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Table Sugar
Table Sugar
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Table Shot II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Canon
Location: Stanford, CA
Date: Jan 27, 2007
Aperture: 25
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/10
Galleries: Macro, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2007

 This is literally sugar sitting on my kitchen table. I reversed my Canon 50mm f1.8 on the front of my Tamron 70-300mm at 70mm to give approximately 1.2:1 magnification. Masking tape held them together.

I stopped down the 50mm to f2.8 because it caused some distortion wide open. As it was, to get decent depth of field I had to use a really small aperture on the Tamron, resulting in a ton of vignetting (most of which was cropped off).

And yes, I did arrange the sugar crystals with a toothpick. The full word was a little less than 1 cm long.

Final processing was aimed to make it look like an electron microscope image (or similar) to excentuate the feeling of magnification.

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Place: 133 out of 180
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Votes: 211
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2007 09:45:45 AM
Was this a Shallow DOF outtake?
 02/04/2007 10:08:42 PM
I like this extreme close up of something so regular yet it looks very interesting in the setting
 02/01/2007 07:47:02 PM
Very unique and creative shot!
 02/01/2007 11:30:46 AM
hmm, I think the sugar gets lost in whatever it's sitting on. I'm sorry, this is a 4 for me. I do love the concept though, just maybe would have changed a few things to make the sugar really "pop".
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 01/31/2007 01:01:19 AM
White balance is poor, so yellow it looks like crack. (Not that I know what crack looks like). 5
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