Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Sofbox light - how to make
Easy to make Softbox light for photography or a cool ambient light for the home.
I had one old road bike wheel kicking about and it seemed perfect for making a super thin Softbox light.
A Softbox light is usually used for photography to add a nice diffused light to portraits or photos of objects. They also look cool attached to a tripod in the corner of a room in the home and add a nice ambient light.
Remove all of the spokes and the hub from the wheel.
Make the front diffuser from some white lycra material that stretches in both directions.
Mark out the circle, cut and sew some elastic around the edge so that it fits the wheel tautly.
Cut out two circles from thick card one black, one white. Cut a 40mm rim from the white circle to act as a light baffle.
Attach a tripod mount to the rim through the valve hole.
Fit a LED strip light to the inside of the wheel rim.
Glue on scrunched up roasting foil to the inside face of the large cardboard circle. Helps to diffuse the light.
Glue both the cardboard circle and the light baffle to the wheel.
Fit the white fabric diffuser.
Re fit the tyre to finish the edge.
Wire the LED strip to the transformer.
Fit to a tripod and...
...switch on....
...use and enjoy!
Big thanks to Joe Bagale for his funky track 'Miles of prints' free to use through YouTube Creative Suite.
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Sofbox light - how to make
Easy to make Softbox light for photography or a cool ambient light for the home.
I had one old road bike wheel kicking about and it seemed perfect for making a super thin Softbox light.
A Softbox light is usually used for photography to add a nice diffused light to portraits or photos of objects. They also look cool attached to a tripod in the corner of a room in the home and add a nice ambient light.
Remove all of the spokes and the hub from the wheel.
Make the front diffuser from some white lycra material that stretches in both directions.
Mark out the circle, cut and sew some elastic around the edge so that it fits the wheel tautly.
Cut out two circles from thick card one black, one white. Cut a 40mm rim from the white circle to act as a light baffle.
Attach a tripod mount to the rim through the valve hole.
Fit a LED strip light to the inside of the wheel rim.
Glue on scrunched up roasting foil to the inside face of the large cardboard circle. Helps to diffuse the light.
Glue both the cardboard circle and the light baffle to the wheel.
Fit the white fabric diffuser.
Re fit the tyre to finish the edge.
Wire the LED strip to the transformer.
Fit to a tripod and...
...switch on....
...use and enjoy!
Big thanks to Joe Bagale for his funky track 'Miles of prints' free to use through YouTube Creative Suite.
Why not subscribe to catch all of the videos as soon as they are uploaded : youtube.com/c/Pricklysauce?sub_confirmation=1
Visit my website to see what I am creating at pricklysauce.com
Or Like my Facebook page : facebook.com/pricklysauce
Follow me on Twitter : twitter.com/Pricklysauce
and Instagram : instagram.com/pricklysauce
Hot news! I am now on Instructables : instructables.com/member/pricklysauce
and now on Make : community.makezine.com/share/pricklysauce/projects
Thanks for watching and please come back to watch some more.
