Cooking Light

The first 'proper' assignment posted on Strobist is called Cooking Light. It basically requests an image of a kitchen object for a catalogue or restaurant wall. The idea is to use the techniques covered so far. I spent a good couple of hours messing around with kitchen utensils to try to find something suitable. The application of decent light to most of the items in the kitchen highlighted nicely how scratched they are. Glasses were particularly disappointing. You'd think we loaded our dishwashers with sand in New Zealand. I finally settled on a close up shot of our Campagnolo corkscrew, if you happen to be a cyclist you will appreciate that Campagnolo make the best road cycling componentry available. Anyway that is definitely off the subject. I was a bit worried that I had gone for an easy subject but in the end I'm reasonably happy with it. There are nice highlights on the screw and the rim surrounding it. The timber of the table on which it rests matches the tones in the bronze material and the subject to background lighting is balanced. The nearest arm is out of focus and this maybe does not work. There are some amazing examples posted by other Strobist readers in response to this assignment.