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A Spot of Milk
A Spot of Milk
michelaudette


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Macro VII (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM
Location: Hamilton, ON
Date: Oct 2, 2010
Aperture: 16
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 2, 2010

3 flashes on my kitchen sink and a lot of milk everywhere.

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Place: 14 out of 168
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Avg (commenters): 8.0000
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Views since voting: 1772
Views during voting: 311
Votes: 127
Comments: 11
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10/15/2010 07:21:38 AM
Hi Michel, since you didn't find my last critique useful enough to tick the box, I'll keep this one brief.

This is a rather nice shot - technically nice and crisp with good DOF and I think that you did a very good job with the lighting.

Artistically, I am not sure why you decided to cut the cup handle off half way down? Perhaps it was practical based on the amount of milk on your work surface... Either way I find the crop a little awkward - either tighter on the surface with the handle out of the way, or further back showing the whole curve of the handle would have worked better for me.

There are plenty of droplet shots on DPC, but this is sufficiently different, and well executed, to stand out.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/10/2010 09:43:22 PM
I love how the cup is so full that you can't see the white top in the back. It's a shame that you can see the reflections of your camera in the cup though.
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10/10/2010 02:32:25 AM
Very well executed neat & crisp shot !
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10/09/2010 10:59:47 AM
Meets Challenge 7 Impact 7 Technicals 7 Processing 7 Creativity 7 Total (weighted) 7
Like the picure,the thing that holds this back for me is the milk leaving the frame and the lack of the cup rim on the right - even so a great effort and worth trying again as I think if you get it right it would make a good print for the coffee addict :-)
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10/08/2010 04:51:58 AM
Great photography. Well done
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10/06/2010 12:53:28 PM
Water drop type images have been done to death and I usually struggle to find them appealing, but this one is a fantastic shot. Something a little different. The contrast of full white against full balck, tempered by the orange through red to brown really helps lift the image. I'm thinking this is a ribbon contender - though if there was 1 tiny thing I would change, it would be the trio of relections on the leading edge of the cup, as I find my eye drawn to them. It would be interesting to see how it looks without those tiny hot spots. Of course, that is just being nitpicky.
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10/05/2010 01:12:42 PM
very nicely done - a first I questioned the close up part of this but after looking at it for a day or two I will agree that this can be considered a close up (now I have a headache! lol)
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10/04/2010 03:23:44 PM
Brillant but not really macro!
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10/04/2010 02:39:54 PM
Gorgeous, and a nice variation on gyaban's . Though I'm not sure this qualifies as a macro.
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10/04/2010 11:19:40 AM
This is excellent.
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10/04/2010 09:19:33 AM
Macro?
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