Pixel Darkroom Photography

Food shot Thursday! Yeah, I know it looks yummy and you wished you tasted it. Oh well, one of the perks of a food photographer is that you get to consume what’s being prepared for you to shoot. Plus, you don’t even have to hunt for it. Drop me a line to ask for the recipe.

Strobist info: 580 EX CR at 1/2, 580 EX II CL at 1/32 or so, and 580 EX II contre-jour, lighting my backdrop. All via PW. Shot with a 50 mm prime + 1 dioptre filter at f7.1.

Today we went and visited some great friends where we had dinner. Jacob makes an amazing Caesar Salad and while he was preparing it, I was playing with the candles that Claudia arranged on the table and was working on getting today’s shot. When he was done, I put the salad on the table instead, bounced a flash on the ceiling and had this shot by the fourth frame. The “original” shot is somewhere else. It’s interesting how I like the non setup stuff better. I like the mix of colours here – candle light with bounced flash. I’ll talk about color temperature some other time. Suffice it to say that the candle light appears very very warm, while the flash, which is supposed to imitate daylight appears much cooler when combined with candle light in the same frame.
Here goes Caesar Salad à la Jacob. Day 87.

Strobist info: 580 EX bounced into ceiling.

This is some extra food I shot a couple of days ago. They are besides my 365 project. Today’s post is here.

Strobist info: 580 EX CL 1/128 zoomed to 28mm, CR bounced off umbrella 1/8 24mm zoom, ISO 100, 1/200. Setup shot here.