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PHOTO ASSIGNMENT #61 - Coffee (COMMENTS)

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Use this thread for posting your comments, and/or current/prior work for Assignment #61 Coffee

Coffee subject can be the beans, the grounds, the brewing equipment, or the finished product. This leads the assignment more towards a staged photo rather than catching life as it goes by. Anything from a simple cup of Joe to a Mocha-frappa-java-latte-caramel-whipped-grande can be the subject.

Staging shots is not one of my strengths, so by choosing this I hope to learn a few pointers from the submissions. Post processing is allowed.

Motorcycles are purely optional on this one.
 
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This will be fun... I know Tim_K has a great 'morning' coffee shot he's shared with us. My wheels are turning on this one already....
 
So I'm still working on concepts as I haven't made it out yet. Just been busy. But I did find one "product" staged type shot in archives. Russell's Coffeehouse/Austin.

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M38A1 said:
This will be fun... I know Tim_K has a great 'morning' coffee shot he's shared with us. My wheels are turning on this one already....
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This was my fave. How many of you can say your coffee smiled back at you:

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My Turkish coffee rig. Turkish is great in the summer when you want a little bit of coffee that goes a looooooooong way:

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My morning coffee at the OST in Bandera:

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Lastly, not coffee per se, but here are the lamps at Starbucks:

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Playing with the camera this morning before even sipping the coffee.

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Less than a week to go on this one and there are no entries yet. Think I will toss one of these over there to get the pump primed.
 
Playing with a new app on my phone at work. Post processing filter done from within the app.

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I'm thinking tonight is "coffee night" to go see what I can create. :photo:
 
I should be getting my order of Juan Valdez later today so I'll have some beans to play with for a while...(yeah, that sounded strange).
 
I had thought about this one, but unless you know how coffee is roasted, it's just 'a machine' picture.

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Tweaking my shot in I-Photo on a break here...

Original seems too stark, cold, uninviting. Not warm like coffee.

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Playing with the saturation, brightness, and tone gives this...

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Further fooling with effects...

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Warmer, but too far?
 
Saturday morning in Boston. Somebody nameless forgot to take their big boy camera. Shot with a Samsung Captivate. Edited in Picnik.


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Poo Yii! Amost forgot about this one. Had to drum up something fastly. Wanted to include the coffee type also but the better pic was without it. So!
 
Ed - have you considered a tighter crop of the mug/contents? ie: eliminating some of the clutter on the top right and just focus on coffee, rim, cup/handle edge? :trust:

In spite of the heat, I think I'm going back out into the night this evening to see what I can come up with. Ruta Maya and Joe's Coffee, both on South Congress Ave. come to mind.... And Home Depot :deal:

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Like this???

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Can't get all of the clutter out of the top right corner, but it is better. Thanks!
 
Tim Kreitz said:
This was my fave. How many of you can say your coffee smiled back at you:

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Now another one of my Kreitz favorites. And I have a lot of Kreitz favorites. Some even framed at put up on the walls at Casa Tricepilot.

Tim, if you can render this with the plate not chopped, please PM me. I just like that Joe's attitude in that shot.

Winner.
 
ed29 said:
Like this???
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Yeah, but I'd be curious to see it even tighter. Nobody says you have to have that full round rim, right? :trust:

Hope you don't mind, but this was what I was thinking...
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