Remin­is­cent of my strobist ambi­tions a while back here’s a photo I shot recently for the Happy­Shoot­ing assig­ment “weich”.

The idea was to show a boiled egg drop­ping onto the ground and shed­ding its skin. So I boiled an egg, peeled it very care­fully, arranged the skin and dropped the egg onto it. The over­all set-​up and making-​of of the photo can be seen here.

In more detail: I chose an oven tray as “stage” in order to get a slight reflec­tion (you know I like reflec­tions); the egg was lit using a com­bin­a­tion of flashes and some con­tinu­ous light. The lat­ter was meant to show a bit of motion blur, the former to freeze the pic­ture and provide some clar­ity and sharp­ness. In hind­sight, I should have had an even longer expos­ure time and a tad more con­tinu­ous light in order to get a longer and more vis­ible motion “trail”, but I was in a hurry and didn’t have too much time to fiddle around.

As back­ground I used a black shirt of mine, and since all of the light was com­ing from the flashes I got this nat­ur­ally black back­ground, without any extra post-​processing. In fact, there is zero PP in this pic­ture — what you see here is the out-​of-​the-​camera result!