I used to shoot my wife's cakes and pastries (she was the chief pastry chef at a rather famous Detroit bakery until she retired.) I generally just used flash bounced off a white ceiling with a bit of direct coming off a diffuser. With the AF 540 that's easily accomplished by aiming the flash at the ceiling at an angle of about 170 degrees and the little white card pulled up. Just about perfect for this type of shot.
Paul On Dec 29, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > 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. -- 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.
