1.3 billion cups of coffee sold each year...

[Reschsmooth]

but these two were home made.

As someone obsessed with coffee, I wanted to get a shot different to the standard pic of an extraction. I was inspired by another simple shot of a bunch of coffee cups in the sink awaiting washing up.

EXIF data:

Lens: 17-35mm F/2.8 D
Focal Length: 35mm
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
1/125 sec - F/16
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 100
Optimize Image: Normal
White Balance: Auto
AF Mode: AF-S
Flash Sync Mode: Front Curtain
Auto Flash Mode: Balanced i-TTL
Auto Flash Comp: +1.0 EV

I had the metz bouncing off the ceiling, with the on-camera flash bouncing off something to the left.



As I am still getting used to playing around with multiple flash and off-camera flash, C&C most welcome...

Cheers

P

[Yi-P]

Technically very nice, but I thought you said... "coffee"

Why is coffee white and transparent?

[Reschsmooth]

Ummm, the coffee had already been consumed

[Dargan]

Hmmm .... Don't think I could get a decent flat white out of those, and the handles! Very Yuppie Aside from that well lit subjects

[Geoff]

Very arty indeed Patrick. This is the sort of image I'd expect to see in one of the Sunday glossy mags. I like your experimentation

[PALL]

very artistic work,i loved it.

[stubbsy]

Patrick

You've done exceptionally well with this. The composition and colour is good and the bubbles in the water work well. Only little niggle is, on my monitor, the WB seems a little off (assuming the cups are white) - seems to have a slight blue tinge.

[Alex]

I like this a lot and I am a tea drinker

I agree, this is a kind of a shot I would expect to see full page in a glossy magazine.

Well done.

Alex

[Reschsmooth]

Thanks guys (Geoff, I'm surprised you're up this early given what I expect were great celebrations last night ).

Peter, their is a slightly blue cast over it as I had trouble trying to get the brightness and colour right.

I will post an inverted version later.

I was a little nervous having the Metz standing on the side of the sink, connected with a short sync chord with water running everywhere.

Cheers

P

[stubbsy]

Thanks guys (Geoff, I'm surprised you're up this early given what I expect were great celebrations last night ).

Peter, their is a slightly blue cast over it as I had trouble trying to get the brightness and colour right.

I will post an inverted version later.

I was a little nervous having the Metz standing on the side of the sink, connected with a short sync chord with water running everywhere.

Cheers

P

Patrick - Geoff is crook with a cold so cancelled his 30th celebrations.

If you have Photoshop choose Image/Adjustments/Colour Balance and for midtones and for shadows set +10 Red, -22 Blue. From my quick test this is close to right.

As for water & electricity - no problems as long as there's no metal anywhere

[daniel_r]

As I am still getting used to playing around with multiple flash and off-camera flash, C&C most welcome...

Cheers

P

I see you're hosting off flickr so you may have come across it already, but check out the Strobist Flickr Group and the Strobist Blog

I mainly like it to see how people are using small off camera flash. Good stuff.

Great image btw, the Illy cups really make it.
I've been trying to think up a shot with a couple of Illy cans... still working on that

[Reschsmooth]

If you have Photoshop choose Image/Adjustments/Colour Balance and for midtones and for shadows set +10 Red, -22 Blue. From my quick test this is close to right.

As for water & electricity - no problems as long as there's no metal anywhere

Peter, thanks I will give this a go.

In the interim, this is one I desaturated and then inverted (or did I invert first than desturate?)

[Reschsmooth]

I see you're hosting off flickr so you may have come across it already, but check out the Strobist Flickr Group and the Strobist Blog

I mainly like it to see how people are using small off camera flash. Good stuff.

Thanks Daniel - I have spent a lot of time on the strobist site - great information.

This is the pic adjusted as per Peter's suggestions and I tend to agree with him...



Thanks for the feedback everyone and the tips on how to make those improvements that seem minor but make a big difference.

P

Edit - in PS, the cups look a lot more white and the sink more grey compared to the overall blue look here and on flickr!

[gstark]

As for water & electricity - no problems as long as there's no metal anywhere

Does the stainless steel sink qualify as metal?

Patrick, what a marvelous shot. This is really a morning after the night before sort of image, and you've captured it very well.

[gstark]

Edit - in PS, the cups look a lot more white and the sink more grey compared to the overall blue look here and on flickr!

What I'm seeing is actually a touch of cyan, rather than blue.

[sheepie]

Edit - in PS, the cups look a lot more white and the sink more grey compared to the overall blue look here and on flickr!

This sounds like a colourspace issue - have you converted to RGB before uploading it? That may be the problem.

[Reschsmooth]

Edit - in PS, the cups look a lot more white and the sink more grey compared to the overall blue look here and on flickr!

This sounds like a colourspace issue - have you converted to RGB before uploading it? That may be the problem.

Leon, the pic is in RGB mode in PS (I presume that is what you mean - I am very much a newbie when it comes to PS).

Oh, and my wife pointed out that I used the word 'their' instead of 'there' in a previous post. Sincere apoligies

P