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Creating different looks with a salad

Creating different looks with a salad

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Creating different looks with a salad

I'm working with Claire Stancer, our food stylist, to create a salad shot that looks like it took place on a kitchen counter with some window light as our light source. We're going to get two looks out of our salad, one that will be fairly static and the other that'll have a little bit more call to action, a drizzle. I've set up my lighting to capture a certain feel for the light, late- afternoon direct light. So let me go over what I've done with our lighting. So I have a strobe light that's off camera over here to the left, and it's using the direct head to give the feel of direct sunlight coming in on our countertop. So I've got a little stand in, and I'm just going to test the lighting right now, one more time. And I'm looking at it to see what our lighting ratio looks like, and I can see our light's a little bit harsh. So I'm going to pull in a little fill card, and I'm going to use our mirrored surface fill card and see how that works. Okay. Okay, so that's a little bit of an…

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