I was having a play at the weekend with doing some product photography. I put together my own version of a light tent/cube to make my own mini studio. This is built from 5mm thick A2 foamboard, with the top and sides panel cut to give a frame over which is mounted white tissue paper to diffuse the light. The edges are joined together using right-angle plastic sections (from my local model shop), glued (with Plasticweld) to 60-thou plasticard (also from the model shop), which in turn is glued (with a hot-glue gun) to the foamboard, in effect producing a 5mm channel that the sides can slot into.

Lighting was courtesy of a tungsten incandescent desklamp, a halogen desk lamp, a flourescent-tube desk lamp and my Nikon SB800 (with the tungsten gel on it), and using some of the foamboard off-cuts as gobos to keep the side lights on the background and not the "products". The setup was as follows:

Lighting setup - overhead view
Lighting setup - overhead view
Lighting setup - front view
Lighting setup - front view

All the different lights, with different colour casts/temparates and intensities made it difficult to get it perfect. I've also found that when working this close, the control flashes from the on-camera flash (used to wirelessly control the SB800) cast a slight shadow.

The following is processed from the RAW file, but not edited in Photoshop or similar (which might fix the annoying extra shadow).

The finished shot - Wine glass and flower
The finished shot - Wine glass and flower