Hello everybody!

So maybe you want to get good photographs of some smaller things you’re going to sell on eBay, like a mobilephone, mp3 player or something like that. Or then what if you’re taking product photographs of smaller products like drinks or fruits and you don’t have a studio?

Well, then you could simply improvise and build your own studio, a macrostudio!

It’s really cheap actually. All you need is …

You got all that? Great! Let’s start building.

Step 1:
Cut out three sides of the cardboardbox. (see images below)

Step 2:
Cut and tape the white translucent paper on the sides that you juts cut out.

Step 3:
Put the background paper in place, you can use a bit of tape to kind of “hang it up” in the back of the box.

The result should look a bit like this:

As lighting equipment you can use anything from a flash, to a normal desktop lamp to a 300-500W construction light, just make sure most of the light passes through the translucent paper or something else that diffuses it, to get soft or almost nonexistant shadows … rather than strong, sharp and fugly shadows.
I myself used two 300W construction lights.

Here’s my setup:

And here are some of my best results:

I had this idea before, but when I read Strobists blog article on it, it really inspired me and pushed me to do this!

Also check out this short video I made of the macrostudio, or the “Poor Man’s Macrostudio” as I named it.

I will probably make a new and better video about it once I get my workstation up and running again.