My Amateur Art & Photo Blog

Beer Light Tent I had totally forgot that before moving house earlier this year that I had purchased a light tent on amazon . What's a light tent/cube you ask?, check the link on amazon for details.  Anyways, I thought I had the perfect excuse to dust it off and take this historic photo. Yep, it's my last Sam Summer of year, I have finally ran out of the beers I stocked up on a few months back. Oh well until next year, cheers! Taken with the Pentax K200d, handheld with MF I selectively focused the sweet spot on Samual Adams himself using my  Sigma 70mm F/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens , contrast adjusted in post processing. Lit from above no flash fired.

Apple or Moon? So this week my new photographer toy/gadget arrived from Amazon, a Light Cube . If you haven't heard of what a light cube is or why you might need one check out this article which talks about how to make one for under 10 bucks. I didn't have the confidence in my DIY skills (or the free personal time) so if you don't either you can source an inexpensive one on Ebay or Amazon for less than 20 bucks as I did. My first attempt at taking shots with it was this morning with only 1 light source, I grabbed an apple from the fruit basket and shot away. The finished photo for today was taken with the Pentax K200d and the Sigma 70mm F/2.8 EX DG Macro Lens , handheld, with on-camera IS, no camera flash was used. The subject was simply lit by one lamp through the right side of light cube. Converted to sepia in Photoshop. Light Cube setup side lit here by a desktop light Here's a look at my setup, I really need to source another lamp so that harsh shadows aren't b...