So last semester, we had a midterm project on composition and lighting. Our assigment was to create 5-6 images of the same subject. To hone my skills in food photogpahy, i choose to do fruits and vegetables. THe most important thing i have learned from this project is ………. MIRRORS are aweesome! In many of my shots, mirrors gave me alot of fill and specular highlights. Mirrors are useful because they are small and gives you precision lighting. I love you mirrors.
Main light coming from the right. A mirror to give fill on the left. Notice that awesome highlight on the apple!? yep…thats from a mirror.
Main light on the back of the lemon, used a mirror for fill in the front. Yep yep! the specular spots on the lemon was created by the mirror!
For this shot, the main light is coming from the back. This not only creates nice backlight, but also illuminates that lemon and makes it “glow”. One huge mirror in the front. (notice the sparkly kiwi)
I love mirrors. The end.
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i never saw these pictures before! they’re awesome! i felt like i was looking at the intro of rachel ray’s cookbook~! awesome! haha 8)
love… i want to do this in our new home- our foyer & stairwell are cainllg out for an antique mirror collection! and by antique, i mean old, crusty & shabby & cheap! ha!have a great day-rachel
I love vintage mriorrs too. I need to find a way to hang them since they don’t have hardware. I just found your blog and find it very inspiring.