Another Spoonful Setup - a photo on Flickriver

            Setup for backlighting a spoon of sugar, using a combination of a DIY light table and difusser panel.
Hopefully not too blown out to be able to see the curved line of the Fax paper used as the backdrop and prop the spoon up at an angle.  This is held in place with a couple of clothes pegs, very useful to have around the place.
What wont be obvious here, is that 2 flashes are being used.  Both are Neewer SF-01 mini slave flashes (very cheap and compact).  The one on view is mounted on a Blazzeo SLT-4 radio trigger and mini tripod.  The second is masked by the sides of the difussion panel and is mounted on a small flash stand and pointing into the bottom of the light table.  This one uses it's optical sensor to trigger from the output of the radio triggered flash.  Very versatile these little flashes :)

The black card at the sides (closest side removed for this shot) and the small piece to the front are to give a dark reflection to the sides of the highly reflective spoon.
Also not shown, is a white reflector which was hand held above to stop reflection of the ceiling and room lights above and bounce some light back onto the subject.
If I had a large softbox, I would have used that above instead.  Something to add to my shopping list , or maybe I should make one:)

Might sound complicated, but it's not really.
   

Taken on: October 14, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 300D, f/11.0, 1/160 sec, 27mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 300D
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	27mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Average
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
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