Bakery photoshoot
No one likes to post images they’re not 100% happy with. This is a case of me being happy enough with how this turned out under the circumstances.
I was lighting this one with two off-camera flashes. I had a main flash on a lead, camera right and a secondary flash to the left and behind the subject.
I had a few minutes to figure out exposure levels but really had only ten minutes to get in and out. This was a bakery classroom and there were students coming and going, retrieving their baked goods from the ovens here. So I was under some pressure. And it was hot in there.
I took a test shot, sans flash, to figure out where I wanted my ambient, and planned to go full ETTL with both flashes.
Things didn’t go to plan though, and what I thought was a technical malfunction turned out to be a missed setting that I didn’t know existed, which made the slave fire but not the master.
And I’m usually the guy yelling “READ THE MANUAL” the loudest.
I upped my ambient a bit but was was cautious of some very reflective surfaces and the very yellow walls, which, combined with the flouro lights that could cause some very serious colour problems.
He wasn’t the smiliest chap either, so under the circs, I’m satisfied with the result.
You’re always your own worst critic though, so here, just look at the photo while I revise my flash manual.
