A light tea

This was not my original concept for this shot but I think I was bitting off more than my equipment could chew. Never-the-less, tea anyone?

[Sharon Lee]

Love the concept... So cool. I think it works well

[Paige]

Awesome love it! How was it done?

[David Price]

I took a shot with & without the tea stuff & used layer masks in PS to make the light appear in the spout & in the cup.

[Alicia]

Great shot. I'd love to do this some time but it's a little beyond me. Nice to find a man with refined taste in tea sets however ;-) +Fav

[Alicia]

Hey David if you're on Facebook you're welcome to join our Brisbane 365 group. We organise meet-ups every now and then. - 365 Brisbane Sunshine Coast is the name of the group.

[David Price]

@tulipgirl @paige3 @sugarmuser - thanks for the comments & favs. @tulipgirl - I do not pretend to be any sort of PS guru & what I have done here is way down the shallow end of the learning curve. If you use PS or Gimp or any number of other programs that include layer masks I am sure you & YouTube could do it. As for the tea set, all I can say is my wife was out for the day & it's easier to seek forgiveness than permission.

[Peter Bunker]

Beautiful - mine's a decaff.

[David Price]

@hopelessromantic - it's on the way

[Alicia]

@david68 that's very amusing!

[Kim]

Fantastic! Love it!

[John Colosimo]

Very creative. What was the original intent if this isn't what you were going for? Or is that a future picture maybe...

[David Price]

@tulipgirl - thanks for the group invite. I have sent a request. @colosimo - I do hope to revisit my original plan. I have a friend with a 100mm macro lens that might get me over the line.

[Michael Girard]

Really cool idea and I think you did an excellent job with it! FAV

[KWind]

Great shot!

[Morné Grewe]

very cool shot!

[DavidW]

Very cool love it

[Staci Kennedy]

Love all the color, the bokeh is awesome!

[Joseph Donnelly]

Very clever, looks great.

[David Price]

@jdonnelly @staci2171 @eosman @mornegrewe @kwind @mgirard @colosimo @kimshots @tulipgirl @paige3 @sugarmuser - thanks everyone for the comments favs & follows. I know I am only 7 weeks into the project but I am finding the positive encouragement from everyone is pushing me to be more creative & become a better photographer. I think it is working.

[Alicia]

Bokeh tea on the PP!

[Stephanie Dc]

Great concept !

[JackieS]

Fantastic bokeh shot, I've got two in my album, it's such fun to do! Fav...

[☠northy]

Really beautifully done! Congrats on pp!

[Mags ッ]

Brilliant Bokeh :)

[David Price]

@tulipgirl @northy - I saw the PP comments and honestly had no idea what you meant. I'm fairly new here so I had to Google it! So thanks for the heads on that and thanks to everybody who helped get it on the PP.

[Kylie Martin]

nice effect

[Ella El Ami]

Wow! Love this Bokeh ! fabulous (:

[Emma Jane Davies]

Love this x

[Vesna]

Fantastic!

[Laurie]

cool

[Aqua Dutch]

Interesting and refreshing. Good one!

[Vanessa Santvoort]

Great capture

[Dawn Reilly]

Great Bokeh!!!

[Hannah Scott]

Wow I love this! I'd love to have this in my kitchen!

[David Price]

@hannahscott13 - does make you wonder what it would taste like I suppose.

[Antonio Vigil]

cool! congrats for the PP. Following! (:

[Laura]

VERY cool.

[tony gig]

Brilliant. Fav

[Ingrid]

very clever... like it very much!

[Stephanie Nguyen]

Nicely executed! Fave.

[Donna]

Delightfully good!

[Thamar]

Great photo!! And a great idea!! LOVE IT!!

[Debra]

Just thought I would let you know. I have been looking everywhere for this photo. I thought it was on DPS. It was here all along. Since I wasn't finding it, I tried to recreate it...results were not particularly good.

[David Price]

@debrac Thanks for the Fav Debra, glad you found it. Hopefully that will help you set up your own version a bit better.

[Debra]

@david68 I don't think I can compete with this. It is perfect. I don't think that I have a fast enough lens...and I am a little afraid of breaking my teapot. How did you lift it up like that?

[David Price]

@debrac My son was holding the tea pot up so there is no trick there. I think the lens speed shouldn't be an issue because there is usually something you can do to compensate. The lens I used is a 24-105 F4 which is not especially fast. I turned the flash to the side, pointing it at a mirror so I didn't get the blown out flash look but you could do that with a diffuser or something. If you only have on camera flash, you or someone else could hold a mirror, reflective card or even white paper in front of it to bounce the light to the side or off the ceiling. Alternatively, use another light source like a flash light that you can position where you need to & selectively illuminate the subject. Let me know how you go.