DIY Florescent Tube Light Beauty Light Thingy

One thing about photography is that from time to time you have creative dry spells and you need some inspiration to keep you going. One place I love to go to when I have my dry spells, or just need some inspiration, is rught here – DIYP, and lucky for me after a while I became a writer here, so… what a coincidence. I had just made my Kick Ass 4 Feet Ringlight and got the DIY itch to create something else. Looking around the blog, I stumbled on this article about beauty florecent lighting.

It “only” took me 3 months of thinking and planning and jut wondering about if I was going to build it. Until I just did.

How To

I am not really an expert on wiring and electronic and stuff so these two articles have more detailed stuff on how to do the electronic and wiring tutorial so feel free to visit them.

For the frame of the lights, I used a clothes rack with wheels so I can push my lights wherever I want it.

I added some extra support for the lights using PVC pipes and T-connectors.

The T-connectors were used both to add better framing to the rack (both above and below the tubes) and to extend the framing where the tubes were longer than the rack.

To mount the lights to the frame I used hose clamps and some electric tape.

I know it doesn’t look pretty (and I have to admit that it does look a bit dangerous), but there are some things in life that doesn’t have to look good, they just has to work! :p

Here is the first test of the diyringlight using an iPhone:

Setup

For these sets, I used my DIY flourescent tube light thingy for the mainlight, and an sb-600 on the background. I also used a smoke machine for the smoke.