A Homemade Lightbox

Warning! This will be a long post! Scroll to the end to see photos of the results.

I recently decided that it would be time to invest in a lightbox- It would be great for my craft/miscellaneous photography.

Now, when I made this decision, I had no idea that a good (or even not so much) lightbox was going to cost me anywhere from $30 to $170 dollars! Now, $170 dollars is insanity. I wouldn't even pay the $30.

Then I thought, how hard could it be? A lightbox is both conceptually and technically simple to make... or so I thought.

And for the first time ever, I was right! (about something being really easy to make, I mean. I think I've been right about other things before...)

TA-DA! My lightbox!

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It's November... the lovely autumn is coming to an end. *sniff*

But last weekend was a major, MAJOR highlight for me-

I took these awesome portraits...

But the most amazing thing ever is... I MADE BOKEH!!! WITHOUT REALIZING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOKEH FTW!!! (spaz attack)

Magic.

(None of these photos have been through Photoshop yet)

Look at the pretty bokeh. LOOK AT IT!

My Bunny iPod

It's weird. I don't even like bunnies. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike them. But I don't like them excessively either. I don't know why I did this:

I doubt this is even worth a tutorial, since all I did was cut some "ears" out of a leftover bit of photo paper, and stick them on with some double sided tape, and then whip up a cute face with Doodle Buddy.

By the way, yes, that is a washi tape flag on my USB.

My "Polaroids"

Lately, I've been intrigued by Polaroids. You know, those charming vintage photographs in the iconic white border that leaves space for you to write a little note? Yep. And thus, I wanted them. That's okay, since they're readily available, right? Online you can buy little pockets to slip your photos in. They look (sorta) like Polaroids, but the price is a little obscene for my taste. And the pockets are bulky.

Then there's the option of buying a Polaroid 600, taking photos, building a darkroom, and developing them on their special little cassettes. Um, no.

But hey! There's still hope! And that's called "use polaroin.com to generate some Polaroid pictures, fix them up a little in photoshop, then get them printed at Costco". That seemed to work for me. The results were actually pretty good! When I get them I'll crop 'em up to be 4"x5".

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