Available Light/Snow And Using Fill Cards

It snowed last night and at around noon today the sun was coming through a thin layer of clouds—perfect for shooting food with available light.

That's the view out the window and that's my setup for this photo. I did this just to talk about using available light, white fill cards and also I just wanted to take a photo of the cool pewter antique dish I found a couple of days ago.

These two photos were both shot at ISO 100, F5.6, a 6th of a sec. shutter speed on a tripod. The first is just...