Brown Eggs

While looking around the house for something to shoot, I popped my head in the refrigerator and decided to photograph some eggs that we had. More and more I'm trying to blend the colors together instead of just putting something red against something thing white.

 

For today's shoot I grabbed some baskets and clean cloth and arranged it on the kitchen table to shoot it looking down (top down perspective).

 

My first lighting attempt involved a shoot through umbrella but I found the light a little to directional then decided just to pop a pair of speedlights on either corner bounced on the ceiling so that it would act like a few overhead softboxes.

 

Try as I might I couldn't get the cloth's designs perfectly square. Only till I opened it up fully did I notice that the design wasn't square in the first place. D'oh!

 

Strobist info:

 

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

1 580EX II (Group A) Slave 1/4 power ceiling bounced lower left corner

1 550EX (Group C) Slave 1/4 power ceiling bounced upper right corner

 

Camera settings:

 

1/300 f/4 ISO400

 

Lens used:

 

Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

 

Setup shot can be found here

 

Explore July 28, 2009

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