And I guess I'll start us off this week--this was my assignment for last week for Project 52 Pros (I shot it tonight--a day past deadline...oops). We were to come up with an illustration for a story about the new year, and I decided to make it ambiguous. You could look at it as a mysterious gift or treasure, or you could interpret as Pandora's box. Who knows what the year holds? But let's hope for the former, right? I also went for some symbolism and included the hourglass, which had just been turned.
2016: A Mysterious Gift by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr
Used the 85mm 1.8G for this one. ISO 100, f4.5, 1/100. Three speedlights: one gelled with orange and yellow inside the box (which had a piece of white paper taped to the lid to spill the light back onto the table a bit), one above and behind my sweet model to light her hair a bit (draped the diffuser cover from my softbox over it), and one more camera left quite a few feet back to light the back of the chest.
My six-year-old has informed me just how unoriginal this idea is. After seeing the picture, she said excitedly, "Lots of movies have light coming out of a book or a box." Sigh... Well, at least I got some good lighting practice.