ICE CREAM FOR HOT LIGHTS
PHOTOGRAPHER’S COMMENT—Notes on the Ice Cream
Cone Set
Even though using fake ice cream gives the photographer more time
to work lighting, you still have to be ready to shoot because the
“melt” moves. Your set has to be lit, prepped, focused, and ready
to shoot when the cones are ready. The ice cream cone set has a
bright pink seamless background behind the cones and is lit with a
medium Chimera lightbank that fi lls the set. The key light is a small
lightbank set to the side that provides a raking effect to give texture
to the cones. The low angle of the camera will give you a better shot
of the face of the scoops and the front of the cones. I used a
Hasselblad H3D camera with a 50–110-mm lens.