8 August 2012

DIY Light Box for night time photography & a sneak peek


This post is for the bloggers amongst us or anyone that sells stuff online. I've been hating the very small opportunity to take a photo with our shortened or non-existent daylight hours.

Doing a bit of reading I found we should be using a light box with daylight bulbs, doing more reading it seems like the blue ones are best & if you live in NZ I found 2 places that do sell them The LightBulb man in Penrose and the Lamp Specialist in Lower Hutt, both do mail order but for the moment I have 24V Phillip Cool Daylight spiral filament bulbs in my $8 lamps from the Warehouse (reduced from $12 - yes got to love a bargain) & Stampin' Up! provided the big cardboard box. If you want to make your own this was a good link on how-to make your own box.

With the lights off :


And a wee sneak peek of our new ink-pads - which are firmer & juicer & perfect for solid images, & believe it or not they are cheaper.

I will have an Cherry Cobbler old & new ink-pad at my open homes for the catalogue launch for you to see the difference for yourself. Below we have the new ink pad on the left. Normally I would tap my solid stamp & twist & re-tap a few times but for this wee "trial" I just inked up & stamped to show the difference.



Happy stampin' & photographin' to you all!

3 comments:

  1. That's such a great idea. Thanks for sharing that Karen. BTW I love how your blog looks and especially like the red borders around your pics. Do you edit them in photoshop or something to get that look?

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  2. Thanks Heather sorry it's just this blog layout that does the border - check out LeeLou blogs as she has some cool new ones available

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  3. Wow. That's great. Will have a look.

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