Still Life

I've been doing a few portraits recently and it's quite nice to get back to some still life stuff, and it's easier because you don't have to make them laugh. I was after everyday objects so I got some trainers and put them on a wooden floor. It is just lit with a single speedlight to camera right, there was no diffuser fitted so this made the shadows quite harsh, normally a bad thing but it was the effect I was after at the time. I was going to go for black and white but I quite liked the over saturated reds. I also liked the sepia version as it reminded me of the old time athletes who wore these as they were cutting edge in the day (they had holes in the side for ventilation! not just to let water in when it rains). Taken at 5.6, ISO 100 at 1/200 sec between 100-200 mm. My flash's auto power off was driving me insane but this can be disabled.