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I only discovered Jones Soda a few months ago. When I had my first one, I thought "Where have you been all my life!?!?" It was so full of flavor, much different than my regular old pop I would usually have with my lunch. And the best part is all the flavors it comes in!! I'm pretty sure these two are my favs for now, I'm also a big fan of the Orange & Cream, it reminds me of Orange Creamsickles that I used to love as a kid. So today's blog post is dedicated to the supreme awesomeness of the beverages produced by Jones Soda. Check them out here, and learn more about just how sweet this stuff really is. Keep in mind I do not get anything from these guys for doing this, I'm just a guy who loves Jones, and wanted to let the world know..well at least those on the internet that read this thing!! It also gave me a great opportunity to take some pics of Jones, that I shot today. Shot with a single SB-900 flash slightly right of the camera and high above the bottles, I used to sheets of white foamcore in front of them to lighten up the shadows as well. Thanks for looking, and hope you're thirsty, I'm gonna go have a Jones Soda right NOW!!
Photo: Nikon D90, 17-55mm f/2.8, SB-900 @ 1/4 power.
Well, the past 24 hours have been quite productive for me in a photographic sense. For the past few weeks I have been reading about off camera flash, and considering buying a flash to add to my camera bag. So I was in luck when I found out a co-worker of mine has an Nikon SB-800 and said I could borrow it to try it out. I am an avid reader of the Strobist web site, and last week there was a really cool video on how to use off camera flash to capture water drops. So for my first attempt at off camera flash, this is what I chose to try out.
Now the possibilities of off camera flash spread WAYYYYY beyond lighting water drops, but this is for sure an awesome application of the technique, and I was pretty happy with some of the results I got in the first tries.
For my first few tries I had the flash at about 1/32 to 1/64 power and pointed it at a colored background. This proved some decent results, but then I thought I'd try to change my camera to Auto FP (High Speed Sync) so I was able to shoot at sutter speed into the 1/1000s of a second. This produced the results that I've posted here and my pics from the day. I plan to borrow a Macro (close-up) lens in the next few days and I'm interested to see the results from that as well.
Needless to say, I'll be buying a flash sooner than I thought I would be!!
Photo: Nikon D90, 50mm, SB-800
