121/365 - Iko Iko

This one was fun. I knew what I wanted to do, but how to get the king red? I don't have any gels for my flash so I rubber-banded saran wrap to the flash and smeared the saran wrap with vaseline I had colored with red food dye. I couldn't get the light as red as I wanted, plus the chess piece was natural-wood colored, not white. I tried holding my red filter over the flash, too and that helped a little.

I probably could have achieved that same if not better effect if I had simply used photoshop. But I wanted to shot out of the camera to be as close to what I envisioned as possible.