Opium weights (Get Pushed round 21)

Simon Hucko pushed me in round 21.

(have a look at his stream, he is experimenting with a lot of different things that may give you ideas).

 

Simon's push was:

- a table top still life of a subject of your choosing.

- light source can be anything from a flash to a window to a desk lamp to a work light,

- mold and shape that light using diffusion and reflectors to add to your subject.

- Bonus points for including a "pull back" setup shot.

 

I had been playing with these elephants (opium weights my wife picked up during her travels in Asia) and wanted to use their shadow but with the soft window light there was not enough shape in so I decided to use the flash for that and then needed a second flash to prevent the background from being too dark. I did play a bit with contrast and so and cropped on in PS Elements to get to this result (might have overdone that a bit, and will give the processing another go.

 

Camera Canon EOS 7D

set-manually: Exposure 0.033 sec (1/30), Aperture f/10.0

Focal Length 30 mm

Lens Sigma 30mm 1.4

ISO Speed 400

Exposure Bias 0 EV

Flash On, Fired (to trigger the two strobes)

Done