A Cupcake Party..

Earlier this week I had some friends over for a cupcake party :) For the cupcakes, I went to Cupcake Royale. I picked up a dozen, 6 different flavours. The general plan for the evening was to be social, have some food, take some photos of the cupcakes, wrapping things up with eating some cupcakes (of course!).

While we were socialising we set up some lights, and some seamless, we started with white then eventually went to black. We also used two Nikon Flashes, a SB-800 and a SB-900 (thanks Nikko). For the SB-800 we used a snoot to have more directed light and the 900 was diffused via a shoot through umbrella. Our settings did vary a bit as we used different setups, Nikko was trying to take notes as he shot, I mostly remember turning the flashes down to their lowest or almost lowest settings, especially with two lights as I like to shoot wide open more, however a few of my shots were actually done around f/8 so weird for me!

Anyhow, here's some photos from the evening, only one cupcake was harmed in the creation of these images!

Royale with Cheese (hehe)
At least I believe how it's named there, a chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting.



The Kate
Vanilla cupcake with pink buttercream frosting (and yes, it really is called the Kate cupcake!)



The Kate (squared)
(this one has more of the directional snooted light here, so it is a bit brighter, but I like the shadows)...



Salted Caramel
Chocolate cupcake with Salted Caramel frosting, um can ya see the salt!? (Can we say YUM!!)



Somewhere in the midst of creating these photos, Jenny had a thought... she wanted to capture a cupcake kind of flying, well dropping, see if we could catch it in motion. So we chose a Coconut cupcake (Vanilla topped with a creamy coconut goodness).
We did several attempts, with Jenny capturing some photos, and I know that NIkko did too, but I haven't seen any of them yet.

Here are a couple of mine...

Before:



After:



So far from the evening only one of the peeps has uploaded any photos so here's a couple from Stephen:





Stay tuned for some pretty nature pics!