20091005-2827 Dried Pears

I've had these pears drying on my window sill for quite a while, waiting, shrinking, accumulating strange growths; essentially begging to be a photo. Little did I know that this project would end up consuming the better part of an evening, and even then I still didn't get exactly what I had planned. That's what I get for thinking a one light setup should be easy. Maybe what I really needed was a third pear standing in the rear, deep in the shadows and barely visible.

There is a lot of cool texture in the skins, unfortunately all my macros were either out of focus or underexposed too much to make a decent image. I'll play with them some more I'm sure.

Strobist info:
Flash set on 1/64 power, shoved into a large white plastic bowl with diffusion material over it, (which became like a giant softbox for these little guys) held just out of frame top left. Used a white shirt-box as a fill reflector, just out of frame camera right.

20091005-2827 Dried Pears

I've had these pears drying on my window sill for quite a while, waiting, shrinking, accumulating strange growths; essentially begging to be a photo. Little did I know that this project would end up consuming the better part of an evening, and even then I still didn't get exactly what I had planned. That's what I get for thinking a one light setup should be easy. Maybe what I really needed was a third pear standing in the rear, deep in the shadows and barely visible.

There is a lot of cool texture in the skins, unfortunately all my macros were either out of focus or underexposed too much to make a decent image. I'll play with them some more I'm sure.

Strobist info:
Flash set on 1/64 power, shoved into a large white plastic bowl with diffusion material over it, (which became like a giant softbox for these little guys) held just out of frame top left. Used a white shirt-box as a fill reflector, just out of frame camera right.