[bluesparrow]

Thanks for the kind words!

It's actually a really simple set up, I got this lightbox from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 but the lights and backgrounds that came with it were not really that great. The lights were yellowish and a bit dim and the backdrops pretty cheap.

I ended up getting two clearance desk lamps from Lowe's recently and two daylight 100w replacement bulbs from Kroger for the lighting, and that made a big difference. The backdrop took some experimenting, the one I used in those two pictures I got today, it's upholstery velvet I bought from Amazon($12 shipped). I had to remove some dust from it(and put it in the dryer for five minute to remove creases) and remove even more dust in photoshop.

I do a lot of corrections in photoshop though, I don't get this clean a result just in-camera.

Here's what the raw image for X looked like btw(though massively scaled down to prevent Den-O from murdering us all, the original raw image was 51mb and 5184x3456pixels):