A Hot Tea and a Good Book


… enjoy the end of a long day.

My submission for the weekly photo challenge at PhotoFriday.com, you can find it as entry #204.

The Setup

Overall I used three flashes, two YN560 and one FL-36R:

  • A DIY salad-bowl beauty-dish with grid provided the overhead main light, casting some soft shadows.
  • One flash was positioned behind the glass and shaded in a way, so it only hit the steam above the glass.
  • The last flash had a make-shift double-slottet blind, providing a narrow accent light from the front:


 

Strobist Photography

After years of “available light only”, I’m recently discovering the additional freedom of strobist or flash photography. See below the results of my first tries:


Let me know what you think!
Tim