Blueberries Revisited

After dinner tonight we had some homemade ice cream for dessert and to top it off we put a blueberry on each scoop. Of course being that you're holding off dessert for kids under 5 you really have to work quickly taking pictures of them because 1) they want their ice cream and 2) it's gonna melt.

 

I really wanted to separate the color of the ice cream from the background color yet still maintaing a somewhat similar tonal range so I had to be careful to not overblow the wall. Also I wanted to just highlight a single cone so I positioned the main light in such a way where the fall off would be somewhat steep on the side not exposed to the light.

 

To insured that the side of the main cone did not go deep into the shadows I spilled a bit of rim on the dark side of that single cone.

 

Strobist info:

 

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

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

1 430EX II (Group B) Slave 1/8 power snoot/grid pointed behind in focus cone out of frame camera left

1 550EX (Group C) Slave 1/32 power on floor behind table pointed at wall camera center

 

Camera settings:

 

1/300 f/2.8 ISO100

 

Lens used:

 

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

 

Set up shot can be found here

Done