Previous indoor photo projects: (Indoor Photo Project: The Teleport, Continued Fun with Refractography, Indoor Photo Project: Flying through a Black Hole, or Discovering Refractographs, Indoor Photo Project: The Mysterious Planet, Indoor Photo Project - Recycling at its Best and Free Heat, Indoor Photo Project - Water Gone Wild, Vividly and Colorfully Wild, )

Paper Mache BowlsMinimalist High Key

Something altogether different for today's post. No natural or city landscapes but rather a very simple still life. My family created the paper mache bowls and as they were sitting on the window sill to dry up they immediately caught my attention.

I knew right away I wanted to photograph them and photograph them on a white background to give it the high key look you can see here. It's a great challenge to set the lights up so that the bowls have a nice definition and their textures come across clearly. And for today's post the white theme goes nicely with the outside world, which is also all about white!

I ended up with a two-light set up. One SB-600 flash into an umbrella from top right to provide a dose of diffused directional light and another SB-600 with its built-in diffuser for the background. I tried dirfferent arrangements, knocked one down to make it stand out, turned them around, but in the end liked my initial take with all of them standing the most.

I hope you liked the change of pace today. Feel free to hit How To Paper Mache or other Internet resources to get your own ideas to create and photograph. Have fun!

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More resources: Paper Mache Dragons by Dan Reeder, Papier Mache Monsters by Dan Reeder