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The Artisan Bakery : homemade apple cake
The Artisan Bakery : homemade apple cake
Tom_Robbrecht


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Product Shot (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: My living room
Date: Sep 7, 2008
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Sep 7, 2008

 I just happened to have made this image today and stumbled upon the product shot challenge. Some might argue I'm stretching the term 'product' shot a bit, which is true.
Anyway, I managed to recover the original NEF before conversion to DNG, so I won't get DQ'd a second time.

Recipe
80g butter - 1/2 cup brown sugar - zest from 1 lemon - 3 eggs - 1,5 cup flour - 1 packet baking soda - 1 teaspoon cinnamon - 1,25dl milk - 1/2 cup raisins - 1 apple (peeled, halved and sliced) - 1 tablespoon apricot jam.

Preheat oven to 180°C
Soften the butter and mix with brown sugar. Add lemon zest.
Beat in eggs one-by-one.
Sift flour and cinnamon into large bowl and mix in the butter/sugar mixture, the milk and the raisins.
Pour into greased baking pan and arrange the apple slices on top.
Bake for 55-60min.
Remove from oven onto cooling rack and spread the apricot jam on top.
Yummy !

Setup info
Camera/lens : D300 & 17-55/2.8
A picture of the setup here.
Main light from window behind the subject to camera right.
Fill light from SB800 @ 1/32 & 24mm through white brolly from front/left of subject.
White foamcore (not shown on setup) hand-held under lens to provide additional fill.

Before setting up any lights I figured out which diaphragm would render the desired depth of field. Shooting tethered to my MacBook made this really easy.
I eventually chose f7.1
I measured correct exposure for ambient to be 1/50 (ISO200), this kept the whole scene well-exposed with a slight over-exposure to the back-right of the scene.
Similar set-ups on similar days had taught me that 1/32 was a good starting value for the SB800. A test shot quickly confirmed that I was in the right ball-park.
I then proceded to move the SB800 backwards slightly until the exposure looked balanced.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/14/2008 05:20:05 PM
Very nice arrangement. You get the message across well.
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 09/13/2008 05:02:06 PM
Yummy! The lighting looks natural and that makes the scene that much more enjoyable. It makes me hungry for apple pie. Very effective.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/13/2008 10:20:48 AM
beautiful....home and garden would love this! 10
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 09/12/2008 06:12:55 AM
Nice choice of ingredients, that look good on the photography.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/11/2008 01:57:54 PM
A wonderful photo, very nice lighting, a very good setup. The cake looks delicious! If this were an ad it would be very effective.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/10/2008 01:30:23 PM
I'd buy this for sure! Looks yummy! 10!
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 09/09/2008 03:55:15 PM
apple cake? sounds good
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/09/2008 02:09:40 PM
Would have done well in the recipe challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/09/2008 10:40:22 AM
and now I'm hungry =) really well done!
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 09/09/2008 06:11:32 AM
I really like the composition.
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 09/08/2008 10:53:48 AM
looks like one of those Christmas catalogs I get every year, well done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/07/2008 08:59:59 PM
Yum! Now this makes me want to try a piece of pie!
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 09/07/2008 08:34:31 PM
yum
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