Blue & Orange

We start out my first post with my most recent photo to date. Here you will find only the photos that I like, and only my photos. Though a lot of these are going to be guided by David Hobby's blog where I find most if not all my inspiration. This here was shot with my soon to be retired Sony A700. This was lit with a total of three speedlites flashes. One to the left, another to the right and one above in a soft box. 

This here was shot on the same day. The study was "specular highlights". Which in layman's terms just means you want to control how harsh the reflection on a surface is. Too harsh and a photo looks ugly. I think I like how this came out. Soft reflections on the shiny stuff gives a better photo.

This was a simple two flash setup. One with a full CTB gel (Colour Temperature Blue) and a bare flash. 

*A gel is a sheet of thin plastic film you put over your flash to change the colour of a scene. In this case I changed the scene to blue.

This is the same setup but with the second flash gelled with a CTO (Colour Temperature Orange) gel.

Now the same but with the flashes with CTO gels instead of a mix of both CTB and CTO.

And a mix of both gels below...One CTO flash firing into the background and another CTB firing straight down into the shot glass.

The same without the blue now.