Comments on: Smarties have the answer! http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20090218/smarties-have-the-answer/ Photos of Phones and Phonographs (occasionally) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20090218/smarties-have-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Paul Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:55:25 +0000 http://www.paulseward.com/blog/?p=690#comment-355 I bought 4 tubes of smarties, but by the time I'd picked out all the blue ones for the theme there weren't enough to fill in the sherry glass so there's a pile of carefully arranged brown and green smarties at the back. Now that you mention it, the orange is distracting, it's a reflection of the table the glass is standing on. If I'd noticed it last night I'd have put down some black paper to kill it. Lighting is a blue gelled Vivitar283 for the background on about 3/4 power (the blue gel eats loads of light!) and a Vivitar283 on about 1/2 power, with a black-drinking-straw-grid on the front high up camera right. Ambient lights turned off to try and kill some of the stray highlights in the glass. If I was reshooting, I'd turn down the grid flash a touch, and bounce some light in from camera left to fill that shadow slightly. I would also buy another 10 tubes of smarties, but at 50p a go that's more than I'm willing to spend on this shot! I bought 4 tubes of smarties, but by the time I’d picked out all the blue ones for the theme there weren’t enough to fill in the sherry glass so there’s a pile of carefully arranged brown and green smarties at the back.
Now that you mention it, the orange is distracting, it’s a reflection of the table the glass is standing on. If I’d noticed it last night I’d have put down some black paper to kill it.
Lighting is a blue gelled Vivitar283 for the background on about 3/4 power (the blue gel eats loads of light!) and a Vivitar283 on about 1/2 power, with a black-drinking-straw-grid on the front high up camera right. Ambient lights turned off to try and kill some of the stray highlights in the glass.
If I was reshooting, I’d turn down the grid flash a touch, and bounce some light in from camera left to fill that shadow slightly. I would also buy another 10 tubes of smarties, but at 50p a go that’s more than I’m willing to spend on this shot!

]]> By: Colin Morey http://www.paulseward.com/blog/20090218/smarties-have-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Colin Morey Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:04:39 +0000 http://www.paulseward.com/blog/?p=690#comment-353 I only see blue smarties, did you eat all the others ... hmm, hmm,? I assume that the blue light on the back is from a gel? the yellowness of the glass looks a little odd though.. I only see blue smarties, did you eat all the others … hmm, hmm,?

I assume that the blue light on the back is from a gel? the yellowness of the glass looks a little odd though..

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