I'd say you're way too critical on yourself. This is quite nice, great lighting and reflection. And I have no clue how you accomplished any of it except for cutting the yellow pepper in half.
Ummm, you can stop studying, I would say lesson learned. The relflection is perfect! Good use of color with the peppers. I think it's a great composition too.
you're being too hard on yourself - love the colours and I'm in love with the reflection! How did you do this? (Hope you had a nice salad afterwards with this yummy peppers :-))
I love the colour you've captured with this one. I would say that you have got that lighting down quite well already... it is always fun to study though. I love the use of three here!
Great lighting and reflections. Wondering what your table surface was made of. Composition shows depth with the placement of the peppers at different angles, yet still on the same plane.
1. Make sure you have hardly any room at all to work in. Piles of laundry in your way is especially useful.
2. Get two pieces of dirty black mat board and put one flat on a small, unstable table atop some books. The other, lean against the wall.
3. Find a piece of glass, maybe from a photo that's hanging on the wall if that's all you can find. Set it atop the flat laid mat.
4. Cut some veggies and eat some for nourishment before attempting this fete.
5. Place remaining veggies on the glass and set up your gorrila pod precariously near the edge of the table. Add camera.
6. Attach shutter release to camera and set to "bulb" mode.
7. Compose, set desired aperture, ISO and focus.
8. Turn off all lights in room.
9. Turn them back on so you can find your shutter release and a flashlight.
10. Turn them back off when you have above items in hand(s).
11. With flashlight in one hand, turn it on and start "painting" the veggies from above and to the sides, making sure to light up all those pesky shadowy areas.
12. Press your shutter release and hold it open for a count of 10. Or 15. or 35. or??
13. Still with me??
14. Cool. Once you've found a reasonable exposure, bring pixels into editor and remove all glass smudges and dirt streaks. Tone down or clone out any highlights on the freakin' shiny veggies. Adjust curves for contrast and color.
15. Basically, just edit the beejeebers out of it as needed.
Got it?! I trust you will keep this incredibly sophisticated secret just between us... ;-)
@aikiuser We are all now so much better off from your wisdom ... and thanks for the giggle :) he he!! (P.S - I'm inspired to give this a try.... I KNOW I definitely have laundry piles and I'm sure I can get a very dusty piece of glass somewhere!)
@aikiuser Now that is one explanation I love. Will really need to try this out. Fantastic!!! Don't worry, always have loads of dirty laundry lying about, lol.
If Edward Weston had been able to study your 15 steps to pepper photography his life would have been so much easier in creating his own works of art. A FAV from Fairfield County. It's never too late!
September 26th, 2011
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THANK YOU ! ! ! Your continued support is awesome and so much appreciated! ...and for those of you who asked how this was done, hold onto your seats, this is tricky:
1. Make sure you have hardly any room at all to work in. Piles of laundry in your way is especially useful.
2. Get two pieces of dirty black mat board and put one flat on a small, unstable table atop some books. The other, lean against the wall.
3. Find a piece of glass, maybe from a photo that's hanging on the wall if that's all you can find. Set it atop the flat laid mat.
4. Cut some veggies and eat some for nourishment before attempting this fete.
5. Place remaining veggies on the glass and set up your gorrila pod precariously near the edge of the table. Add camera.
6. Attach shutter release to camera and set to "bulb" mode.
7. Compose, set desired aperture, ISO and focus.
8. Turn off all lights in room.
9. Turn them back on so you can find your shutter release and a flashlight.
10. Turn them back off when you have above items in hand(s).
11. With flashlight in one hand, turn it on and start "painting" the veggies from above and to the sides, making sure to light up all those pesky shadowy areas.
12. Press your shutter release and hold it open for a count of 10. Or 15. or 35. or??
13. Still with me??
14. Cool. Once you've found a reasonable exposure, bring pixels into editor and remove all glass smudges and dirt streaks. Tone down or clone out any highlights on the freakin' shiny veggies. Adjust curves for contrast and color.
15. Basically, just edit the beejeebers out of it as needed.
Got it?! I trust you will keep this incredibly sophisticated secret just between us... ;-)
Looks great!