Blue Balls

Blue Balls

Back in 2010, one of our assigned top­ics for the the Sch­enec­tady Pho­to­graphic Soci­ety monthly print com­pe­ti­tion was the topic “Blue”.   After much con­sid­er­a­tion on how to approach this, I came up with this image.  It actu­ally took first place much to my sur­prise and delight.

The image is not Pho­to­shopped other then for some detail sharp­en­ing.  It is as it appears.  Shot inside a table­top tent using 3 strobes (sb-900 as key, and 2 sb-800’s as fill and back light­ing.  I added blue gels to the back and fill lights.  The back­light was shot from the rear fac­ing foward thru some plants I had on the table to give it some char­ac­ter and tex­ture.    The glass, btw, was already blue.  The planter bulbs were var­i­ous colors.

Shot with my Nikon 700 using a 24-70mm at 1/40th sec on f5.6 at 50mm with iso 200.