Stock Shot Project

We just did a two day shoot in a restaurant, primarily in the kitchen where this photo was taken.  I am not counting the photo in the blog project because it was part of my normal stock shooting work flow. The kitchen was lit with four Nikon SB-900 flash units mixed with some of the tungsten ambient lights.  To have the burner flame record, I opened the Nikon 24-70mm lens to f/2.8, and set the shutter speed on the D3s to 1/30sec.  ISO was set at only 200.  I like working fairly wide open in situations like this because the shallow depth of field lends more of a believability factor the the shot.

This photo, however, is part of the project because it was not part of the shooting plan.  I spotted this beer tap at one of the bars in the restaurant and decided to take a pouring shot while waiting for the models to get ready.  There was some daylight in the room.  I augmented it with three Nikon SB-900 flash units, and shot wide open with the Nikon 85mm F/1.4 lens on a D3s.