On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/29/2011 1:56 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> 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?
Yup. Cheapest solution of them all! :-) Narrow the flash's beam as tight as she'll go and blast away. Likely have to up the power about 2 stops to compensate for poor reflectivity and the extra distance and light spread. The AF540 or 360 should handle it. Or even "lower the ceiling" with a hunk of white poster board (or foam-core) held above the pastries. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
