Air Freshener & Trio of Dishes

"I really don't care what you think or say. I gotta bust a rhyme in my own special way." - I Don't Care : Audio Two

 

Wanting to do something a bit different today with more white/cream look with everything somewhat blending into one another. I decided to take a picture of the air freshener as well as some small dish things in the kitchen.

 

Main lighting was provided by a speedlite directly overhead of the camera. I felt that the brown stalks of the air freshener would look good with a bit of light coming in hard left so I placed a speedlite there as well.

 

I wanted the background lighting to come in about the same as the rest of the shot instead of having that a be slighting darker. In order to get the exposure I wanted I actually pointed the speedlite towards camera right so all that got on the wall was the spill from the left side of the speedlite.

 

Strobist info:

 

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

1 580EX II (Group A) Slave 1/32 power shoot through umbrella above camera center

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

1 550EX (Group C) Slave 1/8 power background fired at camera right

 

Triggered via 580EX II on camera

 

Camera settings

 

1/300 f/4 ISO400

 

Lens used:

 

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM

 

Setup shot can be found here

 

edit: trigger info added to strobist detail

 

Explore September 4, 2009

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