Strawberry Croissant

As I was getting ready to call it a day last night, till I received a plain white box from the bakery team with the words "Picture This" scribbled on top. This meant that I would have to push off sleep for just a few more hours.

 

In the box where a little more than a bakers dozen of Strawberry Croissants. While I'm no food expert I do know that at 12 in the morning the smell of fresh baked croissant certainly was enough to keep me awake.

 

The problem that I had with these however was that unlike normal croissants that are puffy and give great volume when photographed these were split in half and filled with almond paste, strawberries and a crumble which made them lay flatter than what I would have liked.

 

I tried a few different shots from grouped, stacked, laying side by side to a single one but none of them gave the look of "Good morning and welcome to your breakfast."

 

In the end I decided to photograph it like an open faced sandwich. To me this conveyed that it is a croissant but with a lot more inside.

 

Strobist info:

 

1 430EX 1/16 power 1/4 CTO shoot through umbrella camera right

 

Camera setting

 

1/200 f/2.8 ISO100

 

Lens used:

 

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

 

No setup shot for this one as I was pressed for time.

Done