This one is better. It's not perfect, but, it's compositionally stronger than the first take, the exposure is better, and it's not sitting on the distracting slate tile.
Setup Shot:
This is how it went down.
The cup is on a black foamie now - much tougher to overexpose, so, it's more tolerant of any stray light.
The flash is a Canon 580EX II, set to 1/32, and restricted with a barndoor. It's on a cheapie trigger.
I wanted a somewhat ethereal feel for the cup with the Tic Tac under it, so, the sequence was as follows:
1. Turn off the lights. I turned on a very small flashlight, aimed at the back of the room, to give me just enough light to hit the marks with the cup.
2. Start the 20-second exposure, on a 2-second delay. We're at ISO 100 and f/7.1.
3. Shutter opens - scrunch the eyes, pop the flash.
4. Turn the cup just slightly, scrunch, pop.
5. Move the cup to the middle position.
6. Scrunch, pop. Pop again.
7. Move the cup to the left position.
8. Scrunch, pop. Pop again.
9. Remove the cup, wait out the rest of the exposure.
Steps 3 and 4 are what made the right-most cup look a little more translucent.
That's six.
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