Shooting Notes & Details:
Camera Body: Canon 40D
Lens: EF 100mm Macro f/2.8 USM
Mode: Manual - Av @ 16, Tv @ 250, ISO @ 100
Flash: Canon 580EXII + Canon MT-24 Macro
Diffuser: Gary Fong Universal Cloud
Mode: ETTL
This is the first time that I used the 580 + MT-24 flash combo. Spent quite a fair bit of time trial & erroring. The 580 was mounted on a monopod stand off-camera above the subject, with the MT-24 on camera providing fill & shadow play.
All the product ingredients were painstakingly cleaned out & arranged, and were shot over a few days. Some were rejected by my friend and were re-shot. Submitted all to istock but only got 2 accepted - The rest did not meet their lighting requirement. Will learn from this and improve along the way : )
As for my friend? He's a happy customer when he saw the final printout result (slightly larger than A0 size). I haven't got a chance to see it myself but according to him, passerbys were asking where he got the pics when he's carrying the printout home from the printers... i'm happy : D