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The Photo Forum's b/w challenge this fortnight is 'Only Negatives.'
This sugar skull planter is a sort of aqua blue. Just creating an inverse of the color photo created a horribly blown out skull.
After much trial and error I ended up using a darks luminosity channel (Darks 3 if you know Tony Kuyper's terminology) as a layer over the color background.
But some parts were pure black.
So over that I have a layer into which I applied an inverse of the color background's Red channel. That was masked out and then selective parts were painted back in.
My Flickr friend Karen commented HMBT so I guess I should post this to the group!
Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday!
In between wind gusts and snow squalls, we had a perfectly lovely walk on Christmas Day and my head was filled with sugar plum fairies - well.... at least one that was wearing a plum colored North Face Jacket. Still lovely in my eyes!
An assortment of candy: Gummi Bears, Assorted Spice Drops, and Sixlets Chocolatey Candies, all designed to make you higher than a kite on sugar.
Strobist/technical info:
The round candies measure 1 cm in diameter. A 13-image focus stack composite was required to render the scene sharp from front to back. The candy was illuminated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights placed 90° CL/CR, three-feet away and two-feet above the subject. The speedlights were fired through two Neewer 24" x 24" soft boxes in Manual mode @ ½ power.
The SB900's were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus X's.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D (AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro).
This was taken inside the warehouse at the St. Mary Sugar Mill where they stack the processed sugar. The mounds of sugar remind me of sand dunes, but much more delicious. It was still warm from being milled. Have you ever had warm fresh milled sugar? ... It's like tasting heaven! Jeanerette, Louisiana, USA, November 2019
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Always fascinating to see and learn something new. The sugar apple is a small fruit bearing tree said to originate from the tropical America - Caribbean region. Seen and photographed, with permission at the land owners home in the Florida Keys.
Somethings are addictive apparently. Sugar is one but also watching the sunrise from the summit of Roseberry Topping. No inversion this time but a welcome sprinkling of snow in the early hours to set the scene.
This is another view of the Sugar Creek Covered Bridge, which is only one of five 19th century covered bridges remaining in the State of Illinois. It crosses Sugar Creek southeast of Chatham, Illinois. I followed a path along the creek's edge to get this shot. Recent rains had turned the water muddy, but its unriddled surface was reflecting the surroundings nevertheless.
According to Wikipedia, "The Burr truss bridge is 110 feet (34 m) long and 30 feet (9.1 m) wide. The bridge was constructed by Thomas Black; sources disagree on the date of construction, placing it at either 1827 or 1880. The State of Illinois acquired the bridge in 1963 and extensively renovated it two years later. The bridge closed to traffic in 1984 and is now part of a local park with a picnic area. It is one of only five historic covered bridges in Illinois and is the oldest of the remaining bridges. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1978."
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I like how the frost on these leaves look like sugar--- no calories either---hehehe----winter is near-----Have a wonderful day everyone- Working this morning--will catch up with you guys later today------thanks for stopping by!
Dawn breaking at Sugar Sands beach, Northumberland.
Thanks for looking :)
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Macro Monday 2 April: Back in the day...
... when people were sofisticated and used one of these to put sugar in their tea.
KELOPOLEPO BEACH PARK, MAUI, HAWAII -- I would love to tell you that this was a volcano on Maui, but it's not. This is a view of the local sugar mill burning the sugar cane field. This intentional burning removes the dry, dead leaves, leaving the moist stalk and roots unharmed. It also gets rid of the snakes that are hiding in the cane (it also leaves a dark red soot all over your balcony where you can walk over it in bare feet and get it all over your feet).
Taken from Kalepolepo Beach Park in Maui.
Here's the direct website! www.worldsugarmeeting.it/
As you can see from this sculpture, it is not in the style of something that would be put on a cake. I am attempting to sculpt the sugar by treating it like it is something similar to stone. After the sugar is molded and dryed, I chip away at it, sand it, rub it. This gives it more of the texture that I am trying to achieve.
Sugar Shacks, where raw maple sap is boiled down into maple syrup, are scattered across most of Vermont.
This one was a bit messy to do :o) It took me several attempts to get it right with the camera on self timer which I thought would be easier than using the remote and having to coordinate that with pouring the sugar. The spoon is stuck to the top of a jar with blutac.
Flash through softbox from camera left directly in line with the spoon, I think this was 1/64 power.
Explore #38
When a recipe calls for a vanilla pod, don't just throw it away after you scrape the caviar. Instead, fill a clean jar with white sugar and insert the scraped pods. A few days later, you'll have a jarful of vanilla-scented sugar. You can use it in your recipes or simply sweeten your coffee or tea with it.