I'm going for a version of this. I have a silver reflector, so I'll try for this technique. Thanks, Bruce! Cheers, Christine
On Dec 29, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Larry Colen 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: >>> >>> >>> 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? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
