Popcorn!
f/5.6, 0.8″, ISO-100, 50mm, Flash
For the past several years I’ve worked part time at our local movie theatre as a manager/projectionist, and I’ve posted pictures of the place here before. I did several of them last summer as we were renovating the auditorium and balcony with new seating.
A couple of years ago we replaced the venerable popcorn tub with bags, which are easier to clean up and take up less space in the garbage can, which is ultimately a little cheaper for operation. Recently it came to our attention that patrons still longed for the tubs, and when the decision was made to bring them back, I decided to use my new flash to see if I could do up a promotional image for the event. I was still very new to flash photography, but I had the general idea of the image I wanted. I knew the hard part (for me) would be not getting unwanted shadows. I positioned the three tubs in front of the popper about 6 feet and bounced the flash off a gold reflector to add to the golden glow I wanted to achieve. I also used a very slow shutter speed given that I was using strobe lighting. But the point of the flash wasn’t to light the scene so much as add richness and color to it.
Popcorn by Anthony Bopp is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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The popcorn looks great and so does the photo. I’ll take three please…buckets.
The colors are so vibrant, just pop out of the shot! Well done !
I love this ! Now I want to go make some popcorn for myself.