Copyright © 2008 Josh Audette

My fiancee made some soap this weekend. They turned out really well.
I thought I would use them to practise my lighting skills. The best
one ended up by the bathroom sink before I could get hold of it for
pictures, otherwise it would have been the centrepiece.

This was taken with one strobe, a homemade white reflector (cardboard +
white paper) and homemade diffuser (paper towel sheets). I think this
turned out really well. Not very much post-processing at all:
cropping, no levels/curves, and moderate USM (large radius) to increase
the contrast in the soap's texture/patterns.

I wish I had some coloured paper; I don't like the white background.

I used an OM Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 lens on an OM-4/3 adapter and forgot to
update the EXIF data appropriately:

Focal length: 28mm
Aperture: f/16

ISO should have been 100 but I'd forgotten to reset it from a previous
photo shoot - DOH!