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Challenge: Hot (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 for Canon
Location: dinner table in living room
Date: Jul 22, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200s
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 22, 2008

 I'm pretty happy how this worked out, kinda hoping for a 6+

Used two strobes for lighting, one is low behind the sauce providing back light for the smoke. The other is behind the camera, reflecting at the ceiling for general lighting.

The smoke comes from essence, the sauce is actual chilli sauce (though not that hot) en the bottle is a wine bottle. It took me 20 or so shots to get the placement of the bottle and the timing right.

PP is pretty basic:
convert from RAW
crop
levels (to add some contrast)
saturation (up, but not much, +10)
resize
sharpen

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Olympus C-2500L
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
 07/27/2008 07:22:08 AM
first involuntary smile of the batch. thanks
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Olympus E-5
Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 07/26/2008 04:35:08 PM
Now that's hot. Good effort and well done. It's the smoke that is the weak spot in this pic.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/25/2008 02:18:02 PM
Good idea. Nicely executed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 07/24/2008 06:59:30 PM
Nice picture, nicely done
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 07/23/2008 11:52:28 PM
very cool
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 07/23/2008 03:45:36 AM
OMG, I just laughed out loud.

I have a crazy hot sauce collection including some really foul 16,000,000 Scoville units stuff from Costa Rica that requires eye and hand protection when opening the bottle (it's basically a sludge of pure capsaicin crystals in a little bit of oil).

I made a video of a buddy trying a drop of it on a toothpick, then holding his head in the sink running water over his tongue for about 15 minutes -- it's too long to put the whole thing on youtube.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max
 07/23/2008 12:51:31 AM
i love the idea
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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