Ciabatta

The bakery team comes in with another wonderful creation: Ciabatta. This one came with instructions to eat right after the photos where taken since it just came out of the oven moments prior.

 

I tried a few different ideas with the bread but then ultimately settled on doing a tone on tone photo. Instead of placing a cherry tomato and some basil beside it on a white plate for some contrast I decided to just play off the natural colors of the bread by placing it on top of a bamboo cutting board. To highlight the light colors I added a dish of butter to the left.

 

While the lower left looked like a good place to put a knife or something else I purposely left that blank so there would be some empty spaces within the frame.

 

I also got to try something else out with the background. With only one light off camera left the fall off towards the rear was pretty steep. So one way I correct this was to place another speedlight off in the distance to act as ambient bouncing off the ceiling. I adjusted the power till it gave the fall off I was looking for.

 

Strobist info:

 

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

1 580EX II (Group A) 1/128 power shoot through umbrella camera left

1 550EX (Group C) 1/16 power behind bread on kitchen tabled ceiling bounce

 

Camera settings:

 

1/300 f/4 ISO800

 

Lens used:

 

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

 

Setup shot can be found here

Done