Chocolate!
This photo required six bars of chocolate, three vertical on each side. There is a lego roof keeping the bars vertical, between two boxed sets of the Tale of Genji (Seidensticker and Tyler). The only lighting is from a desk lamp, the direct shine of which being masked off from the camera by shirts and chess boards. The Ferrero Rocher (picked up pretty much at random from the store; I had no idea how large the central chocolate should have been) rests atop a book case, and the background is a cork board. A polarizer was used, though I set it when the chocolate was wrapped, not unwrapped, so that might have been adjusted better. Had trouble lining the camera up square with the opening, which ball heads make difficult. May want to pickup a head that allows finer adjustment.
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