Spare time at the office and 50 garlic bulbs

Today I found myself working through my list of products very quickly and had an hour to spare at the end of the day. My boss is always keen to say that if you are not shooting, you are not making money. With that in mind, I decided to focus my portfolio work.

I noticed a box of garlic bulbs which had been used for a client at the back end of last week, and thought it would be a good idea to try and create a market style shot of fresh produce.

I have used very simple lighting to generate the two shots below. It is simply two softboxes at opposite corners of the set up with a difference of about a stop in power. I also placed one of the lamps a little further away from the table to gain some contrast. This helps to give the image a more tone as setting them to the same power made the image look flat.

I believe that when shooting fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables they always look so much fresher then they are wet. To do this, I have sprayed them with a water gun and think that it really adds to the image.