Light Tents
On the next page is an inexpensive Light Tent that I have cut the
bottom (cut on one of the flat sides) out of. I then place the light tent
over the subject as you can see. Here the subject is the Mullein
plant. In this photo I have partially bent the detachable (velcro) front
panel back so that you can see into the tent. I usually just poke the
camera lens through the slit in the front or pull back the velcro from
the top and shoot downward from there. This is my smaller tent. I
also have a 48” tent that kids could play in. I use it to place over
whole sections of plants, like in a field so that I can stop the wind
and concentrate on the flowers or the insects on the flowers, etc.
This approach is a little extreme and cumbersome but it does work
well.
Here you see a Nikon D3s on a Gitzo GT2531 tripod, with a
Markins Q3 ball head, and a Nikon MC-30 remote shutter release.
These and the following shots are kind of sloppy because I was
fighting rain that was only minutes away.