Food For Thought
I'm preparing a food photography class and needed a promotional image for the class. Naturally I wanted to do it inexpensively so I decided a simple shot of some cookies and milk might be a good option. So, on the way home from the camera store I stopped by the local grocery and grabbed a handful of cookies and some milk. But the milk isn't really milk. Its white school glue which makes an excellent milk substitute. The cookies were most definitely real. I was planning to shoot the final image with one of my new high resolution cameras but since my trusty old broken down 7D was handy I decided to use it for the test shots. Using an adapter I'd found, I mounted an old Pentax screw mount Zeiss lens to it. I began building my image and each test shot got me a little closer to what would be the final product. The process was going well until suddenly things came crashing down. You see, the brick wall in the background is much lighter than this image would suggest. I ne...