Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/200 sec @ f/8.0, ISO 100, 40 mm (EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS)  At first I did not like the piece of artwork my fiancée showed me at the store a few months back.  It  did not look like something that belonged on the wall of our kitchen sitting room.  Ultimately though, it made its way back home and onto the wall.  It is now one of my favorite pieces in the entire house.

For this photograph, I set up the 430EX II flash with the shoot-through umbrella on the light stand and raised it up to be level with the wall art.  I tripped it by using the wireless flash system built into the 580EX II flash which was mounted in the camera’s hotshoe.  I had the 580EX II set to 1/128 power and pointed striaght up with the fill card extended so that a kiss of light would be sent up behind the raised tiles.

Typically, I would have framed this shot so that the artwork was straight in the camera and later adjusted it in Lightroom.  However, tonight I decided to play with the composition in camera.  After a slight increase in exposure and the application of an out-of-the-box Lightroom preset, I arrived at the finished photograph.