Soft Box for Less Than $5

by sanyam jain in Craft > Photography

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Soft Box for Less Than $5

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Getting started for Professional Photography make yourself one of the bare minimums of the skill,to avoid those shadows.

Material Needed

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  • Led strip(2.25m)
  • Lots of tape
  • Aluminium foil
  • Glue
  • Scale
  • Cutter
  • Soldering iron
  • Power supply(12v ;2amp)
  • Foam board or Cardboard
  • Butter paper
  • Rubbing alcohol
  • Some solid base(for cutting)

Cut the Box

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Cut the base for the Soft box from the foam board or cardboard as per availability.Use the templates give to cut the base.

Downloads

Paste the Led Strips

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Leave a gap of half a cm from each side and star pasting the strips without leaving the gap,You will need 15 pieces of 15 cm long led strip.

Wiring It Up

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To wire it up connect all the strips in series,or for all the noobs out there just follow the snake pattern and connect all +ve to +ve and -ve to -ve terminal,solder a longer wire at the end for connecting with the power supply

Finishing It All Up

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Just connect all the walls using tape,stick aluminium foil to the walls and finally add the butter paper to the top.And now our soft box is ready.

Some Before and After Pictures

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