Strobist: Cooking Light

For my "cooking light" assignment, I chose to light up my 8" chef's knife and some cherry tomatoes. This is the same knife that sliced through my finger and partially severed my tendon a year ago. To be fair, I cut myself, the knife just happened to be in my hands.

I used two overhead CFL lights as fill light and a gelled speedlight shot through an umbrella camera right. I tried to get just the right amount of specular highlights on the knife while still seeing the writing. I learned a lot about how my position relative to the light affects the specular highlights.