Cheerios

We tend to have a lot of Cheerios around the house because of the kids. Well that and Grape Nuts. So today while looking for something to shoot I looked at my daughter who was munching on some mixed with dried cranberries so I borrowed a few. Yeah she wasn't happy with that.

 

Looking at what I had in my hand I notice that the cranberries would make a great contrast to the Cheerios. I decided to shoot them against a greyish tone. In order to do that I underexposed the background as well as the foreground instead of exposing them correctly which would have made them bright white. To add a bit of accent to the Cheerios I lit it with a speed light pointed at the space behind the cereal.

 

One thing I also got to try was the camera's higher sync speed of 1/300 unlike the 1/250 of the Canon 40D and 1/160 of the 5D Mark II.

 

Strobist info:

 

1 580EX II (Group A) Master on camera disabled

1 580EX II (Group A) Slave 1/16 power shoot through umbrella camera right

1 430EX (Group B) Slave 1/8 power snoot/grid behind Cheerios off camera left

1 550EX (Group C) Slave 1/16 power pointed at background off camera left

 

Camera settings:

 

1/300 f/16 ISO800

 

Lens used:

 

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

 

Setup shot can be found here

 

Explore July 23, 2009

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