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The same apple lighted twice:
- once as highkey, I put it on a slightly shiny IKEA-shelf and used a 550EX just outside the frame at camera-right with a LumiQuest BigBounce. The background is a curved white A4-sheet light by a 420EX with cardboard gobo. It's shot as 175mm f/2.8, so you don't see the seem of the A4-sheet
- once as lowkey, I put it on a black fleece-plaid and used a 420EX with cardboard-snoot at camera-left
This photo was taken a while ago in 2012 on Photokina in Cologne.
Shot with Nikon D5100.
ISO 200
105 mm
f/5.6
1/1000 sec
Editing in PS Lightroom 5 and PS Elements 12.
96/365
I wasn't going to post this as my shot for today but it seemed a fitting end to the lowkey week. Lighting courtesy of the sun.
MISSION: MISSION: Photograph any subject using Low Key lighting technique.
WIT: Initially this was a challenge for me and I spent a few days wondering about how I should approach this. Then it hit me that I had been screwing around with a "light box" of sorts for a few weeks (check out my set: The Black Box). It's the most basic set up I could come up with: a bunch of pieces of black foam board nailed together (for easy disassembly).
For this shot I wanted to focus on something mundane - even boring everyday things can look spectacular under proper lighting and with a tight crop. I started grabbing random things around my house: an orange, a package of barbeque sauce, etc. Nothing was coming out to my liking until I grabbed a handful of swabs. Something about the way they catch the light is really appealing to me.
ISO: 400
F8.0
1/10
Sascha Hoffmann "S.H.ooting.EM"
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