Ghetto Light Tent

I came across this neat tutorial a few weeks ago about making a DIY light tent so I decided to make one!

Photographers sometimes use light tents for macro photography or product photography - the tent/box creates a clean background for the subject as well as controlled lighting. I created my light tent out of foam core board that I cut into rectangles and taped together. I cut out a square from two of the side panels and covered the holes with tracing paper. Then I lit the sides with two standing lamps (which I had to kind of disassemble to to place them correctly) and I used those compact fluorescent lights in the lamps which give off more of a white light instead of the yellow light that incandescent bulbs have. The Result was pretty neat:

Obviously not perfect, but still pretty neat!

Returning from M.I.A.

I've been MIA from the net for almost the past week due to work and finals but finals are over and I'm back! Instead of writing a really long post recapping everything, I'm going to divide everything up into two posts.

Firstly I got the opportunity to shoot another wedding (making it my second this year), earlier this month at the American Mother's Chapel at Garden of the Gods. It's a very tiny chapel, only seats about 12 people but it was a small wedding and it was a fun happy atmosphere. You can see a couple of my favorite shots on my photography site: Kaylynne Michelle Photography

I'm actually trying to come up with a new logo/brand design for Kaylynne Michelle Photography - and later I'll probably be coming up with a similar brand design for a design website/portfolio for my graphic design work.

My photography class ended last Friday and I turned in my final, a 20 photo series based on the theme: Fruit. I'll be uploading a number of these photos along with a few others from my photography course to my photography site over the next few days so keep an eye out for those!


I turned in my final 3D Design project last Tuesday which consisted of creating two different designs based on the same basic mask each student received. Despite the fact that we all started with the same mask, we all came up with a variety of designs. I created a cupcake and an octopus.

The cupcake was made by starching this awesome sparkly pink material (which I loved - I imagine its the kind of material that would be used to make a Disney Princess dress, its that unreal) and brown mesh, I painted the mask brown using a sponge (to give it a cake-like texture) and I gave the mask eyes made out of ping-pong balls along with a cherry made from a ping pong ball and polymer clay.

The octopus was created by gluing yarn to the mask (and a styrofoam ball stuck into the back of it to fill out the head), I stuck some wires into the bottom of the mask and braided the yarn around them, and I glued some yarn to a ping pong ball cut in half and painted to create the eyes and finally I created a beak for it out of polymer clay and glued some sequins to the legs for suction cups. I got an A on the octopus but only a B- on the cupcake.

I'll go ahead and save my typography final, mother's day and everything else in my next post!

Baby Foxes!

For a while now we've been watching a pair of foxes living out in a valley behind our backyard and we've suspected the past few weeks that the two may have started a little family! Yesterday we got to see the babies for the first time, here are a few photos I snapped of them hanging around their little fox hole:






Unfortunately this is as close my camera is able to zoom in to see these cute little creatures (these pictures have actually be cropped a LOT and then re-sized which unfortunately lowers the quality), so I decided to rent a lens from a camera lens rental place based in Boulder, CO - the lens should be here by Wednesday or Thursday so hopefully I'll be able to get some better shots of the babies, hopefully ones which I can add to my portfolio! Wish me luck!