this is my second try with my homemade Light Box. For this new picture I took a picture of a dish prepared by my wife, stuffed zucchini (it was very good for the record). I thought it could be a good start with a food picture.

The Zucchini have a green color; I took a plate with almost the same color + a piece of Swedish bread to make the contrast with all the green color.

Material for the shooting

• Ironing board to place your lightbox on
• 2 Flashes in my case Vivita 285HV – for the light
• Pocketwizard Plus II – to trigger the flashes
• Sigma 105 mm 2.8f
• Nikon D200

On the first shoot, I tried several positions of the camera and of the subject, as you can below. At the end I select the position from the top.

105 mm - 1/250 f14

105 mm - 1/250 - f14

Schema of the pictures

Set up from the front

Set up from the left

Set up from top

Final

Zuccini Plate 1

Materials needed for the light-box

• A box
• A sheet of white paper for the background
• A sheet of “Translucide” paper
• Cutter

Now you have the materials, you just have to make holes on the tree faces of your box, the left /right for the light and the top for the shoot (or to add some object / throw object inside). Keep the bottom with the carton to stabilise the box. For the left and right, keep some margin to help you to fix the sheet of “Translucide” paper.

When is done, you can add the background (white paper), fold it to fit the back of the box (make a curve at the bottom). Fix the paper with some tape, not too strongly to allow you to replace it easily.

After you just have to put the Flash (left/right) at 50 cm from the box and the ligth will be send through the “Translucide” paper.

In my case, I change several time the place of the flashes to be able to get some different atmosphere.

Material for the shooting

• A table to put your lightbox
• 2 Flashes in my case Vivita 285HV – fo the ligth
• Pocketwizard Plus II – to trigger the flashes
• Sigma 105 mm 2.8f
• Nikon D200

Schema of pictures

this is the light-box in action

Some results

Tomatoes

Flash McQueen