Looks good. Funny you should post this now. I've just grabbed a couple of things from the fridge for lunch. One was some hummus with a best-before date of 20.02. I figured that as it had icicles in it, it'd been somewhat preserved and would be fine.
@hown no Howard, there is a light in the back of the fridge. Must admit I was panicking a bit because I didn't have a shot for today and just tried this on the off-chance, but I ended up quite liking it.
Jan, I feel like I'm asking you a personal question, but what settings did you shoot this on? I think this is BEAUTIFUL and I'm trying so hard to learn the tricks of the trade. So, I'm bluntly asking you how you did this type of shot! :) Thanking you in advance!
@thendrix58 Hi Terry, don't worry about asking how people took their shots - I don't think that many people on here would mind answering that question. The basic info (shutter speed, aperture etc) can usually be seen if you look at the Exif info to the right of the picture above.
I use a bridge camera - so nothing very fancy. I used a tripod set up about 4 feet from the fridge and used an aperture of f5 and zoomed in to give the blurry background. The shutter speed was 1/15 sec and the ISO was 400 which makes the image a bit grainy.
I guess that the main effect (i.e. the richness of the colours) comes from making an HDR image from three images taken at different exposures. I use Photomatix for that and it sounds like a lot of hassle but takes less than 10 mins in reality. Some people don't like the effect, but it can be done subtly and I think that it gives a depth to colours that to me makes them look more like my eyes saw them. I then played around with the lighting levels and cropped the final image in Photoshop Elements.
I know it all sounds a bit time consuming, but in reality only took about 15 mins from start to finish.
Wonderful idea and execution.
I use a bridge camera - so nothing very fancy. I used a tripod set up about 4 feet from the fridge and used an aperture of f5 and zoomed in to give the blurry background. The shutter speed was 1/15 sec and the ISO was 400 which makes the image a bit grainy.
I guess that the main effect (i.e. the richness of the colours) comes from making an HDR image from three images taken at different exposures. I use Photomatix for that and it sounds like a lot of hassle but takes less than 10 mins in reality. Some people don't like the effect, but it can be done subtly and I think that it gives a depth to colours that to me makes them look more like my eyes saw them. I then played around with the lighting levels and cropped the final image in Photoshop Elements.
I know it all sounds a bit time consuming, but in reality only took about 15 mins from start to finish.