Spaghetti stir fry…that’s my dinner.
I had a different idea for today’s post, but my wife suggested may be I should try food photography. True, I haven’t taken food photographs for quite some time now. So I was delighted to take the picture of stir fry. Further, we had good amount of sunlight this evening coming through the window and took this picture in natural lighting.
I got the idea for today’s post from Flickr. Here are some ideas on how this was done.
Obviously you need an Apple for this project 😉
Used a spray bottle to create water drops effect and a black yoga mat for the backdrop. I had this set up in the basement where I could have more control over the light. Turned off all the lights source – except a project light with a wax paper on top, lit from the left side. Then had my D70/Nikkor 60mm macro set on my tripod and shot this in full manual mode.
I am not totally satisfied with this though. I think the front was overexposed. May be next time, I need to play with the lighting setup.
Originally I was wanting to post a macro capture of a bubble. That didn’t workout very well. I had unsuccessfully tried capturing a bubble from a GermX pump using a reverse mounted Br-2a/28mm prime combination. I didn’t like the way it turned out. So I was going through our closet and came across this box with mending supplies. Played around a bit with setup and finally got this colorful capture. Another post using my Nikkor 60mm macro lens.
I had to renew my license plates today. As I was preparing to remove my old license plates over the past weekend, I found that the bolts were really rusty and had a hard time to get them off the license plates – those plates were there in the car for almost 10+ years now. So when I got back from DMV office this evening, I saw these rusty bolts and thought these were good subject for today’s post.So here are the rusty bolts sitting atop the new license plate.
As I was looking for a subject for today’s post, I saw my daughter’s wicker bag. I really liked the pattern of knots on her bag. Framed it using my Nikkor 60mm macro and shot this at f18 and 1second exposure.
We had this coconut sitting in our counter top for more that a week now ready to be opened/slit. I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t spoiled when I had this split open this noon – typically we tend to split coconut as soon as we get it from the store 🙂
I bought a couple of cheapo project clamp lights from Homedepot store and used it to lit the coconuts. I used my 50mm prime to capture this in full manual mode.
I thought it came out good.
I always wanted to capture the picture of a kettle blowing out steam. So tried this out by mounting my trusty 50mm prime on D70 on a tripod and setting the aperture to f11. Then put the camera in self timer mode and let the shutter click at 1 second.
Not a good shot…but one of these days I will perfect it 😉
Took this picture this evening as I was waiting for my daughter’s school bus to arrive. It was rainy day. I was holding my umbrella to protect my Fuji F30 point-and-shoot camera and used my other hand to take this picture. Hence it didn’t turnout the way I want it – may be one of these days I will re-shoot the walk with my D70.
Another macro post.
Today’s subject – toothpicks 😉
I took a series of pictures this evening (as I was waiting at Midas for an oil change) with the idea of posting them as a collage. I want the pictures to tell a story.
So here is the sequence of events…
Now you can tie these events with the picture collage.