Turn Your Tablet Into a Studio Light

[Stevenmarc]

Interesting tutorial:

Your iPad is your Sunday Times. Your game console. Your encyclopedia. The guardian of your deepest, darkest secrets. (Better put a password on that!)

And now, it’s your new studio light!

It’s true. Your tablet is powerful enough to illuminate your subject in almost any photo situation.

This guide will show you how a tablet can super charge your shots with creative backdrops, custom light shapes, and pop art colors.

Just when you thought your tablet reached peak awesomeness, it suddenly got so much awesomer.


http://content.photojojo.com/diy/turn-your-tablet-into-a-studiolight/

[alfredo]

1. I can't count the times I've used mine as a flashlight.

[Stevenmarc]

2. There are some apps

That are great for making your iPad and iPhone into a serious lighting system

Light Paint Pro

http://www.lightpaintpro.com/?p=304

You can also use your phone as a remote to control the lighting on the iPad

http://www.lightpaintpro.com/?p=321

[alfredo]

3. I made a white image to do the job, and could make different colored ones for different effects.

[Stevenmarc]

4. Oh course that's one way

and you certainly can create other colors and other shapes to enhance the image but it's nice to know someone created an app so you don't have to MacGyver it.

[alfredo]

5. True.