This may get some heat for not being in the beverages, but the strawberries are food, and I enjoyed eating this shoot very much. As far as the recipe goes, drop strawberry in heavy whipping cream and consume. This is meant as a Tribute to Jacko and his blueberry shot. Thanks For the info Jacko.
Post Challenge: WOW My first Ribbon!! Thanks so much for all of the great feedback. To be mistaken For irenem is an honor.
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Seems like if they think it's Irene, you are way ahead of the game.
Originally posted by LouisaSalazar:
Irene? =) Great shot. I experimented with some liquid action shots like this, and can really appreciate how difficult and time consuming it is to get such an amazing shot. Nicely done.
Hey, Andy -- Congrats on second-place and your first ribbon! I got second-from-tenth, so we have Phoenix well-represented on the first page! ;) Strawberries & cream sounds mighty good about now; any excuse I can get to stick my head in the fridge to cool off! :P
Great job on catching an interesting splash AND keeping a real sharp focus on the strawberry so that we see all the lovely details. I tried this same thing myself several weeks ago so I have an appreciation for anyone who does better than I (could not get a good splash combined with the good view of the strawberry in sharp detail). Plus I would never do this again since it created such a mess on the lights (nothing like burning milk yuck:-) ) So kudos to you for also putting up with a heck of a mess - unless you got really lucky and got this within the first 10 shots. Now onto more of the critique. The color of the strawberry is a wonderful vibrant red and you caught it wonderfully at the moment of splash. Nice stop action here as well as sharp details. The areas that really pull this down is mainly in the color cast of the milk. It has a pinkish cast to it in some places. That could be removed or corrected in one of three ways. First way is to adjust your white balance to read the milk as a true white. Second is to play with RGB levels - a slight adjustment on the red should tone down the pinkish cast but be careful not to rob too much color from the strawberry. Third, fresh milk. By that I mean I noticed that after a significant number of drops of the strawberry into the milk it took on a pinkish tone from a bruised strawberry. Once that happens you need to fill up with a fresh batch - truly the Strawberries & Cream shot is a messy and costly trial. Lastly, the other area that is a weakness in the shadows cast from the splash. Now it is a catch-22 I know. For at the overhead angle you caught a wonderful splash as well as the wonderfully red & detailed strawberry. But the drawback was the distracting and unflattering shadow. The only way to eliminate that is by changing angle to a side view. And THAT would require greater patience and luck in catching the right moment of impact while still showing a good deal of the strawberry in sharp focus. Not an easy thing. Still an above average shot but with a little more work this could have easily been in the stellar category.
Irene? =) Great shot. I experimented with some liquid action shots like this, and can really appreciate how difficult and time consuming it is to get such an amazing shot. Nicely done.
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