Doesn't this image make you thirsty for a cool summertime drink?I visualized this image starting with the colors, in this case the orange-blue complementary color pair. I picked up an orange (...Hey,what's more orange than an orange?) at the grocery store for the foreground and a shiny blue sack (...the kind used for birthday presents) at the drug store for the background.
After suspending the orange slice in a small glass bowl with unbent paper clips, I got out my 60 mm macro lens, added Perrier sparkling water to the bowl and fired away!
The shot was lit with an AB800 monoblock flash (from above camera right) covered with a piece of white printer paper to soften it a bit. The clear glass bowl was sitting on a silver reflector to reflect light back up from below. Notice how the shallow depth of field of the macro lens (...at f/6.3, ISO 100, and 1/250 sec) kept the background nicely out of focus, so it wouldn't compete for attention with the orange slice and the bubbles.
-CG TTL
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