Thanks for posting, good to keep things going on here. Haven't had the chance to shoot much myself lately, so it's great to see your shots! I really like this one, the lighting is beautifully warm and welcoming. Did you use window light fro the backlight, or is it a softbox? Either way, fantastic lighting. The one thing that detracts from the photo is the toothpick in the bottom wrap - it's in the way of the top wrap and makes it hard to focus on the food behind. Otherwise, I really can't fault this shot, love the placement of everything.
Thanks! I've been playing around with the lighting. Trying to create window light in studio. So what I've done is taken a 4x4 scrim we made and fired a light through that, and then filled with reflectors. The advantage of doing this way is I can move the light anywhere behind the diffusion, so I can to shape the light. Much more control than a softbox and the panel is more specular.
So if it feels like window light thats a great compliment, because thats what I was trying to reproduce!
i really dig the depth in your shots. light is really solid and the food looks delicious! what are you firing through your scrim? speedlights or studio strobes? also, to add a photo do you post as a comment or new discussion?
Thank you so much!! In this case, because it's a full on commercial studio I was using studio strobes, more specifically Speedotrons.
But if I'm doing a location gig I would hesitate to use speed lights. One oft favorites to use, and it's supper cheap is the Vivitar 285hv.
Using a scrim instead of a box gives all sorts of different positions to move the light around to wrap the light. Then had a couple well placed reflectors and you have it.
In the food group I will post as a new discussion if it's a new food shot. I figured new shot new topic. Don't know if that's right, but wanted to get the conversations going.
Thanks for posting, good to keep things going on here. Haven't had the chance to shoot much myself lately, so it's great to see your shots! I really like this one, the lighting is beautifully warm and welcoming. Did you use window light fro the backlight, or is it a softbox? Either way, fantastic lighting. The one thing that detracts from the photo is the toothpick in the bottom wrap - it's in the way of the top wrap and makes it hard to focus on the food behind. Otherwise, I really can't fault this shot, love the placement of everything.
Thanks! I've been playing around with the lighting. Trying to create window light in studio. So what I've done is taken a 4x4 scrim we made and fired a light through that, and then filled with reflectors. The advantage of doing this way is I can move the light anywhere behind the diffusion, so I can to shape the light. Much more control than a softbox and the panel is more specular.
So if it feels like window light thats a great compliment, because thats what I was trying to reproduce!
i really dig the depth in your shots. light is really solid and the food looks delicious! what are you firing through your scrim? speedlights or studio strobes? also, to add a photo do you post as a comment or new discussion?
Thank you so much!! In this case, because it's a full on commercial studio I was using studio strobes, more specifically Speedotrons.
But if I'm doing a location gig I would hesitate to use speed lights. One oft favorites to use, and it's supper cheap is the Vivitar 285hv.
Using a scrim instead of a box gives all sorts of different positions to move the light around to wrap the light. Then had a couple well placed reflectors and you have it.
In the food group I will post as a new discussion if it's a new food shot. I figured new shot new topic. Don't know if that's right, but wanted to get the conversations going.