Partying like it’s time for cake

20 March 2006

On Saturday I made a grand batch of 48 cupcakes for Alex and Fernie’s engagement party. Alex had ordered edible printed rice papers of their school photos and I was commissioned to make the cakes to go beneath them. I was a little concerned that the rice paper would fall apart as soon as I touched it, but it was much more robust than expected. Alex tended to peel off her backing paper more readily than Fernie, but that’s girls for you: helpful.

I took my camera to the party and John and Fernie had KipperTie’s D70 there too. However, the memory card on that quickly became full because of another set of photos already on there, so we put the fancy Speedlight flash on top of my camera and away I went. Damn. Now I need to buy one of those flashes. It is officially A Nice Piece of Kit. And half as expensive as I thought. The only small drawback is that when you come into a room wielding the big Speedlight, you’re likely to get even more “Good God!” comments than when you’ve just got the big D50 slung around your neck. But being able to bounce the flash off the wall/ceiling, rather than bouncing it right off the subject’s retina outweighs that disadvantage, I think.