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Happy Hour
Six little paper cocktail umbrellas.
These have different designs on each side of the paper. I wanted both to be visible here, so lighting was a balance of backlight and frontlight.
There is a very different photo of the same umbrellas here.
Set up and lighting
There's a setup pic in the comments below, or you can click here to open it in a new Flickr window.
Either way, here are the details:
Set up on glass with a layer of white paper. Umbrellas held upright with their stalks in little lumps of Blu-tack, and photographed from above.
Three hotshoe flashes fired by radio triggers.
Vivitar 283 in small softbox under the glass for a diffuse light from behind the umbrellas.
Snooted Vivitar 283 high camera-left.
Snooted Vivitar 283 just a little higher than the umbrellas, camera-right.
Triggers were Cybersyncs.
Learn how to light at Strobist
Happy Hour
Six little paper cocktail umbrellas.
These have different designs on each side of the paper. I wanted both to be visible here, so lighting was a balance of backlight and frontlight.
There is a very different photo of the same umbrellas here.
Set up and lighting
There's a setup pic in the comments below, or you can click here to open it in a new Flickr window.
Either way, here are the details:
Set up on glass with a layer of white paper. Umbrellas held upright with their stalks in little lumps of Blu-tack, and photographed from above.
Three hotshoe flashes fired by radio triggers.
Vivitar 283 in small softbox under the glass for a diffuse light from behind the umbrellas.
Snooted Vivitar 283 high camera-left.
Snooted Vivitar 283 just a little higher than the umbrellas, camera-right.
Triggers were Cybersyncs.
Learn how to light at Strobist