It was a wonderful day today, weatherwise, and I had made plans to get a whole bunch of yardwork done. But for whatever reason, I got side tracked, and set about constructing this little still life arrangement.....ya gotta go with the flow! The lighting was a real departure from what I usually do. Instead of setting up my LED lights for this, I experimented with some "home made" lighting. The main light from the left rear is just a remote flash bounced into a silver circular reflector on a stand. It was triggered by the on camera fill light, which was a plastic rectangular shaped ice cream container with a hole cut into it just big enough for my little on camera flash to fit into it. The opening was covered with a white cloth with an elastic around it to keep it in place...something like a lady's shower cap. This contraption gave me a very soft fill light, with no harsh shadows. The ratio is about 3 to 1, and helps add more texture to the scene, which already has lots of texture in the pineapple and the burlap cloth. It was a lot of fun to experiment and try something different. You'll never know until you try, and I have always felt that you can do a lot with some very simple items. Oh by the way, the fruit was absolutely delicious afterward....Cheers!
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