I don't think I could come up with a lighting situation that's much more challenging than this.
The candy case is completely lit from florescent lights in the back, and there's a sheet of glass reflecting lights from slot machines on the front. A single exposure long enough to properly expose the broad side of the candies will completely blow out the short side because there's too much contrast between what's lit and what's in shadows. Even thought the human eye can deal with this, digital cameras can't without lots of work on your part. You picked a happy medium on exposure, ended up with candies completely hidden in shadows, and other candies with all detail blown out in highlights. Overall the whole thing was underexposed, so you fixed it up the best you could in photoshop (and that's where you got all the color noise).
I think with a tripod to make several long exposures and a polarizing filter you could put together a HDR image that could get around the technical problems without having to bring in more lights -- not that anyone besides you would appreciate it. This composition just doesn't have much of an impact. |
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