On 12/29/2011 1:56 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Or even one of those speedlight soft box adapters with the speedlight on a
cable off to the side a bit.
Those things are not much larger than the ring-light, source-wise.
A diffuse source at least as large as that tray would be best. An 18"
softbox minimum, I'd say. A cheaper bet would be a shoot-through
umbrella or simply the diffuser from a 5-in-1 reflector combo with the
strobe fired through it.
Either way, arrange the light source above.
Something I'd try in this case is a 24" (or larger) silver reflector
held above the pastries, then fire the flash angled upward from below
(off to one side of the table) so as to hit the middle of the
reflector and spread an even light downward onto the tarts. The silver
surface would boost specular reflections off of the custard surface
and the fruit and get you nice sparkly points along with the bright
even light.
What about bounce off a white ceiling?
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