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Donne-moi tes mains pour l'inquiétude
Donne-moi tes mains dont j'ai tant rêvé
Dont j'ai tant rêvé dans ma solitude
Donne-moi tes mains que je sois sauvé
Lorsque je les prends à mon pauvre piège
De paume et de peur de hâte et d'émoi
Lorsque je les prends comme une eau de neige
Qui fond de partout dans mes main à moi
Sauras-tu jamais ce qui me traverse
Ce qui me bouleverse et qui m'envahit
Sauras-tu jamais ce qui me transperce
Ce que j'ai trahi quand j'ai tressailli
Ce que dit ainsi le profond langage
Ce parler muet de sens animaux
Sans bouche et sans yeux miroir sans image
Ce frémir d'aimer qui n'a pas de mots
Sauras-tu jamais ce que les doigts pensent
D'une proie entre eux un instant tenue
Sauras-tu jamais ce que leur silence
Un éclair aura connu d'inconnu
Donne-moi tes mains que mon cœur s'y forme
S'y taise le monde au moins un moment
Donne-moi tes mains que mon âme y dorme
Que mon âme y dorme éternellement.
Louis Aragon
One of the assortment of desserts I made for Easter this year. After spending nearly the entire day Saturday prepping for Easter dinner, I wasn't really in much of a mood to spend a lot of time behind the camera; just wanted to get off my feet and rest. Put the viewfinder up to my eye, and just moved around the stuff I had been working on, looking for a composition that worked. Took a few test shots of this éclair…
…and they all felt flat, which I should have expected from the room lighting. So, out came the new flashes, and half an hour of fiddling later, I arrived at this shot (so much for the “getting off my feet and resting” thing, eh?)
I was trying to mimic the look of a strong natural backlight, like I might shoot with if it were sometime when the sun was up (using a window in the background for the main light source, and maybe a white bounce or something to fill the resultant foreground shadows.
I didn't make note of the flash power settings, but one flash was behind and about a foot above, with a 8"x12" softbox, and the other was to camera right, bounced at about a 45° angle up to a metal sheet pan I was using as a reflector. i think I got pretty close to the look I was going for, although the highlights are just a hair more blown out than I would have liked (I suspect a bigger soft box or a shoot-through umbrella may have been a better choice).
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor 18-200mm @ 135mm, 1/60s @ ƒ/8, ISO100, flash as described above. Minor cropping and color adjustment in Aperture.