The burlap bag is a coffee bean bag from Brazil. The mug has some burning matches inside, which gave it luminance. I fired my 580EX flash manually at 1/128 power during the exposure (from the right side of the mug). I shot in raw, converted to TIF, then converted to BW using Calculations in Photoshop! A quick levels adjustment, then Noise Ninja, then sharpening, and that's it. I expect about a 5.6 maybe...
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I hope you won't get me wrong with this comment, but I saw your color version on PBase and never understood why you summitted a BW .... The color one is just STUNNING !! 20th position is very good, but I think you would have finished higher with the color one. Cheers
Of the bean pics, I think I like this the best. The lighting isn't perfect (among the beans), but the contrast in texture between the beans, cup, and bag is captured very well. 9
love this composition! it appears that the contrast is turning your beans into something unidentifyable, and the inside of the cup ends up looking overly bright. which is a shame, because the image could really pop imo...
Interesting lighting in the cup. You know, the more I look at this the more I like it, you've really used your imagination on this one, BRAVO! I'm giving it a 10.
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