These past few days, I’ve been researching on how to use my newly purchased 2nd hand SB-800 Speedlight. Photographing after work doesn’t necessarily give me the daylight I so long for so I set about creating a mini studio on my dining room table. You could buy yourselves a light tent or…you could do what I did and try to create something remotely studio-like using items you normally have lying around. After much tweeking and fiddling with the controls, these were the shots I got:

I’m not overly pleased with them as I felt a 2nd flash on the left would have made the pictures a whole lot better. The top right hand side of the pictures were whiter than the left hand side…mainly due to the fact that I only had one flash source. I used a white foam board on the left to bounce off as much light as possible. I find the peppers situated on the right a tad too overexposed as compared to the ones on the right.

Also, I didn’t quite get the focus and depth of field right. All in all, it definitely was an experience and good fun but something I’ve yet to master.

If you’re interested in the set-up, have a look: