Gizmodo is running a photo contest this week for what you can shoot in complete darkness except for the light of a single candle.  There are no fancy prizes or anything, but I thought I’d try to kill two birds with one stone.  I thought having just one candle might create too contrasty an image so I built a little sweep using some white paper and paper clips.  The white paper served as a nice reflector to fill in some of the areas that would have been in dark shadows otherwise.

I thought I’d add a photo of how I set up my shoot on the kitchen counter.  Of course, when I actually snapped the photos, all the kitchen lights were turned off.

Shell 1

Shell 2

How I set up the shot