Under My Skin

Day 275 of 365

"Under My Skin"

 

Today's image dawned on me......in the bathroom!! My daughter plays with this plastic onion....keeper.......preserver thing in the tub, and I realized that it has these cool ridges to it. My vision for the onion thing was that there would be a sort of sun-rising horizon in the background. I snooted a speedlight and positioned it behind our subject. Once that light was set up, I was most of the way there. Then I only had to decide how our subject would be lit. Because of the reflective properties of our plastic friend, I knew that specular highlights would be the issue. With that in mind, I moved my strip light from the side, and positioned it directly overhead, and then pushed it way back, and tilted it. This way there was a nice highlight on top, and the rear edge of the light would bounce off the Plexiglass sheet, and throw some light under our subject. I love that little highlight where the plastic meets the glass. I hope your eyes didn't burn!!

 

#onion #tears #preserver #canon5dmarkIII #canon100macro #canon580exII #pocketwizard #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #striplight #foodphotography #cry

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