CHAPTER TEN● Wood skewers
● Small wire cutters
● One jar lemon cake fi lling
● Th ree containers of prepared cream cheese frosting
● Hand-painted surface by Brad G. Rogers
PHOTOGRAPHER’S COMMENT—Notes on Lemon Cake Set
White icing and yellow cake. How do we keep detail in both? I used
a Chimera lightbank overhead and somewhat to the back of the set
and a medium lightbank with a 40% grid on the right side with a
fi ll card to the left—not too close. The grid over the lightbank
fractures the soft light, giving you the light you need for texture in
the icing. My 4 × 5 camera with Hasselblad 39MS digital back is at
a high angle and supported by a really strong Gitzo Pro Studex tripod.
Never put a 4 × 5 or medium-format camera on a small tripod when
shooting from a high angle.