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Summary: Gives complete instructions on building your own light box, complete with a Bunnings shopping list! A bit Australia specific in terms of the names of all the bits and bobs, but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it for other countries. Jeremy Daalder Photography Official Site - Building your own light box

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Are there some do-it-yourself tips that penny pinching designers can employ to get more out of their photo gear/setup?

White Formica is your friend. A 4x4 sheet can be clamped to the edge of a table, and if you prop up the back end, you have a seamless (and cleanable) white background for your smaller subjects (and you can use a 4x8 sheet for larger ones)

Many shots can be done with one well diffused light source (and maybe one light on the background), with the aid of simple white and silver cards. Use white cards, propped up on a can of Spray Mount or something, to fill in shadows. If that's not enough, use a silver card.

And the best couple bucks you can spend is to buy some of that goopish adhesive for hanging posters or small prints. When your product wants to roll off the set, or your prop won't lay in quite the right place, a small ball of this goopish adhesive will temporarily defy gravity, so you can get your shot. It's like a malleable form of duct tape.

Photography QA with Reid Scott

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Digital Photography White Balance Tips and Tutorials

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A software tool to edit EXIF data in photos. This allows you to embed a description within the image so that it will not be lost. And other information such as GPS etc.

PhotoComment 1.0

Also Exifer download and review - EXIF image viewer and editor from SnapFiles

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Check out this photo subject

Post no Bills

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I came across this Photoblog entry that I through was worthy of note. It would appear there is a Last Stop Cafe next to a grave yard. Satan's Laundromat Last Stop Cafe

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