Hi, Had a go at abit of my own photography. To produce these images i used the ultimate in equipment, Listed below.

 

1) Boredom

2) Digital Camera

3) A White Desk

4) A4 Sheet of paper

5) Pro lighting (Argos Desk Lamp)

 

So guys and girls please have a look through my album and tell us what you think.

 

See the results

take a cardboard box and put paper on the backs and cut the top and do the same and put a lamp there. make a light box .

Hard shadows are your main problem here. Direct point-light will always do that and it's undesirable!

 

Really you need to construct a sort of softbox for the lighting. Easiest way is just to diffuse the light using greaseproof paper or something... i.e. take a large sheet of semi translucent paper, and mount it between the light and the subject.

 

I love your impromptu infinite curve!

 

For about £30 you can get a 'web photography' mini light box plus several bits of kit for macro/small items. A really great addition to your photography arsenal on a small scale.

 

But, nice and colourful compositions!

Yes, I agree, it's the casting shadows that are causing issues, using a lightbox will give you a much cleaner photograph.

really nice work there

I Think i might go for the cardboard box option, but i will look into getting some sort of lightbox and see what other random items i can find to photograph. Cheers for the replays much appreciated.

You can get a fold-away lightbox cheap on ebay - that's where I got mine, coupled with two anglepoised desk lamps == voila, mini-photo-studio!

tracing paper over the light source is a very good tip - I do that all the time...it reduces the harshness of shadows and also helps to evenly distribute the light.

Yea i agree with seige the light is far too hard causing hard shadows, use the grease proof paper or tracing paper. but also there is very bad vignetting (darkening towards the corners and edges of the images) in all of your pictures, this is normally caused by the lens but in your case it is the light again having a strong direction, adding a diffuser (tracing paper) will help but ideally you need more or bigger soft lights. also the background is not a pure white for this you need the bulbs in your soft box to be more powerful and also because there is a very slight yellow tint caused by using artificial light you need to alter the white balance on your camera to compensate for this if your camera has white balance.

 

i have the first version of this book which is quite useful...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Product-Shots-Pro-...3318&sr=8-1

 

 

Good luck!

nice photos but you can some details for it...