DIY: How To Create Your Own White Box for Under $10
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DIY: How To Create Your Own White Box for Under $10

on Jul 8th 2010 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: A Cardboard Box, Window Film, Poster Board, 3 Lights, Knife, Tape, and a Small Subject.
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 12 min

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the DIY Tips & Tricks Session
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In this tutorial we’ll be creating a White Box which will allow you to take awesome close up photos in a seamless “Matrix-like” space. There is plenty of information on the web on how to create a White Box so I don’t claim to have “come up with” this idea. All that’s important to me is that it’s in front of your eyes now so this can be an option for your future projects. Enjoy!

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File size 133MB

Related Links

I mentioned a couple of other related tutorials in the video, both of which can be found below:

Be sure to leave a comment below if you try this technique, and let us know how it goes!

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  • http://www.philipdavis.tumblr.com Philip Davis

    Loved this, great job guys!

  • http://www.onepicaday.ch Andris

    This is the most funny tutorial I’ve ever seen. Nice tips and pretty amusing. Thanx for the effort.

  • Loqy

    Nice Tut!
    I don’t think i need something like this but after this tut i think i would build me one ether…. :)

  • http://www.goldvinewebsolutions.com Matt Goldman

    Great tutorial, perfect amount of humor :-) I hope I can find a use for this project in the future haha

  • Matteo

    Ahahahah rarely i have so much fun watching a tutorial!!! thank you so much i will try this .

  • http://www.shaneparkerphoto.com Shane Parker

    Ha! Great job Adam.

    On a side note, it seems I woke up this morning to all the tuts+ sites realizing that their content has been crap as of late. It’s good to see the tuts+ family producing some great stuff again!

  • Romannumeralus

    LOVE IT! SO EASY!

    • Romannumeralus

      Gonna use this for a cupcake shoot! Pretty much perfect!

  • http://www.vaporizerkits.com Da Buddha

    Good stuff. When my current one goes bad, I’ll have to look this tut up again.

  • MIke

    A little too chatty for me. Cmon! Get to the TUT!

  • shepa

    Great…. thanks a lot.

  • http://damouse.deviantart.com dorianne

    alternatively, use your bathtub :P

  • http://www.sugahcubes.wordpress.com Kagiso Legotlo

    Fun,Fun,Fun…….I cant wait to do it!

  • Damjan

    Does frosted glass give the same effect as frosted window foil?

  • Lana

    THANK YOU THANK YOU. Have been looking for something like this. Save my day! I need to make a white box tomorrow! Perfect for my doll models. you’re very funny. Great job!

  • CJ

    Lol glamour shots of a tomato. I will definitely try this when I am able to get some lamps

  • http://www.glowstickjunkie.com Trevor

    I made a white box using a different tutorial that utilized white tissue paper, and it just wasn’t working for me. Frosted window foil is so much easier and so much better! Thanks!

  • julie

    Adam, you are a genius. Thank you for your simple DIY tut and for showing that things can be done with simple things around the house, like “mom lamps.” My eyewear client had things roll off the manufacturing plant just 48 hours before major eyewear show. We had no product shots and no time to get a professional but what I was able to shoot in my makeshift white box, we got it done. You rock!

  • REBA

    Will tissue paper have the same effect as the window film?

  • Mom of 4

    Thanks! Will build mine this afternoon for my jewelry. Very informative and entertaining (how often does that happen?!)

  • http://www.e-sigaretta.it Henrik

    Must shoot tons of product pictures over the next two days. Just cut the box per your instructions. I’ll hang on the door at opening hour of the home decor shop for the window foil and the lamps tomorrow morning. You turned desperation into enthusiasm with this tutorial. Made my day. Lovely!

  • probleminator

    new to photography and already spent the mortgage, grocery, pharmacy, kids college and chocolate fund on the camera so no money left for anything else. Thanks so much for giving me hope that I don’t have to sell the children to pay for any other equipment. ps I won’t sell the children but definitely considering the dogs.

  • Mosha Jr

    Thank you for making life so easy :-)