Pepper shots

[desertdave]

A couple of pepper shots from yesterday. CC please, Thanks for looking

 

[kundalini]

An abomination! Crown Royal should be drunk neat.

The use of a difusser would be handy in situations such as this to soften the incoming window light. This will help with reducing/eliminating the hotspots and specular highlights.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Looks like it was the pop-up flash or an on-cam flash in pic 2 pointed right at it blowing it out?

 

[GeorgieGirl]

Dude has Shun knives, too...

 

[desertdave]

Thanks for the feed back. No flash, but the light in the first one is kind of harsh. The second was painted with an led, trying to capture the glossy feeling, overdone I guess. I'll try again, thanks for the input.

 

[jasonphoto]

Nice pepper shot! I wanna put it on top of mushroom soup.

 

[WesternGuy]

Interesting subject, not one I would have thought of, but I am not in to shooting raw vegetables, but if it works for you - definitely shows some out of the box thinking. As far as the reflections are concerned, as noted, a diffuser would help and I think, if it was me, I might have tried a polarizer - it won't cut down all the reflections, but it could help reduce a lot of them.

Cheers,

WesternGuy

 

[Ron Evers]

#1: Set up the shot outside in the shade with the background far enough away to blur it out. As it is, I am distracted by the background.