Just in case anyone is dying of curiosity, here's what the setup looked like for shooting my
Peeps diorama:
- The backdrop is a 2x3' poster made from a real photo at the University of Chicago; the photo was shot in November, so I changed the sky in Photoshop using a nice blue sky image shot from an airplane window
- I used a wide-angle lens set to 17mm
- The tripod was critical, as I used a long 5 second exposure, triggered via a countdown timer
- I adjusted the tripod to get a low angle, slightly above the scene; I then adjusted the poster's vertical position so the gate in the distance aligned with the converging path
- My flash was not attached - I held it in my hand and manually triggered it during the 5 second exposure. The flash was pointed up toward the 8' ceiling in the room, providing a lot of great bounce light
Of course the family cat below the diorama served as my studio assistant - but for your own diorama, this would be completely optional.
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