Over the Weekend I picked up a Light Tent. If you’ve never heard of one of these things it’s basically a white tent with a felt like material on the back and bottom and the top and sides are made of a semi-transparent white tent material. Color corrected lamps are placed outside the tent and shine through the sides defusing the light. This is basically the kind of thing they use to make professional product photos with a pure white background and no shadows.
Professional tents can cost thousands and then you still need to buy lamps but this one was less than $100 and included the lights . It works exceptionally well for what I’m using it for. The included felt material comes in gray and blue (for easily cropping out the background in photoshop), I might look into picking up some white material and building some stuff to keep it under tension to keep out ripples and reduce shadows further.
In any case I’m more than pleased with what I got for my money. You can see the first photos I took with it over on collectorsedtion.org
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