I just happened to have made this image today and stumbled upon the product shot challenge. Some might argue I'm stretching the term 'product' shot a bit, which is true.
Anyway, I managed to recover the original NEF before conversion to DNG, so I won't get DQ'd a second time.
Recipe 80g butter - 1/2 cup brown sugar - zest from 1 lemon - 3 eggs - 1,5 cup flour - 1 packet baking soda - 1 teaspoon cinnamon - 1,25dl milk - 1/2 cup raisins - 1 apple (peeled, halved and sliced) - 1 tablespoon apricot jam.
Preheat oven to 180°C
Soften the butter and mix with brown sugar. Add lemon zest.
Beat in eggs one-by-one.
Sift flour and cinnamon into large bowl and mix in the butter/sugar mixture, the milk and the raisins.
Pour into greased baking pan and arrange the apple slices on top.
Bake for 55-60min.
Remove from oven onto cooling rack and spread the apricot jam on top.
Yummy !
Setup info Camera/lens : D300 & 17-55/2.8
A picture of the setup here.
Main light from window behind the subject to camera right.
Fill light from SB800 @ 1/32 & 24mm through white brolly from front/left of subject.
White foamcore (not shown on setup) hand-held under lens to provide additional fill.
Before setting up any lights I figured out which diaphragm would render the desired depth of field. Shooting tethered to my MacBook made this really easy.
I eventually chose f7.1
I measured correct exposure for ambient to be 1/50 (ISO200), this kept the whole scene well-exposed with a slight over-exposure to the back-right of the scene.
Similar set-ups on similar days had taught me that 1/32 was a good starting value for the SB800. A test shot quickly confirmed that I was in the right ball-park.
I then proceded to move the SB800 backwards slightly until the exposure looked balanced.
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