Portrait 268

Day 268 of 365

"Portrait 268"

 

I love peppers. I love spicy peppers. This is not a spicy pepper. However, it is the only pepper I purchased yesterday. It was so pretty, I thought it should be photographed. But what to do with it? There are countless images of peppers online, but I was hoping to do something unique. I thought that working with complementary colors might give it some pop, so I used a green gel on the background. Ideally, I would have had a roll of green seamless, and just hit it with a snooted strobe. However, because the paper is white, I gelled a strobe to light the paper, and then used as second light to create the little white ball of light behind our young model. It works, but it required two strobes. As for our subject, she is lit from camera-right with a small softbox. The small softbox is large to her....because she is but a small pepper. I then added a strip light at camera-left, slightly behind and above said pepper. This light can be seen on the top of the capsicum. I have seen many images of peppers thinly sliced, and recomposed in Photoshop. I decided to go in similar direction, but chose to leave our little friend partially assembled. She is hanging from a string, and I removed it in post. Thanks for hangin' out!!

 

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