DIY Photo Studio

To sell online, e.g. auctions like eBay, we need to have great product pictures. It's not worthy to build up a pro photo studio w/ all high end stuffs. Starters don't need that.

've been followed this page and grabbed some ingredients:

• Plastic box, forgot how many L big.
• 2 flood light each 150W.
• Color A4 papers.
• Unused 2MP Panasonic F-7 camera with leica lens.
• Tripod.

Kinda making a mini one w/ box hanging w/ the color paper to make a edgeless background. 2 lights one left and right side to 'cancel' the shadows, and the camera built in flash from the front to balance everything. The followings are the progress:





^ Sample shot on perfume.



^ How the color paper placed trying to have edgeless background.



^ 902SH mobile with flash.



^ 902SH mobile without flash.



^ Expecting harmonic tone.



^ The reflection of orange background paper dyed the mobile.



^ Side shot. Out focus, may be too close.



^ A more 3D angle.



^ The orange color seems ruined all my sample shots.



^ The 150W floodlight from local supermarket. It is not a high-end ones so it's yellow and the yellow wavelength isn't pure. Very hot on the bulb!



^ Tripod. I got it from workplace sales incentive. The only item I felt satisfied in the whole settings.



^ The box might be too small also the paper. It highly restricted the flexibility of adjustments.



^ The big setting at the bedroom.



^ 100 pages of color papers. 5 colors. AUD$2.00. It's too thin!



^ The package of the floodlights for reference.

^ The plastic box initially planned to be the 'frame'. The transparency of the material might be not enough. It forced me to move the red hot floodlights closer on both sides which I felt the heat made the box wall deform a bit.


Conclusion:

The results are not too bad but I don't think it's significantly improving the quality of pictures at the moment. The first thing could do is multiply the sizes of the box (change to something like DIY metal frame mounted with thin white nylon cloths, use large thick color papers for background and it should be in same color tone as the product.