My friend Gael Fashingbauer Cooper hosts an annual holiday cookie party every year, and this time around she wrote an article about how to do it well for Today.com: Sweet tips (and recipes) for hosting a holiday cookie-swap.
When Gael’s editors asked her to take some photos, her response was something along the lines of, “I’m not up for doing that, but I know someone who can” and suggested me. The party was a lot of fun to shoot, mostly because it involved lots of kids making lots of messes. And, of course, because now I have a three boxes full of cookies left over!
Here are a few shots that didn’t appear in the article. You can also view more in this Flickr set.
A quick behind-the-scenes: Gael’s living room is beautiful but dark for photography, so I used two flashes.
I mounted a LumoPro LP160 (the current model is the LumoPro LP180
For the cookie plate that appears at the top of the article, I set up the SB-800 at camera-right on the light stand and a LumiQuest SoftBox III
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 