Reddit reviews Neewer 30"/76cm Photography Shooting Tent Kit, Including (2) 45 Watt 5000K Light Bulbs,(2) Studio Lights (1) 30"/76cm Studio Light Tent with (4) Backgrounds - Black/White/Dark Blue/Red
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Best Solution for Your Portable Photo Studio: Perfect for objects less than 16in, such as toys, accouterments, small furnishings and souvenir, etc.Soften lighting for reducing overexposure and hot spots.Seamless and non-reflectable background for less post processing.Light entering from translucent side/top cloth for bathing object in dimensional lighting.
Macro photography is one of my favorite things!
This setup is around $100 (50mm lens is optional and not part of this total) and a great place to start.
The extension tubes, when used on an (optional) 50mm lens, allows you to be anywhere from 21cm away from the subject, to 4.2cm depending on how you stack them :)
The lightbox kit comes with various backdrops and lighting. You can also use paper as a background if need be.
I also extremely recommend a tripod, when you're that close to the subject the depth of field becomes shallow. You may also want to set a timer that way pressing the shutter doesn't cause shake.
You'll probably eventually want an actual macro lens, as well as a better tripod for outdoor excursions, but if you're just doing this and staying in one place this is just fine :)
FWIW I will be disabling the beeping as the first time I power it up. I have young kids, I know how to kill obnoxious noisemakers.
Any advice on lights? A couple years ago I bought this kit: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KGXNHSI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and found the lights to be not nearly bright enough. That was shooting with my point and shoot Nikon, though. I got a smaller tent ( https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L4VDU60/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) which seems appropriate for the smaller items I make and it was better but the pictures are still quite dark.
https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Photography-Shooting-Including-Backgrounds/dp/B00KGXNHSI
And replace the bulbs with
https://www.amazon.com/LimoStudio-Photography-Studio-Fluorescent-Balanced/dp/B009F37KO2
Should be plenty of light...
>Including (2) 45 Watt 5000K Light Bulbs
I think as /u/willcodejavaforfood mentioned your lights are too far away from the product AND your light tent looks really thin and is probably not diffusing the light enough either. Have you tried putting the lights right up to the tent? Is this the light tent kit you have?
I think your problem could be that with only two harsh directional light sources essentially 30" or more away from your products there's no way to avoid a lot of shadows.
My system has four large diffused florescent daylight-balanced bulbs INSIDE the light box, which fills the box (it's a reflective silver/white color) with light and casts very few shadows. You could try adding more lights or finding some bigger light sources (soft boxes) maybe.