From: Steven Desjardins
Hit send too quickly. To your point, the one I liked best looked
carefully planned (the breakfast shot) rather than manipulated. Not
to say it wasn't but it looks like he was simply patient.
There's more than patience, there's a lot of preparation.
You can see a reflection of the light he used to light the indoor part
of the scene on the edge of the plate and on the rim of the coffee cup.
Or maybe that's a tea cup.
Also the shadow of the cup on the HP sauce bottle along with highlights
from the strobe. There's a diffuse shadow of the bottle and plate on the
tablecloth coming from the window and there's a hard shadow of the cup
on the bottle going in the opposite direction.
He's done a good job of locating his light to make the scene look
natural, but once you know to look for it, you can see the scene is
purposefully lit.
It helps to have a location where they still regularly run steam
locomotives past your window.
I wouldn't be surprised if he found that window and set up the breakfast
table and lights in there to take advantage of the view. I wouldn't be
surprised if he had an idea of the viewpoint he wanted and went looking
specifically to find a window to give him the viewpoint he wanted.
The more I look at it, the more I see preparation rather than patience.
He built that image from the train to the framing in the window to the
foreground that stages the scene.
I think he's at least had to sandwich images to get the DoF though.
I like it. I think it's a damn good image, but I don't think it's
straight out of the camera.
Nothing wrong with that, just good commercial photography.
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