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Not sure what kinda cup fungi this is called? Feeling too lazy to check it's identification.
Got some funny looks yesterday whislt taking images of fungi. One guy said "are you sure you should be carrying all that camera gear & lying on the floor whislt heavily pregnant"? I just can't help myself with all this abundance of fungi, won't get the chance when the little one arrives. Only 6 weeks until D-day yikes!!!
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French pressed jamaican blue mountain coffee. One of the best cups of coffee I've ever had.
NOTE: All these pics are from '06-'08. I saved so many that I can't remember when all of them were taken...
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From tea bag to finished cup - four images.
This image started out as baking a cake, but after some thought the cake was replaced by a cup of tea. I set the cup/saucer up on a black velvet board and mounted my camera on a sturdy tripod looking down on the cup/saucer.
image taken with a Canon 5D mounted on a Manfrotto 055CB Professional Tripod. Two Canon 580EX flashes were used one on each side of the cup and saucer. Both flashes diffused to avoid hot spots on the ceramic, water etc. I set up the cup on the saucer a little off centre because I felt this looked more pleasing.
My first shot of the cup & tea bag was done quite leisurely but the fun started when the water started to pour. Taking the other three images kettle/milk/spoon took about 45 seconds to do, because I wanted to ensure that the water was hot out of the kettle (though not too hot that it sent steam up to my camera!!!). Hot water meant that the tea bag would do it's stuff properly and that I would get effects like the condensation on the side of the cup as seen in the image with the milk.
Even though I had less than a minute to take these images I still managed to get a range of images at each stage so that afterwards I could choose an image that I wanted. I eventually chose images which showed how the tea in the cup changes colour progressively towards the final result. In the final image with the spoon I stirred up the tea and then took the image so that I got the pleasing highlights on the surface of the tea.
Post production was pretty easy. I took one image and using guide lines to help me make sure that the edge of the saucer to the edge of the image was the same all around - which is important when it came to quartering the image. Once sure that the saucer was in the centre of the image (remember the cup is off centre) I cropped it to the size that wanted. Then I dragged different image layers onto this initial image and changed the opacity of this new layer to 60% and aligned it exactly with the first image. I did this for all the layers so that they all aligned together perfectly. Then I cropped so that all layers were the same. The rest was simple - quarter, new image (black background), extract each layer to new image, position etc.
And finally, my wife had the resulting cup of tea and she said it tasted disgusting...
Note: This image won the Gold Cup in a Worth1000 Advanced Photography Competition in April 2007.
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I used a vintage tea cup, a Poterat wedgewood cup. I finally found the name !
This one was used by my parents.
Added in Silver Effex Pro 2 preset 034 yellowed 2.
Dust&Scratches by Kim Klassen and
fotofilter sepia
Happy looking close....on Friday!
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Good coffee should go in a worthy cup!
A warm, ceramic or glass cup is ideal. At home, when the kitchen is cold, we place our favorite ceramic mugs on the stove, next to the burner, so that they do not cool the coffee too quickly.
When getting coffee to go, I try to remember a metal go-cup. Plastic cups are not good, but better than paper. Styrofoam is worst of all -- I would rather do without coffee!