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Challenge: Abstract Food (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon
Location: My Driveway
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Aperture: F/6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Abstract, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 16, 2006

 shot outside. I used 2 lowel flood lights (with blue gels) 2 nikon sb-600's (with grey and blue gels) set as slaves to onboard flash. blue foil paper backdrop, remote button and a tri-pod

stood half way between camera and back drop, poured popcorn from above and took shot with remote button,

the distance from lens to backdrop was aprox 5 feet. wind was blowing so the back drop wiggled a bit, which produced a wave effect.

Post Process. Photoshop, converted from raw, slight crop, cloned out couple of small imperfections, adjusted contrast , levels , highlight and shadows, reduced noise, sharpened , framed, reduced size, adjusted brightness, slightly sharpened again, saved as jpeg.


thanks for the comments. i am never sure what to say is abstract and what is not. so it was a task to do this challenge. it was also a mess.


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Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon
 07/23/2006 02:23:35 AM
Heh. Cute title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-F828
 07/22/2006 07:53:51 PM
Good stop action, can smell the corn, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/21/2006 08:28:35 PM
OOF throughout. Abstract food would indicate that I would not recognize the food immediately. I dont think this meets the criteria for abstract. I do like that there is depth between the popcorn and background, and the background color works well for this idea.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/20/2006 11:28:11 PM
Nice job of creating "floating" popcorn. It would be nice to see more in focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Df
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 07/20/2006 03:46:48 PM
Nice idea, I may have liked to see more DOF to have more of the popcorn in focus.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 07/20/2006 03:31:36 PM
nice action and blurry background, there's none of the popcorns that looks perfect sharp, would've liked to see that
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D850
Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED VR
 07/17/2006 06:58:24 PM
Now this is really cool. It reminds me of those pictures that you turn at different angles to get different views of it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Coolpix L3
 07/17/2006 03:30:02 PM
How cute...made me chuckle :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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