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  Saturday  February 25  2006    09: 39 PM

photographing small things

I have a little work bench in my basement that I use, with some seamless paper, for product photography with some hot lights.

It's worked out very well. However, there are times that it would be nice to take it on the road. The lights are easy to transport but my work station isn't so I made a portable table for my product photography. Here it all is ready to assemble.

It all goes on top of one of those wonderful Black and Decker work benches that collapses into a nice size for storage or moving.

The top is in two pieces. The back piece fits into one of three slots. I use the back slot. The front piece is moved by jack screws. Here it's moved all the way to the front.

I made a top that is the width of the seamless paper and deep enough for what I need to photograph. It could have been in one piece but I didn't have a piece of scrap that big so I had to splice two different pieces together.

The seamless paper is held up by a dowel that sits in a V at the end of the vertical pieces. The whole thing is held onto the work bench by two flathead screws in the back and one in the front that go through the wooden tops of the work bench.

Then the seamless paper is unrolled and taped with gaffers tape.

I had to use it last night to take some pictures of some bags for a new site I'm working on and all went well. The table and lights make for a bit of gear to carry around but it could be worse. I could be a drummer.