First Photoshoot With a Light Tent (Pic Heavy, Obviously.)

[SpencerShanks]

Aight so today I decided to see if I could throw together a light tent because I for one don't like cell phone pictures. They just don't do the animal any justice. So I did a bit of digging around, and I came up with this.





I made it with the wire frame from a laundry basket, a white tablecloth, a black blanket, and a couple of light fixtures that I had. Worked pretty well for what I had if you ask me.

After a bit of tinkering with the camera trying to find out how to turn off the flash, I wound up taking over 300 pictures of only three animals haha. As you can imagine, it's hard to pick just a few, so I'm going to post all 338 pictures I took today. (Just kidding, I'm just going to pick few.)

Starting with Koga, my male 2010 normal I got last Christmas.

Climbing a tower of my brother's empty duct tape rolls



Destroying said tower







Testing a snake's ability to solve a maze with no solution



Koga could be in an Old Spice commercial if he wanted to.





Look at that stripe :L



Belly Shot, woo!



Go towards the light!




And now, time for the cresties. Up first, Slowbro. Unknown sex, hatched 2011, Christmas present this year. (There'll be less of these, I promise.)












Now for Charizard, Slowbro's cagemate.





Mmm... Gecko snout...





And now, for the grand finale, the moment you've all been waiting for... KOGA'S ADORABLE YAWN PICTURES

I have this sudden urge to shout some gibberish. A phrase I think I know. Maybe something my ancestors did that's in my DNA?



It's getting stronger! I don't know if I can hold it in!



FUS RO DAH!!!



Much better.



Hope you enjoyed Rate, comment, subscr- wait, wrong site. Sorry.

[Alexandra V]

Cute pics, I need to get on making myself a light tent! I love them all, but this one's my favourite, obviously

FUS RO DAH!!!

Hehe couldn't have captioned it better myself

[Kimosobey]

So awesome! Thanks for sharing, cool setup....... curious what kinda of camera?

[EverEvolvingExotics]

I really enjoyed these two pictures. For just using some things you had around the house they turned out AMAZING. The only thing I would suggest is to possibly add another light source to balance out the light. Although the lighting you did use made for some dramatic effects, which I why I liked the crestie pic so much. Thumbs up, if I were you I'd submit the yawning pic for the monthly BPOM contest. I'd vote for it.

[SpencerShanks]

Thanks errbody who has responded so far.

The only thing I would suggest is to possibly add another light source to balance out the light. Although the lighting you did use made for some dramatic effects, which I why I liked the crestie pic so much.

After looking over the photos, I couldn't agree more about the lighting. I hope to be able to get another light soon to have two on the sides and one on top. Dunno how that'll wind up looking, but I didn't know how these would look either, haha. All dramatic lighting effects were accidents.

Thumbs up, if I were you I'd submit the yawning pic for the monthly BPOM contest. I'd vote for it.

I was thinking about it, but I couldn't quite decide. I guess since someone else asked I have to now, eh?

So awesome! Thanks for sharing, cool setup....... curious what kinda of camera?

Nikon D90. Not sure what lens my dad has on it, but I'm pretty sure it's not the one that came with the camera itself. Here's a link to some info on it. Can't really tell you much about it. http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d90/sample.htm

Can't wait to start some more experimenting with different lighting and backgrounds. Who knows, maybe I'll wind up in the pet photography business someday! (Yeah, right. I'd rather stick a needle in my eye than have to deal with the general public all day.)

[SlitherinSisters]

I love the 4th picture of the gecko!

[adamsky27]

I love the yawn photo! You should've posted sooner, you could've had a chance at the December photo contest.

[SpencerShanks]

I love the 4th picture of the gecko!

Thanks. A great example of how evil he looks some times.

I love the yawn photo! You should've posted sooner, you could've had a chance at the December photo contest.

Posted them the same day as or the day after I took the pictures. I tried submitting the yawn for this month's BPOTM but I was having problems getting the uploader to accept the image.

[crazyj83]

I built my light tent, pretty easy and super cheap, check out the diy forum there are a few good ones in it... Nice yawn pic btw...

[Jonas@Balls2TheWall]

Great pics!