Ryan's setup is reminiscent of the studio I had in my last job, for eBay items, with the exception I used wireless off-camera flash placed inside the cabinet, and a white sheet, slit down the middle, covering the front to stop light escaping. It was rudimentary in the extreme, but worked quite well.
As for Ryan's issues with light colour, there's a few things that can be done:
1) Set white balance manually, most digital cameras provide this feature - let the bulbs warm up to full luminance, then take a reading off the inside of the lightbox. Your camera will now compensate for the very non-daylight coloured bulbs you're using (around 3000 K rated colour temperature, which explains the orange/brown tones you see).
2) Replace the bulbs with daylight bulbs - these are around 6500 K, a much bluer/cooler colour temperature, and closer to that of the sun. I'd still set on-camera white balance manually, mind.
3) Shoot in RAW and edit the white balance in your RAW processor.
Last edited by colmo; 07-10-2011 at 02:38 PM.
Reason: Added RAW option
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