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For the REAL coffee lovers!
I've been struggling to get really sharp images with my 50mm f/1.8, so after testing for front or back focus issues and coming up with nothing, I decided to see how it performs on a tripod, using the onboard flash ...
Two shots of the extraction, and a cappuccino from this morning with a bit of crappy mucking around with PP. C & C welcome! Please! 
The cappuccino pic was taken handheld, with no flash, but decent overhead light, as well as sunshine through the window behind me. Oh, the other lesson: clean the underside of the grouphead (espresso machine bit) before taking photos!!!
Hey Matty,
Can you move the peice of apparatus in the foreground out of the way? It bugs me somewhat. I like how you have gone to the trouble of drawing in your cremma. Regards Colin
Amazing what you can do in Photoshop 
Greg Seriously, great photos.
umm ... do you mean the cup at the bottom of the images? or the handle of the portafilter at the top of the images?
It took me a little bit to figure out what you were talking about ... latte art! It's a bit of fun. It's all in the way you pour the milk.
actually, I find latte art easier than photoshop! But then, I've only ever used a trial version of Elements, so I guess I can't really know that for sure.
Cool shot, nice looking coffee too!
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Yep,
square crop for me, less distracting elements in there. well done, if it wasn't getting late, I'd go an make myself a machiato right now 
For your latte art, I would have the cup on a plate and possibly look at a white background. Maybe a bit more DOF so we don't lose too much of the art in the oof area. Cheers, André Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
(misc Nikon stuff)
Matty, did you manage to get behind the counter at Gloria Jeans to take the shots?
Seriously, the cappuccino looks great, although the extraction looks like there is a flat spot towards the back! P
Doubt it, looks like a Starbucks cup plus GJ doesn't use real cupsPhotography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
(misc Nikon stuff)
And you know this, how? (just kidding, I am not going to impose my coffee wa#$erism on anyone).
Don't know actually, just trying to throw some more oil on the fire
And I was reading some comments on the Crema forums about GJ Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
(misc Nikon stuff)
damn you, coffeegeek! actually, the dead spot was in the centre. the first pic was a second or two earlier in the shot (I took about 11 pics of the one shot), and there was a stream coming out the back there. It was a very drippy shot until about the last 3-4 seconds. but I'm despising the e61 grouphead at the moment; it's set so low that it's hard to get my dose spot on. This shot was updosed just a touch too much. The next shot was even worse!
So you're not denying the Gloria Jeans bit then?
My shots have been a bit hit and miss of late as well. P
I'm not denying it. I was given a pack of GJ's Columbian Supremo for Christmas.
Damn in-laws. Everything bad that people say about GJ's coffee is true.
Who says anything bad about GJs? I won't stand for it.
And what did you do to p$$s off your in-laws?
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