| When I photograph my models, I don't use a light box.
Useful though they are to avoid harsh contrast, it is possible to use sunlight and a reflector (can be white card or paper) only.
I usually put the model on a pedestal (inprovised according to where the sun is, can be a box, a small table, even on a fence-post), with a real sky or blank background (usually a large piece of paper curving up from the surface the model rests on, to behind the model), then look through the camera, frame the model how I want, then hand-hold a reflector to 'fill-in' any deep shadows.
Just looking through the camera will show if you have done it.
A tent can be a piece of fine curtain material or dressmaking gauze; it only need to reduce the harshness of the lighting.
As a tent reduces light, I tend to use reflectors o fill shadows instead.
Hope this is useful. |