Making It Come to Me

At least for the moment, there's no gathering in restaurants.  One of life's real treasures, sharing of food and drink made by someone else.  But that's just not possible right now so I built my own.
It's a pop up, it went up yesterday, coming down today.

Since I can't have knowledge of how much knowledge you have, I'll briefly explain some salient points in the photo above.
The black silhouette in the middle is the camera which is tethered ( here by a physical wire) to the computer (on the left) which allows for near instant relay to the big screen after the exposure.  So much better to work like this where you can see it large.  Many of the movements that happen in commercial photography are small and they are much easier to see when the image is big.

The front table and chairs have been raised up, this was done for the perspective relationship of the camera height, the wine bottle and elements in the rear.

The front hanging lamp is actually behind the table, it worked better visually.  The front strobe did most of the heavy lifting as far as lighting the table.


A new client from right down the street.  High end chocolate in various forms.  Since he's somewhat small, I take most of the payment in product.  Here, close to ten pounds of the pure stuff and some of the small bites.
He does his own Photoshop to keep his cost down so disregard the state of surface on the small bites.