Room Sized Lightbox Provides The Perfect Lighting Every Time
Jun 15, 2014
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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One of the first tricks new photographers discover is the ability to place an object in a box with the walls replaced with diffusion material to create even lighting. Of course, any scientific mind will immediately ask, can we make this human size? The answer, is yes!
Photographer Kevin Lynch does just that. Using an array of PVC pipes and fittings, he created a room sized light box. It is actually big enough for a Karate fighter to jump around in.
Now here comes the cool part, having this frame made out of PVC, allows for interchanging fabrics, so it can be a light box, a diffusion box or a black, shadowless box, all depending on the fabric used to cover it.
The main idea is that the only lighting used in the box is the lighting that Kevin Lynch puts in there. He can use strobes or continuous lights or a combination of both knowing that no interference will come from ambient light.
Another option is to place plexiglass on the floor for an added reflection, as Kevin demonstrates in some of the shots.
Taking all this into consideration, for the life of me I can’t understand why Westeren Digital who made the video called this “An easy trick“.
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Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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4 responses to “Room Sized Lightbox Provides The Perfect Lighting Every Time”
Does it make any sense? Btw there is no any footages of position of light
relatively to the giant softbox.
This is called a light tent and has been around forever. Essentially, this is the way movies were made in the silent era, only the sun was the light source.
works for everything that isn’t leather (y)
I’m not a fan of ANY of the images he showed here. The motion blur plus strobe effect has been done better by countless other photographers.