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Over the past few days, I had been busy experimenting on a cheap way of setting up a mini photo studio and test it out by taking shots of different small items available to me in my bedroom. If I am successful in this, this will be my first step in improving my photography skills as well as being able to offer high quality product shooting services in my portfolio.

Of course, I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the help of the Internet where I found a great deal of photography resources with regards to making my own mini studio and the ways to get them up and running in no time. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m looking to setup a non-expensive mini studio and since I don’t have an extra flash kit with me for the proper lighting setup, I had to resort to using high powered lamps. I bought 2 lamps from IKEA and mounted them with a 20W energy saving fluorescent light bulbs. That went well I suppose considering that a normal flash kit would’ve been in the thousands range where as the lamps and the bulbs together were only hundred plus ringgit.

After that, I got excited and followed a tutorial I saw on the Internet and built my own makeshift light tent. How did I do it you might say? I just scourge for an unused empty box (a Dell Computer box for that matter) and started cutting and taping here and there with tracing paper and duct tape. Eventually the light tent was completed. It was a work of art. To me at least.

So, I started setting up the lamps as well as the cameras on the tripod. Everything went well and I couldn’t wait any longer to try some of the shoots. I used almost anything I could get in my bedroom as my shooting subject. There were small little cosmetic stuff like a toner, moisturizer, aluminum water bottle and etc.

Anyways, here’s the result of those shots. After some post processing done with Photoshop of course. By the way, the last two shots of the moisturizer (the Nivea Aqua Sensation Day Cream) was me experimenting on having just one light source, meaning one from the left and one from the right.