Cubelite Test – Goalie Mask

First Cubelite Test

I had some experience a few years ago with a Lastolite Cubelite, which is a light tent for shooting products/people/animals/anything that will fit depending on what size you get. They did a good job at allowing you to get nice even light and soft shadows, so when I was given the task to shoot products and was asked if I needed any equipment, the Cubelite was at the top of the list.

To allow flexibility in what and how I would be shooting, I elected to go for the 4 Foot version, with a three-light setup and a white vinyl backdrop. I may change the backdrop from time to time as far as colors and textures go, but that remains to be seen.

Set up was simple; It’s pretty hard to go wrong when bringing it out of the carrying bag and even more difficult to get poor lighting once you have everything in the right position. Breaking down can be a bit more challenging, as the frame of the Cubelite can be a bit quirky to get back to the shape required to fit in the bag. However, once you get it down, it is a simple routine.

Once you have a shooting setup like this, it’s pretty easy to want to pull everything you have out and take nice evenly-lit photos of everything. I elected to use my brother’s goalie mask, which features a paint job that was conceptually developed by me. Right out of the camera, the photos required extremely little editing; All I did was some slight selective color tweaks for color fidelity.