A Fantastic Blend

My second try for the first Strobist 102 assignment. I know it's not a kitchen utensil... more like a kitchen utility, but I think this achieves more of what I had in mind when this assignment was given.

Lighting info: Two 550EX flashes. One shot through half a shoot-through umbrella, with an Omnibounce and CTO gel over the flash head. A second 550 was placed on the table next to the subject, and shot at the background. A Coroplast gridspot and blue gel focused and colored the background spot.

Not the setup shot for this particular image, but very close:

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The DR is IN

Keeping up with Strobist 102, in choosing a shiny object on which to study specular highlights, I decided to try a bit of product photography.

My setup included two Canon 550EX flashes, a white, plastic colander (yes, a noodle strainer), a glass table, a white box, and a piece of paper.

One 550EX was CTO'd, zoomed to 105mm and set at 1/4 or 1/8 power, fired from behind the white box which was positioned both as a reflector and a gobo, into the colander. The other flash was set around 1/8 power, zoomed to 70mm and fired at the background, through the glass table.

I hope you find this Dr Pepper as refreshing as I did!

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