{"id":406,"date":"2015-11-16T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.artofericjames.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-12-06T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T19:23:00","slug":"spice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/food.artofericjames.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/spice\/","title":{"rendered":"Spice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spices can be interesting subject matter all on their own.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I used this opportunity to utilizes some new (OLD) props in this shot. The rustic background wood was acquired by Todd Schultz, a fellow photographer and pilot friend of mine from a 150 year old abandoned farm house in North Dakota and the serving tray was found out in the backyard shed with its greenish hue weathered patina, I thought it would work quite well in this image as juxtaposed by the red flaking paint barely remaining on the background broads, creating a kind of a “Grungy” Christmas theme. I believe the tray may have belonged to my Grand mother (miss you Nana).<\/p>\n

The spices used are Star Anise, Cinnamon Sticks, Cloves & Pepper Corns. They would be great for Mulled wine during the Holiday Season and smelled incredible in the studio during the shoot.\u00a0 The set was illuminated with a couple of Paul C. Buff White Lightning model 600s Studio strobe lights.<\/p>\n

\"20151115_093810_HDR\"<\/a> One low and from the side with a 10\u00ba grid point source light to heighten the texture and the other from above with a 24″ reflector softened by using diffusion and channeled by a 30\u00ba grid. And of course a few reflector cards bouncing a bit of light were used to fill in some of the shadows. BTW, the set up shot was taken with my new LG G4 Cell Phone camera and I have to say I am most impressed by it so far. Imagine that, a fully manual settings capable cell phone camera with built-in HDR shooting in DNG format.
\nVery nice!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a92015 Eric James Swearingen
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Spices can be interesting subject matter all on their own. I used this opportunity to utilizes some new (OLD) props in this shot. The rustic background wood was acquired by Todd Schultz, a fellow photographer and pilot friend of mine from a 150 year old abandoned farm house in North Dakota and the serving tray… <\/p>\n

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