Diaper Cake

"Rhymes good as a tasty cake, mix, this style, I'm masterin'" - Brooklyn Zoo: Ol' Dirty Bastard

 

One of our good friends just had another baby so to celebrate @monatheism made a little cake out of newborn diapers and asked me to photograph it for her (I'm thinking this is gonna show up on her #fb page).

 

I wanted to capture a very clean/somewhat muted look to the image, so I had @monatheism hold a 580EX in a shoot through umbrella directly above the diaper cake and created a bit of rim light by placing a snoot/grid 430EX behind the cake camera left. Background lighting was provided by a 550EX on the floor pointed at the wall.

 

Strobist info:

 

1 580EX II (key) 1/8 power shoot through umbrella above camera center

1 430EX (rim) 1/4 power snoot/grid behind cake off camera left

1 550EX (background) 1/4 power on floor pointed at wall camera left

 

Camera settings:

 

1/500 f/4 ISO50

 

Lens used:

Fixed Canon 7-21mm f/2.0-2.5 as found on a Canon PowerShot G2

 

Setup shot can be found here

 

Explore July 6, 2009

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