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Postby Reschsmooth on Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:01 pm

Inspired by MattyJ's coffee photo of a few weeks back, I tried to get a couple of coffee shots. Unfortunately, I don't often get good extractions when I plan to take photos, and this home-roast has been very finicky in terms of grind, dose and tamp, so the shots where often over- or under-extracted.

I must say the roast is very nice with citrusy flavours, a nice acidity and a pleasant aftertaste.

C&C appreciated.

Image PS. I know, E-61 group heads are a pain to photograph. :lol:
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Re: Coffee

Postby sheepie on Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:25 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:PS. I know, E-61 group heads are a pain to photograph. :lol:

hehe - nice self portrait Patrick! They are very shiney eh!

Nice pic - can I suggest a crop just below the line of the group head, so that only the handle and spouts are showing. That gets over the problem of reflection, and provides a nicely balanced pic (imo).

That reminds me - must go and roast some supplies for the week ;)
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Postby PiroStitch on Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:26 pm

all i can say is i'm glad you kept your clothes on while taking the pic :)

you might want to rotate it about 1 or 2 degrees CCW as it's leaning a bit
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Postby mattyjacobs on Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:48 pm

I think what I've learnt about shooting espresso shots is to set everything up (photography-wise), then pull a few shots to get the espresso working. That way, if the start of the shot is looking promising, you can pick up the camera and start shooting.

Which burns through a bit more coffee ... but anyway.

And you're probably already doing that. It's like baby advice ... whatever works.
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Postby Reschsmooth on Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:07 pm

Thanks guys.

Leon - I know what you mean about the crop, however, I do like the look of the 4 or so kg of metal! :D

Wayne - thanks for the advice re alignment - I was in a real rush.

Matty, this was my third shot I pulled this morning - I thought I could get a better extraction by up-dosing and tamping harder. I should have just adjusted the grind. One thing the Mazzer has - stepless grind adjustment, which the Macap doesn't have.
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Postby sheepie on Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:40 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:...I was in a real rush
...Matty, this was my third shot I pulled this morning

These two statements related I wonder? ;) 8)
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Postby shakey on Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:05 am

PiroStitch wrote:all i can say is i'm glad you kept your clothes on while taking the pic :)



Egad. Not the infamous ebay kettle photo

http://humor.about.com/library/graphics/kettle.jpg
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Postby matt-chops on Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:10 am

I like this shot. I like it a lot.

I wonder how a macro of the glass and coffee itself would work out?
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