[07] Lights on

I finished the project 04 (Light box) saying I needed to improve the lighting. At that time I had no idea how to do this effectively but I knew I wanted 3 things :

• The most uniform color temperature possible.
• A powerful yet even lighting.
• Something that take as little place as possible once stored.

I could have used 2 or 3 desk lamps with the same light bulbs but it’s clearly not the best option for obvious reasons. It became clear to me that LED was the perfect solution, and as a bonus it a quite a cheap choice.

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I designed some kind of a lighting blanket which can be rolled up during storage. For a strong and even lighting, I though about a good way to get as many LEDs as possible on the whole surface.

Building it was kind of easy, but really time consuming. I think I spent about 3h just for the wiring! Think about it: there is a total of 5m of LED strips along the PVC blanket, divided into 25 strips of identical length. Also, I’m clearly not a soldering expert so I had to do my best avoiding any short circuit and weak points.

I knew this would improve dramatically the quality of my photos, but I didn’t imagined it would be that much! I’m so stoke by the result, and look how little space the whole light box + lighting is taking!

I become more end more urgent for me to find a decent DSLR now…