I'm just a poor country boy, trying to scrape by. Take 1 box, 1 led light kit from Amazon
Amazon.com: LE® 12V Flexible LED Strip Lights Kit, LED Tape, Daylight White, 300 Units 3528 LEDs, Non Waterproof, Light Strips, Pack of 16.4ft/5m, All Accessories Included: Musical Instruments ,and some cheese cloth. The leds can be reduced to 50% / 25% / 100% with remote included with lights. Please see attached pics. I hung cheese cloth over lights so the photos were not to reflective of leds. This is still a work in progress, and I am not a photographer by any means, just looking to make my pics better. Enjoy!
Hi chrome
I guess I will be different about your DIY Box.
LED lights do not produce electromagnetic polarized waves.
But once LED light is reflected or softened it does , And once those polarized waves strike any nonmetallic smooth surface it creates polarized reflection. AKA glare.
You also have UV rays that create reflection or glare to.
Every light will create some kind of noticeable glare line on your pen.
The more lights and the more the light is reflected the more the glare lines to the point you are washing out the pen with reflection or glare.
Part of photography is technics used on certain types of photography like land scape or portrait photography.
If you think your DIY photo tent is a good idea and you think your picture are good then please join a photography forum and show them your pictures and tell them what technic and equipment you are using.
I think you pen looks very nice but honestly I thought your photograph could be done allot better.
I thought it was partially whited out with glare or overexposed....
I am not saying this to be anything but to be practical .
How many lights do you need to light up a 5 inch pen ?
Point being One light one glare line ...............................................
I don't know of any Professional photographer who is surrounding his subject with lights ........................................