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This past week I came across Strobist’s tutorial on building your own Do-It-Yourself Macro Photo Studio for less than $10. Since I’ve been eager to improve my macro photo skills, I decided to give it a go. The materials were slightly more expensive than I’d expect them to be in the States, but I still managed to get the tracing paper and posterboard for less than $6.

Once I had scrounged up a decent cardboard box, it only took me about 15 minutes to construct my mini macro studio. Lighting turned out to be the most challenging aspect of my experimentation, but this was partly because I was using a simple floor lamp (minus lampshade) as my primary light source.

So, here are the fruits of my first attempts with the mini macro studio: