Directions for Building a Lightbox for Pictures

[EMSChins]

Does anyone have directions on how to build a lightbox to take better chinchilla pictures?

Or do you have suggestions as to how you take decent pictures for a website. I would like them to be bright and clear and somehow manage to contain the chins even if I am working alone.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[threewingedfury]

Here's a previous thread with links: http://www.chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12318

It does take some time to get good pictures of the chins because you can't really stop them from moving. Sometimes I take about 10 minutes with each chin just to get that perfect picture.

 

[EMSChins]

Thanks Tiffany - I searched and don't know why this didn't come up - probably operator error!

 

[alli713]

it looks like I didn't post in that other one, so here's how I have mine. I use mine for Etsy.

My husband built a 3-sided box out of lumber. So we had to screw some 1"x6" lumber together to get a box that was around 12" tall. Then I just line the inside with either fabric or paper. This is an old photo, now I have all white paper taped to the sides. Doing it this way you can make the back as long as you want, mine is okay for a chin, but it would be nice to be a bit bigger if you wanted to use it for that.

Then the key to good photos is the lights. You want daylight bulbs. They're the compact fluorescent ones. I just use clamp lamps to hold them on.