Since we're now officially in the Holiday Season, family gatherings and huge meals are to be scheduled and attended. This means that it is time for My Lovely Assistant to shine. She created this wonderful three-layered cake with caramelized pears and almond cookie trees. It took her a fair amount of time, yet still much less time than I spent trying to photograph it. I tried to find just the right amount of flash to properly light the cake, yet also keep the background darker so that we can see the reflection of the Christmas lights on the glass table surface. I ended up taking the photograph at f/3.2, 1/20sec, ISO 800 at 24mm while bouncing some flash off of the ceiling down onto the cake, and also using up a four-pack of AA batteries while taking all of the test shots in the process. The neighbours must have thought that we were having one heck of a party with all of the lights going off. Hats off to My Lovely Assistant and her wonderful talents.
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