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Today’s been slow in terms of not receiving any calls from work (hope I didn’t just jinx myself there). So earlier Corinne and I did some running around and I decided to stop at a gaming store and pick up some translucent dice to play around with. Since ETTL metering is an absolute mystery to me, I decided to read up on it last night and see what I could do. All-in-all, I’m happy with my results and it’s given me a lot to think about in terms of technique and execution.

For the those interested in the tech side of things, I’m shooting with a 30D, 100 f2.8 macro lens + 36mm extension tube, Canon MT-24EX twin light with an off-camera 580EX II working as a slave off the MT-24 with a Circular Polarizer filter. Not bad just for some dice pics, eh? As always, none of these images are cropped – merely resized for the web. And it’s also worth noting that I didn’t touch the saturation on any of these. I opened them up in Bridge and then Photoshop without making any changes in ACR at all. Since I was just tooling around (and originally had no intention of sharing these shots), I didn’t bother using a cable release or mirror-lockup. If things are a bit fuzzy, that’s one reason why.

When you see two shots with the same composition but different colors, the difference will be mostly be the light position and rotation of the CP.