Create Citrus Balloon photoshoot

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If the weather’s too bad to venture outside, then grab some colourful fruit and brighten up your day with an indoor shoot. 
If you can find some blue dye and old plywood backgrounds to makeover. The vibrant color is inspiring for creating joyful image. This is the base element for citrus balloons creation.
Go grab some fruit in your house such as oranges and lemon. Cut it them a half and arange them on the background so that the look like a bunch of balloons. Then removed the fruit and glued a few pieces of rope to the background, adding the fruit back into the scene with the addition of a few kumquats and green leaves.
Setup your lighting that consist of flashgun positioned top-right of the image and reflector top-left. Placed the camera on a tripod above the setup, held the ends of the rope in one hand, and took the shot with your free hand.
You can use self-time, however it was quite easy to press the shutter in this small project scenario.

Place your fruit roughly in position before sticking down the string
to create the illusion of floating balloons.


Result

Additional info

Nikon D800 with 50mm f/1.8 prime lens and exposed for 1/160sec at f/8, with ISO set to 200.

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