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Cafe au lait

Pleased to say this was published in the US version of Popular Phography magazine.

 

Highest position on explore - 2 - Thanks guys.

 

Setup shot here

 

Strobist info - Single canon 430ez on 1/4 power into softbox above and to the top of the shot. Surrounded by white reflectors including one with a cutout placed around camera. Milk poured using various methods, but ended up being hand poured. Bubbles produced by an old food photography trick of using soap mixture to give the coffee a just poured look - I'm giving all the secrets away today. :-)

 

Developed in lightroom and cs3 - selective sharpening applied to the bubbles using the high pass filter in an overlay layer. Lovely technique I found in Digital Photo magazine.

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Uploaded on April 9, 2009
Taken on April 9, 2009