I wasn't really satisfied with the shots I took today for Flash of Red February. I did process 2 of them, but in the end, they just didn't fit my goal of playing more with positive/negative space today, so at the last minute I decided not to post them and pulled this one out of the files from last week.
As per Gibson's suggestion, I played around with several crops, and landed on this one as my favorite. Initially I was thinking I'd like more negative space and less positive; but this shot is the opposite of that and I think it really works here. I also love how the black and white totally pops out the details on the spoons.
Lesson learned- tomorrow I will hunt out more doo-dads to take close-ups of!
i always forget that the kitchen gears are a good subject to shoot when i can't get out of the house for some reasons. i like the texture of that the overuse created. mine are the same, but i won't get new ones. i had mine since i learned how to bake back when i was still in the old country. you capture the 'silvery' colour of the metal.
You are not going to believe this but I have the exact same spoons and we live on opposite sides of the world! I like the scratches in them, well used and well loved.
Love the fact that your using common household objects as your subject matter, and you're taking the commonplace and making them both interesting and complex with lighting and design.
Great crop Ann
I think my favourite part is the signs of wear and tear on those! All those little scratches and bumps make a wonderful pattern and each of them tells a story.
Many thanks to all and a special thanks to the 3 of you who fav'd this! I forgot to check my stats to see who it was. Ah yes, my faithful measuring spoons. As some of you noted they are OLD! My mom gave them to me as a bridal shower gift so they've been in use for 37 years now! And thanks to Debs, I now know they're universal! Although I'm pretty sure the measurements don't read the same. We use teaspoons and tablespoons. Aren't you folks in SA metric? And yes, they could definitely tell some stories! Like the time I followed my mother's spaghetti sauce recipe to a T- right from the recipe I'd copied off her recipe card. We took one bite of the sauce and were gulping down water like there was a fire in our throats! I called up mom and said, "What did I do wrong?!" "Oh," she replied, "I never used that much red pepper in my sauce. Your father didn't like it that way and neither did you and your sisters." After that I'd always double check with her on any recipe of hers I'd copied!
@olivetreeann As a matter of fact, I have those same measuring spoons myself, and they pre-date yours! I have, and use, the set my own mother used in the 1950s, if not the 1940s. And I think of her every time I use them.
@olivetreeann Mine set don't have as much history as yours, but we do use table and tea spoon measures in SA especially as many recipes are international (UK and US ones). But as Bill says, we also know the conversion to ml for each spoon size. @bill_fe
Thank you Bill, Bev, Debs and Nicole! I used a recipe from Sally recently where I needed to convert the amounts. I am awful at math! So thankfully I found a website that had a chart on all the conversions.
Great crop Ann
Many thanks to all and a special thanks to the 3 of you who fav'd this! I forgot to check my stats to see who it was. Ah yes, my faithful measuring spoons. As some of you noted they are OLD! My mom gave them to me as a bridal shower gift so they've been in use for 37 years now! And thanks to Debs, I now know they're universal! Although I'm pretty sure the measurements don't read the same. We use teaspoons and tablespoons. Aren't you folks in SA metric? And yes, they could definitely tell some stories! Like the time I followed my mother's spaghetti sauce recipe to a T- right from the recipe I'd copied off her recipe card. We took one bite of the sauce and were gulping down water like there was a fire in our throats! I called up mom and said, "What did I do wrong?!" "Oh," she replied, "I never used that much red pepper in my sauce. Your father didn't like it that way and neither did you and your sisters." After that I'd always double check with her on any recipe of hers I'd copied!
@leestevo Thanks Lee-Ann!
Debs is right, 1T = 15ml, 1t = 5ml 1/2t = 2.5ml & 1/4 t = 1.25ml
Thank you Bill, Bev, Debs and Nicole! I used a recipe from Sally recently where I needed to convert the amounts. I am awful at math! So thankfully I found a website that had a chart on all the conversions.