CHAPTER TWOPHOTOGRAPHER’S COMMENT—Notes on the Dish Set at the
Beginning of This Chapter
This editorial style shot of a white table setting for four with no food
is a backlighting dream. I used a Chimera lightbank to give a soft
white glow over the table and a medium bank on the left side to
even out the light and fi ll the shadows. Both banks were set on very
low power so the majority of the light was natural since we built the
set in front of one of the windows in my studio. My point of focus
was in the middle of the bowl in front, and with the low power of
the strobe packs and use of ambient light, I easily got a shallow
depth of fi eld.