obvious next step was to take some test shots. The first subject chosen by the kids was this hula girl.

This shot of an AT-AT was my favorite of the shoot.

This setup also looked kind of cool when I pulled back a bit. Don't look if you don't want the magic destroyed. But it's not that magical, so I'd go ahead and look.

We used a small enough box that not everything we tried to take shots of really fit, but they were still fun to experiment with.

Maybe next time we'll get a bigger box.