Moody Lighting

"UFO Coffee"

I did this composite years ago, 3 photos all photographed by me, one photo for the coffee beans pile (just a DIY diffuser with a circle gobo to lit and fade like that, with a speedlight behind it), another for the flying beans (the same setup for the beans in the "ground", just without the gobo), and finally, the cup and saucer, the same speedlight firing direct at the bottom of the saucer, and the same DIY diffuser above it to bounce back some light at the top of the saucer and cup. The speedlight was triggered using the camera's pop-up flash on all photos.