On the topic of my last post on "Cake Humor", I decided I could be on a roll with more cake love this week.
This one is pretty simple because you have the total choice on how you want to shoot this setup. I chose to add color in my example because the background and other ambient colors presented themselves. I honestly believe either shot will make a great album photo, or a super folio shot for that vendor.
In addition to adding some flashflavor, I'd like to talk about the super high performance of the 5d II at HIGH ISO. I love shooting with my big monster heavy 85 1.2 at wedding receptions. Back in the Old 5d days (we still use them and love them) I could only get away with 1250 ISO as a max and still loved that paired with the 85 1.2 glass. Well smack me silly when you can shoot at 4000 ISO and at a safe 1/200th of a second. The 85 can be very hard to get great focus and you always jeopardize sharpness with slower shutters, 1/60th - 1/125th.
both images were shot at ISO 4000 F1.8 at 1/200. The first one shot IN JPG mode, at 2800k. NO FF Value.
The 2nd image was shot at exactly the same settings but with a purple gel on an SB-28 Strobe triggered by PW set to 1/32 power. I shot this using the 5d's AUTO WB setting.
I hope this can throw another idea in your toolbox with the cake table.... If we want to keep shooting weddings....we must keep shooting the cake, eh?
Cheers!
matt
Hola Matt, donde colocastes el flash? por detrás del pastel? la diferencia de las cores son muchas, ni parece que era un unico flash…
great shot!!! man, you make me really wanna finance my house for a 5DMmkII…
Thanks Carlos for the time to comment! Glad to help an addict get a fix :)
Bill.... not sure about being the best...but thank you for your kind words Amigo! I did actually mess around with the WB. We shot a few hand fulls of different cake shots for the full folio. When I used flash for this example, I went 2 ways. First, AWB. Second, I set 2800K and shot that way. Those are the only 2 tweaks for this setup that I used. The 2800K gives the bride & groom an option with more sass for their album, if they wish to choose that. The other shot gives a more balanced whiter look (with the cake’s actual color in mind), call this my “safe shot” technique. Essentially, my messing around was using AWB, if you can go figure on that one :)
Your work is pretty much the best out there. I love almost everything you have done on your site, but I’m not sure I like the cake in pink. Did you try messing around with the WB to turn the cake white and the light around it blue? I’d like to see what that looks like.
Just love your use of color and light. Your tips are inspiring. Confessed FF addict!.