My goal was to create in an ordinary space an imperfect composition. Not everything always needs to be clean and perfect to be accepted.
Four flashes have been used to capture this photograph, one Scoro 3200 S and one Siros 800 L. Here it was important to chose the right light shapers to get the wanted reflections on the shiny objects.
The first light was the Litepipe P with the counter reflectors and in combination with the Siros 800 L for the basic atmosphere. The counter reflectors made the light shaper smaller and I automatically gained more control over the illumination. It created a nice long reflection on the bottle.
Which light was responsible for the reflections behind the bottle? In this case it was P70 reflector combined with the narrowest honeycomb grid. The honeycomb grid gave the light more direction and didn’t destroy the ambience. This rather hard light gave the image a certain sparkle and different reflections.
The next step was to illuminate the small glass correctly. My focus was to set the light only to this particular spot. A Picolite is of course a great choice. The Picolite is our smallest effect lamp combined with the projection attachment. The projection attachment is a compact and precise light shaper.
The last step was to give an overall illumination. That was done with a P70 reflector and a strip grid 5:1. That combination gave a crisp, hard look, but at the same time, because of the strip grid the whole length of the table was nicely lit.
This image was shot with a focal length of 120mm and an f-stop of 16.
The shutter speed was 1/125.
by Jessica Keller
