Taking good photos of your collection

[no man army]

Hello,

Just thought you guys may find this helpful. Ive been looking at photography light boxes etc on the net and they can be pretty expensive so I thought I could make one for less than £15, and I did for less than £10

cardboard box with sides and top cut out - free
grease proof paper to cover the holes 88p
Lamps £2 each
card to line the box £1

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Heres how the pictures look

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any questions feel free to ask, im no photographer but I will try and help.

[Adrian]

Good job and very effective! What watt bulbs are in the lamps, the brighter the better I guess?
There is a thread in the TR Decorations forum with a few tips on photographing your medals and one member has shown a cheap way to add more light to an object using led lights. You can view the thread here.

[no man army]

Im not too sure how many watts the bulbs are I will have to take a look later, I should really be using daylight bulbs to eliminate the pinky orange colour in the pictures, Cheers for the link I will take a look now