Photographer’s Notes
Left over Halloween candy made a fine subject but I wanted to do something a little different. I wanted to punch up the reflections but couldn’t do it in Photoshop due to editing rules. Spraying water just melted the shell on the M&Ms. Cooking oil ran off too quickly. Honey was viscous enough to stay put long enough to take the picture.
I’ll probably get comments about shallow DOF but for the record, it’s on purpose because I wanted to focus attention on the highly reflective honey and its shape as it drips down the M&Ms.
Post Processing
Levels
Reduce Noise
USM
Crop
USM
Camera Data
Nikon D70
2004/11/04 22:04:56.1
JPEG (8-bit) Fine
Image Size: Large (3008 x 2000)
Lens: 105mm F/2.8 D
Focal Length: 105mm
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/60 sec - F/3.5
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Optimize Image: Vivid
White Balance: Preset
AF Mode: Manual
Flash Sync Mode: Not Attached
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp: Auto
Hue Adjustment: 0°
Saturation: Normal
Sharpening: Auto
Image Comment:
Noise Reduction: OFF
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don't like the shallow dof. intentional or not, this is hard to look at. maybe if the lighting wasn't so strong? or maybe, if the foreground subject was razor sharp?
Creative idea, though I think I would like the shot more if the sharp depth of field ran from the front of the pile to just behind the top brown M&M, though I know on these small scales that can be hard.
Not to interesting of a subject to me but we were limited on what to take. I just don’t see the association between honey and M&M’s. Your focal point seems to be on the honey leaving an out of focus foreground and background which distracting in this shot. Seems that only about a 1/5th of your photo is in focus. Good attempt.
Greeeat...I just had 2 candy shots in a row. Now I *have* to hit the vending machine. By the way, this shot is quite sexy. Don't know why. Must be the green ones ;) 6 I'm not too hot about the DOF but it was well exposed.
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