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Morning Tea
Morning Tea
gpgemini


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Challenge: Beverages (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A70
Location: Home kitchen
Date: Sep 24, 2005
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/5s
Date Uploaded: Sep 25, 2005

Shot at my kitchen with a white cardboard as background, used the kitchen fluorescent light and the camera's built in flash with a hand made aluminum deflector on it to make the flash bounce up instead of directly hitting the cup.
Also used a hand held aluminium deflector to make the flash bounce back down and to the side where some light was missing too.
You can guess this was a coordinating-hell, trying to make the tea bag look directly at the lens, have a tea drop hanging from it, shooting and using the handheld deflector to make the light flash bounce at just the right angles ..
Fun :)
Shot 70 pics, then erased half and shot another 30-40.

PS: NeatImage first, then using channel-mixer, and some hue/saturation tricks I learned reading here, I selectively, based on hue, brightened the background, without (almost) damaging the yellow cup,

Hope you like it (inspired by my addiction to morning tea).

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/04/2005 08:37:14 PM
Nice idea, I just think the tea bag is to burned out. 5
10/02/2005 10:26:26 PM
cool capture 10
10/02/2005 03:54:39 PM
Tea-Bag is junk Tea ;-)
10/01/2005 11:08:06 AM
IF you catch that drop just before it goes I think it would better. Plus the mug itself is boring. Something with more color esp. against the white backround.
10/01/2005 11:00:32 AM
Just a shade overexposed -- a little less would make it much easier to recognize the teabag.
09/30/2005 10:44:12 PM
Nice concept .. I found this a little overexposed. Good work though.
09/29/2005 08:40:34 PM
Overexposed - but I like the idea!
09/29/2005 05:11:23 PM
I like the idea of this one, but I would have liked to see more of the teabag, maybe just the edges? :)
09/29/2005 02:28:36 PM
I wish the darkness of the tea was balanced by a darker color of the cup.
09/29/2005 11:32:05 AM
I think this idea is great but maybe executed a little better it could have been a great shot. If the image weren't so white. The tea-bag is hardly visible...however, that may have been what you were going for...it looks like the tea is just suspended. The drip a great added spark.
09/28/2005 06:10:25 PM
I like the simplicity. Well done.
09/28/2005 09:46:25 AM
No Definition On The Tea Bag...Looks Like A Lump Of Dirt Falling Into The Cup
09/28/2005 09:01:01 AM
not tooo good
09/28/2005 05:28:26 AM
Unpleasantly overexposed (to my taste)...


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