Last night, along with taking photos of gear, I took a few photographs of my light tent and thought that I would share how easy they are to build. I found a step by step tutorial on Mojorizing's Yuku profile which was a big help.


I ended up gluing the the PVC pipe frame together for ease of setup and store it under our bed.


This plastic bin holds the legs, four lamps, king size white sheet, four 100 watt CFL light bulbs in the natural white color, and a hanger to hold the paper in place.


Light on top and both sides with a fourth light that I can place wherever more light is needed.


These lamps cost about $8 a piece at your local hardware store. Bulbs are $8 for a two pack.


I like that you can clip them wherever and the heat from the bulb won't burn the sheet since they are CFL bulbs.


Use the cheapest white sheet you can find. No reason for 2000 thread count here.


All set up and ready to start popping shots!


The results. Now ... there is still much for me to learn on the effective use of the light tent but I'm having a great time and it certainly takes a better photo than me using my leather ottoman and reading lamp as a studio. HA ...

What a straightforward, inexpensive approach. Nice.

Did you shoot these photos of your new light tent under a much larger light tent?

Thank you again for sharing this Cam!