Strobist: One flash, mounted using VAT, snooted with a magasine advertismenet brochur. 1/16.
Thanks to my wife and mother in law for helping :)
Processing: Open RAW, change white balance to Shade in CS4, contrast, vibrance, saturation, increase temperature to 7800. Duplicate Layer, increase contrast to maximum, and mask the mug and the glasses.
Dodge and burn, levels, NeatImage, SFW
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This is adorable! Clever idea, well executed! On my screen it looks as though it could use just a touch of sharpening. Can't see where you had that in your steps. Try resizing aftter you've finished processing to twice the size you want to end up with (ie 1440 pixels wide if you want 720 pixels as your finished size) and "Sharpen" once - then maybe once more if it needs it. THEN resize to 720 pixels.
Thanks Deb, appreciate your comment, the problem was having to shoot this from the table level :) Had the focus on the glasses which when enlarged is tack on, but that left the word cappuccino a bet soft, as it curves, not even shooting at f8 could've got everything in focus from such a short distance :) once again .. thank you for your time and kind critique, really appreciate it,
Ameed,
This is adorable! Clever idea, well executed! On my screen it looks as though it could use just a touch of sharpening. Can't see where you had that in your steps. Try resizing aftter you've finished processing to twice the size you want to end up with (ie 1440 pixels wide if you want 720 pixels as your finished size) and "Sharpen" once - then maybe once more if it needs it. THEN resize to 720 pixels.
im quite upset that this didnt do much better. it was the only image in the entire challenge i gave a 10 because it just has so much personality. excellent shot.
Thanks Max, I really appreciate your kind words,
All the best, Cheers,
im quite upset that this didnt do much better. it was the only image in the entire challenge i gave a 10 because it just has so much personality. excellent shot.
Laugh out loud funny and one of the best humor images seen in a while in these challenges. Nothing technical to worry about and as stated, it is laugh out loud funny and humor is always appreciated providing a break in the process of rating and commenting. Very effective from an artistic standpoint with a clever use of everyday objects and inventive lighting. Very well done - by rights this should place extremely high in the challenge just for being different and out of the box.
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