We kept the available light as the main. It worked well in creating a nice lighting for the shot. However, available light only got us so far. We added an umbrella coming from the left to kick light into the front of the sandwich and then had a bald light coming from the top right to bring out some contrast in the salad.
We tried a couple of apertures, but finally settled on f 9 to keep the front half of the sandwich in focus. ISO was 200 and shutter speed was set to 1/5 second.
The cook did a great job of putting our sandwich together. Lots of extra bacon in it. Truly brought it to life. Our lighting test sammy was good but needed a bit more content. When we ordered the real plate, we only asked for more filling and to keep the rest the same. But having not mentioned the angle of the cut, we ended up getting a sandwich cut on the opposite angle. No biggie. Worse things have happened to better people.
If I could shoot again, I would have put an item on the left side to fill a bit of the empty area. A glass of water, for instance, would have filled that space without taking away from the food. Or maybe even salt & pepper shakers. Looking at the cover now, there's too much space under the O and the U of gourmet. The Sandwich could be moved over on the cover, but I felt like it messed too much with the text.
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