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Tomato
I've reach the end of my 50 photos for 50 days with a 50mm lens project. I've learned that I really like this lens. It's great stopped down and wide open at f/1.2. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM is an amazing piece of glass and despite what you may read online this lens is truly a dream to shoot with.
The other thing that I learned was all the different ways to light something. I deviated from the rest of the #project50 group by also including lighting in my daily shots because I also wanted to learn to work lighting with the lens. I'm glad I did as it gives me other tools in my bag that I can pull out when the situation arises.
Photography is like playing the piano. The more you practice the more stuff you can refer to. You would be one boring piano player if you could only improv using just the blues scale, same goes for photography.
On to today's daily. @photosip had DM me if I had a big finale planned and I replied back that I didn't. I decided to shoot a tomato that I was using to prepare for lunch (I was making loco moco for my daughter and myself) and needed a veggie even though we all know a tomato is a fruit.
Since I had the patties frying in the pan I needed to work fast so I decided to light the tomato with a single 430 in a shoot through umbrella. To make the background a bit interesting I pointed a 550 at the wall against the angle. The first shot was ok but the background didn't look like much so I placed 2 cups up water in front of the 550 to put some texture back there.
Why 2 cups? Because I had a 2 cup measuring cup out (remember I was cooking)
Strobist info:
1 430EX 1/4 power shoot through umbrella high camera right
1 550EX 1/2 fired through measuring cup aimed at wall
Camera settings:
1/160 f/7.1 ISO200
Lens used:
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Setup shot can be found here
Explore May 28, 2009
Tomato
I've reach the end of my 50 photos for 50 days with a 50mm lens project. I've learned that I really like this lens. It's great stopped down and wide open at f/1.2. The Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM is an amazing piece of glass and despite what you may read online this lens is truly a dream to shoot with.
The other thing that I learned was all the different ways to light something. I deviated from the rest of the #project50 group by also including lighting in my daily shots because I also wanted to learn to work lighting with the lens. I'm glad I did as it gives me other tools in my bag that I can pull out when the situation arises.
Photography is like playing the piano. The more you practice the more stuff you can refer to. You would be one boring piano player if you could only improv using just the blues scale, same goes for photography.
On to today's daily. @photosip had DM me if I had a big finale planned and I replied back that I didn't. I decided to shoot a tomato that I was using to prepare for lunch (I was making loco moco for my daughter and myself) and needed a veggie even though we all know a tomato is a fruit.
Since I had the patties frying in the pan I needed to work fast so I decided to light the tomato with a single 430 in a shoot through umbrella. To make the background a bit interesting I pointed a 550 at the wall against the angle. The first shot was ok but the background didn't look like much so I placed 2 cups up water in front of the 550 to put some texture back there.
Why 2 cups? Because I had a 2 cup measuring cup out (remember I was cooking)
Strobist info:
1 430EX 1/4 power shoot through umbrella high camera right
1 550EX 1/2 fired through measuring cup aimed at wall
Camera settings:
1/160 f/7.1 ISO200
Lens used:
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Setup shot can be found here
Explore May 28, 2009