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Build Your Own Lightbox

Inspiration from Strobist's How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio article is what kept me occupied last Sunday afternoon. After visiting the local dollar store and re-purposing one of my moving boxes, I crafted together a do-it-yourself lightbox: Cut out large windows in the sides and top of the box then tape some tracing paper or any other white transparent material over the windows. Hang white cloth or white paper from inside the top of the box and let it drape to bend out and cover the floor of the box. The box itself might not be pretty what with its visual aesthetics rivaling that which a kindergartener would fabricate together between sandbox and nap times, but it gives a cool effect with my favourite hot beverage: