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Up Late Coffee

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About

 

Playing around with my CyberSyncs, simple macro box setup. I cut a hole in the top so I could drop the beans. A few attempts and wala, up late coffee.

 

Enjoy.

 

- Canon 50D.

- ISO 100, f7.1, 1/160, 40mm.

- Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L lens.

- Tripod.

 

Strobist

 

- Canon 430 EX II, camera left, 1/16 power, 45 to cup, slightly higher that cup.

- Vivitar 285 HV , camera right, 1/24 power.

 

How?

 

Cup was setup, shot without coffee to get light etc right, a few test shots with beans, then I added the coffee, after some poor timing and missed splashes, I needed to replace my seamless paper. Clean cup, refill with coffee and re-shoot.

 

Beans were shot separately and added in.

 

Processing

 

- Fixed up the beans.

- Sharpness in Photoshop 6.0.

 

About Coffee

 

Coffee is a brewed beverage prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the coffee plant. They are seeds of "coffee cherries" that grow on trees in over 70 countries. Green coffee is one of the most traded commodities in the world, often described as being second only to crude oil although this often repeated 'fact' should be subjected to more careful scrutiny. Due to its caffeine content, coffee can have a stimulating effect in humans. Today, coffee is one of the most popular beverages worldwide.

 

It is thought that the energizing effect of the coffee bean plant was first recognized in Yemen in Arabia and the south west of Ethiopia, and the cultivation of coffee expanded in the Arab world.The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries of the Yemen in southern Arabia. From the Muslim world, coffee spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas.

 

Coffee berries, which contain the coffee bean, are produced by several species of small evergreen bush of the genus Coffea. The two most commonly grown species are Coffea canephora (also known as Coffea robusta) and Coffea arabica; less popular species are liberica, excelsa, stenophylla, mauritiana, racemosa.

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Uploaded on December 11, 2009
Taken on December 11, 2009