This was somewhat rushed as I'm off on my holidays. I had a couple of ideas for yellow and settled on this being the easier option. I'm sort of hoping the fact that its yellow and has somewhat of a milk crown will stop my brace of sub 5 scores becoming a trio!
I used 6 egg yolks a little milk, 2 table lamps, a 500watt work lamp and the 580EX and still didn't get the shadow as I wanted but the best crown of the shoot.
Levels, curves, NI and some 'playing' around hopefully brought out the colour.
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Greetings from the Critique Club! Apparently it took us a little while to get to this...so I apologize for that. (hey, only a little over 3 years...)
I have seen your photography level grow by leaps and bounds since this was taken, but will still offer my opinion on this none the less. It is also rather ironic since I clicked the "take a shot at something older" in the CC que and the first one that pops up is by someone I just 10 minutes ago discussed drop shots with in a current thread!
As for the image, I think what really hurt this was the fact that the main attraction of the image (the crown from the splash) is small and also tough to distinguish from the background. I love the idea of the egg yolks to add interest and colour to the milk. I think a different background colour which contrasted with the subject...to make the subject stand out more would have helped this shot a lot. (Even though this challenge was "yellow" I think it still would have me the challenge even with a black background)
Yummy! That looks delicious! Is that a splace on the top? It's hard to tell, almost missed it. Lovely colors, the shadow is just muted enough not to distract but to add and the splash is a nice touch. But there seems to be a yellow bubble or something on the top that bugs me because the splash is more white while the area it's coming from is yellow and raised. It keeps my attention, that's for sure! ;) An 8
The background didn't need to be yellow here, would have been just as good on white to get a better contrast. This way the glass blends in with the background.
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