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Shooting macro in a light tent

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Shooting macro in a light tent

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Product photography used to be a very specialized, niche form of photography. But now-a-days, with eBay, and Craigslist, and other ways to sell things online, most of us occasionally run into a need to shoot some nice product shots for posting online. Very often, this is a macro situation, if you're selling something small. And, there are now-a-days some very easy ways to get very nice- looking product shots using pre-built light tents and light boxes that give you very, very good lighting. I know it looks strange with this big thing in front of me. So, we've got this camera behind me, so you can see more of what I've got going on here. This is a box made of diffusion material. This is one that I got at Calumet Photo. I think you can order these from their website also. What's nice about this is it all folds up into just a kind of flat portfolio kind of thing. What makes this such a nice product shooting arrangement is that, when I set it like this, up against a window, so that I've…

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