Pixel Darkroom Photography

A bit of fresh fruit dramatically lit on my dinning room table. For this one I had an assistant, my friend Ugur, who held the light straight on top of the nectarine. We used a coroplast snoot to restrain the light from spilling too much on the table. Since the light was so close to the fruit, it was set to 128th power and we knocked down the ambient light by shooting at the highest synch speed available for radio triggers, in this case and for this particular camera 1/160 of a second. The light was an old Canon 580 EX flash. I warmed up the light in Lightroom. Here’s Day 307.

Here’s a little bit of freshly picked raspberries. I could totally see this image in a calendar or some other place so it is definitely available as stock image. The rain got to the fruit a little bit, but it was only enough to clean them up. It was measured. Another one of my favourites. Our good friend picked these up and a big thank you goes to her and my wife helped with the rain gear so a big thank you goes to her. Shot at 1/60 or so to grab the rain drops. I tried a few shots with on camera flash for fill but I got some reflections from the water flowing down the wood and I liked better the image without the reflections. Here is Day 272.

fruit bowl

Strobist info: 580 EX at 1/16 at 70mm CL via Pocket Wizard.