Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/200 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 100, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)  Tonight was another “Oh shoot, what am I going to take a picture of” night.  I have this fancy new light stand and umbrella, so I figured I would try and use them again.  I had tried to take a picture of these two mugs a few weeks ago with direct flash and bounced flash.  But the resulting glare on the mugs was too distracting.  I had a bit more luck this time around using the shoot through umbrella.  The trick was to get the umbrella as close as I possibly could to the mugs without having it show up in the frame.  If I remember correctly, the lens of the camera was actually up against the umbrella for this shot.  The umbrella was positioned camera right, sightly above the mugs but pointed down, and roughly 5 inches away from them.

The mugs were given to me by my mother after my father passed away.  They are from one of the infamous Playboy Clubs from back in the day (not the current Playboy Club in Las Vegas at the Palms).  I will have to talk to my mother to get the whole story about the several pieces of Playboy Club drinkware which was in the house when I was growing up.