Cutting the umbilical

[the foto fanatic]

Dual off-camera flash:

[surenj]

Interesting concept and the tomatoes look very fresh with the water droplets. What was your lighting set up? Also on my uncalibrated monitor the background looks slightly warmish.

[the foto fanatic]

Interesting concept and the tomatoes look very fresh with the water droplets. What was your lighting set up? Also on my uncalibrated monitor the background looks slightly warmish.

So long ago, I'm not sure I remember! I'd given up on receiving comments for this one.

The tomatoes are on a polyurethane cutting board - it was not a brilliant white, which might explain what you are seeing. I set a custom WB using a grey card, and the exposure was set using a flash meter.

The cutting board and the tomatoes were placed in a light tent. Main light was a Nikon SB800 camera left, and I also used another SB800 high to the rear. Both flashes were set manually, but I can't recall the actual settings, except that the rear flash was dialled down somewhat.

I fired the flashes using the BIF in Commander mode,but with no light output. Nikon D700 with Nikon 28-70mm.

Hope that answers your questions. Thanks for your interest.

[surenj]

Thanks for the info about the lighting setup. I am always keen to figure out the lighting in each shot for my learning.

On second look, I think the warm spilloff might be light reflecting from the romatoes to the cutting board.