First of final photos

For my final project I decided to do a cookbook based off of recipes taught to me and inspired by my grandmothers and mother. I think the best way to start is by going over some of the more basic spices and spices I will use in the book.  This also seemed liked a good place to start shooting because it could be easy to reshoot if the photos do not match up well with later photos. 

Theses photos here were shot in my apartment with two strobe lights.  I had to play around a lot with intensity of the flash and position of the light because it was really easy to see bright spots in the paper I used for a background. 

I am nit sure about how I feel about this first image.  It was what I had originally imagined but it is not great.  I think I would like to retry it in the studio on a white background.

I then moved on to play with individual spices on a piece of tile I got at Home Depot.  I like these much better than the previous photo.  I may and up doing a lot of small photos of the spices like this. I think I like the natural feel of the spice and the stone mixed together. The colors in the stone are very beautiful as well.