Sweet Tooth, detail

The pic above is one of many moderately successful photos that I made very recently.  The entire concept really came together pretty well, mostly courtesy of my wife. See, the original thought was to embed the tooth in a cupcake.  

We have no cupcakes.

My wife was the one who pointed out that our daughter likes chocolate, and it should be in a pile of chocolate.  So chocolate it was, and embedded the tooth became.  This is the concept that was brought to the table (literally and figuratively).

So the first step was to get the candy (yay!), and a small cup.  But against what background?  For me, there was only one choice: red, and solid.  Red, for the pain (and blood) of the lost tooth.  Solid, for the emotional impact.

The background turned out to be the lining of a carton that had originally belonged to some doll, now long lost. It was enhanced with a red-gelled flash.  The lighting itself was courtesy of a soft-box-wrapped flash, reflected off of a book (look closely & you’ll see lettering in the reflections – I left them, ’cause I thought they were kinda cool, in an easter-eggy sorta way).