Back since a long time

It's been too long since I posted here. I thought I'd celebrate it by applying a new layout to this blog. Hope you like it.

I have been experimenting a bit with product photography. As I recently purchase a set of Altec Lansing speakers for my iPod, I thought it might be fun to create an image of this that could be used in an advert for the speakers: setting must be outdoors, as the speakers can work on batteries (11 hours lifetime!!). So, I decided to photograph the speakers out on the terrace.


This is the result.

I created the picture with the following tools:

• Nikon D80
• Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF
• SB-800 flash

The iPod speakers are in the shadow of a sun umbrella, the background is in the full sun. I first created a photograph without flash, underexposing with 2 stops, making sure the iPod speakers are too dark and the background is slightly underexposed.

I then added flash to the camera left. Flash was set to TTL, no modifications. I think the result is quite OK, maybe even useful for a magazine.

Let me know what you think!