Build a light table for product photos with tray from Ikea
Build a light table so that you get information from below you can easily fix with the plate “Smula” (15 S Krona) from Ikea. There are those who use Ikea laundry bag as photo tent, which works fine. Previously I have written about how easy it is to build a small light tent. Now I want to go a little further and use the lighting from below so that I do not get any shadows at the product itself.
I got therefore a white translucent tray from Ikea so that I could put a lamp below the product. Then I built simple white paper into a light tent by folding a sheet of A4 paper so that they were folded. I let a paper that could stand in the background and hold up my curved sheet of A4 paper.
Yes, I know I should have sources of light from the sides. This is the more to show on principle than to produce the perfect product photo. I got the idea when Robert mentioned that he used the right tray “Smula” to develop an inexpensive white balance filters. His tests show that white balance filter works well good. You can check my own setting the white balance with that tray. No need for expensive filters to set the white balance, but i like this as an idea and even so a simple gray card works in every situation.
There are countless ways to build cheap light tent. Strobist tips how to build an inexpensive light tent is probably quite common and it could of course combine with my tips with tray with candles from below.
