Red - Coffee

I went to get a coffee today at the local coffee shop and to my surprise the coffee cups say "RED" on them ! what luck. I grabbed the coffee and ran home.


I set my camera on the desk about a foot away from the coffee cup. I attached my SB600 strobe and set it to "auto" TTL, pointed it up to the ceiling and attached a bounce card. This way the flash would bounce light to fill the room a bit and to lighten up the front of the cup a bit more. The camera was set to Manual with Shutter speed of 2.5 and an Aperture of 3.5. I added a +1 to the exposure and used a ISO of 100. The lens was at about 19mm. This shot was cropped down to an angle I liked best. In post editing I boosted the contrast slightly for a crisper look.