robbie ewing
coffee and cake
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We made some cake on Friday night, always a nice task! My American friends are probably familiar with Red Velvet sponge cake, its the first time I'd heard of it when Selena said lets make one of these as it will look good in a photograph. Red is a nice dramatic colour and a knew we had the right props to make a nice sexy dessert shot.
Also it was the Grand National here yesterday so I shot all morning then we took the cake round to my friends Stephen and watched the race there and ate some cake - having this much cake round the house wouldn't be good for my waistline! Needless to say, no one won anything all our horses either fell or came in 2nd, 3rd or 4th!
Lighting here is a mix of ambient and flash, SB900 in 60cm softbox camera right and behind and above the cake about 70cm away, positioned so it didn't light the back ground to much. The "go faster stripe" reflection on the plate and shadows gives away the softbox position and add drama. Fill on the cake is a snooted SB600 camera left. Fill on the cup is ambient window light. Not sure what the EV settings were, probably +1 on the softbox and -1.7 on the snoot.
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coffee and cake
Upload for Strobist Sunday Dramatic theme.
We made some cake on Friday night, always a nice task! My American friends are probably familiar with Red Velvet sponge cake, its the first time I'd heard of it when Selena said lets make one of these as it will look good in a photograph. Red is a nice dramatic colour and a knew we had the right props to make a nice sexy dessert shot.
Also it was the Grand National here yesterday so I shot all morning then we took the cake round to my friends Stephen and watched the race there and ate some cake - having this much cake round the house wouldn't be good for my waistline! Needless to say, no one won anything all our horses either fell or came in 2nd, 3rd or 4th!
Lighting here is a mix of ambient and flash, SB900 in 60cm softbox camera right and behind and above the cake about 70cm away, positioned so it didn't light the back ground to much. The "go faster stripe" reflection on the plate and shadows gives away the softbox position and add drama. Fill on the cake is a snooted SB600 camera left. Fill on the cup is ambient window light. Not sure what the EV settings were, probably +1 on the softbox and -1.7 on the snoot.
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