50mm Challenge: Day 5
Again, the 50mm challenge again caught me for time, and I found myself wondering what I could photograph to fulfill today's requirements. I found inspiration in my recent grocery acquisition, and nothing in the pile is more interesting than the Jalapeno peppers. I decided to make use of some lighting for this shot, and positioned the peppers on the kitchen table.
To camera right is a speedlight with a yellow gel on it, and on camera left is a red gelled speedlight with a grid on the front of it and reduced by 1-stop of power. The master for the system was on top of the camera and pointed at the ceiling. The master was set to over expose by 1.3 stops, and the majority of the work was spent framing the shot so that no edges were in the background. I took about a dozen shots trying to find the right balance of the red highlights and the yellow and white fills.
I'm not fanatic about the quality of this shot, it is just a shot of some peppers after all. Two improvements would be for fresher peppers so that the dried out skins and stems don't draw from the shot, and a lower angle with a wider spread of peppers. I couldn't utilize a lower angle shot in this photo because the kitchen table is loaded with crap, and I was surprised I managed to get this much empty space.
