Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Chai & Cookies

Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Chai & Cookies

Today I decided to photograph my late morning snack of Chai tea and Ginger Cookies. I struggled to have the tones match in each photo. The color of the black really seemed to change a lot from different angles.
Individual photos from this diptych can be found in my SFS set (for EXIF info).

CS - would love tips on photographic dark semi reflective surfaces.

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Uploaded on Feb 3, 2012

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Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Chai

Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Chai

Taken with a tripod and a foam core board for a bounce (office curtain partially open). The light was really overcast and grey today so I was worried that nothing would turn out but fortunately this didn't need much editing: Selective Color Adjustment (black) / Curves adjustment to lighten.

I did want to capture the steam coming out of the cup, but every time I caught the steam the rest of the image was super underexposed. I'll have to try the technique again another time.

CS

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Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Cookies

Souvenir Foto School: Day3 - C for Cookies

Taken with a tripod and a foam core board for a bounce (office curtain partially open). The light was really overcast and grey today so I was worried that nothing would turn out. Unlike my other shot, this one needed quite a bit of editing: Four different selective color adjustments to try to make the black match my other shot a bit better / curves adjustment.

In hindsight I would have left a bit more room at the top of the shot and moved the bowl over to the left a bit so that it isn't sitting so heavily towards the center. I experimented with different focal points and even though the cookie is out of focus, I decided that for today, I liked it best when the focus was on the crumbs.

CS

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Uploaded on Feb 3, 2012

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swan outtake

swan outtake

I actually like this image better but it didn't fit with any of my other pics for a diptych.

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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2012

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Souvenir Foto School: Day 2: S for Swan

Souvenir Foto School: Day 2: S for Swan

To be honest, I had a really tough time with today's assignment. I must have spent at least 2 hours trying to edit these shots and finally settled on this free bokeh texture to try and hide all the flaws: www.flickr.com/photos/asjaboros/3974409936/ Maybe I'll come back and give it new edit when I'm not so frustrated.

Individual images are found in my Souvenir Foto Set (for EXIF info).

SC

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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2012

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