A unique birthday cake

Dharm made this cake for his dad's 75th birthday. I just love the idea and thought that went into it. Can anyone do better?

The creator, and....

The birthday cake.

And the taste is just gorgeous. Looking forward to a 'cake - tasting' session, if there is such a thing. Maybe Dharm can start one, soon.

Now, the photography part. Rather difficult to take a good photo with an on-board flash. You can see that the front portion is rather well exposed while the back of the cake is under. This is where a second flash would have helped. Next time, if there is a next time, I will just do that. Should not be too difficult for an ad hoc assistant to hold onto the 2nd flash.

Use of flashlight

Never liked using it. However, it is time I get to like it, especially after listening to Louis Pang's, 'there is no such thing as bad lighting'. Indeed, it is up to us to get used to what is available, and what gadgetry that is available.

Here is a sequence of photographs on the mixing of a Cuban drink, Mojitos. Looks fun, and rather expertly done. Shame that photographs were not so well taken.

- ugly shadows. used bounced flash. ceiling too high. 60 degree angle, still ugly.
- he did not have too much space to move. otherwise, shadows could be reduced if he could have stepped away from the wall.
- another solution would be to use a very fast lens and a very high iso. not with my nikon d300. maybe canon or d700 or d3x

and glasses upon glasses of drinks for us