Peru Ceja de Selva Estate

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Peru Ceja de Selva Estate

Postby biggerry on Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:49 pm

now that I have your attention with that Subject line :wink:

being laid up with the flu (no its not the oink flu :shock: ) and housebound on the day before the long weekend sucks, however it did give me the opportunity to photograph something that is quite dear to my heart not to mention addicted to :roll: coffee.

Given the recent posts about food photography I reckon i am pretty game to post these up :mrgreen: , however this is a two pronged post, one for the images, two for other coffee lovers out there - the two types of beans seen here are absolute stunners in the taste department!

The larger beans are from the Peru Ceja de Selva Estate (you were wondering when that was gonna come in eh?) the smaller beans are Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. I ordered these roasted through the mail last week. Two days between being roasted and delivered to my door (well PO box, but door sounds better) :up:

So onto the pictures and the final product. I am starting to realise how hard good food/product photography is, there are so many ways of doing it and so many options for composition. Anyway this was done with my super sophisticated lighting setup (code for window, lamp and onboard flash :cough: )

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Re: Peru Ceja de Selva Estate

Postby rflower on Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:55 pm

I really like the 2nd photo. The DOF is spot on. You can almost feel the texture of the beans of those in the foreground.

I thought the left hand scoop in the 1st shot was floating in air, due to one being on the glass placemat, and the other on the wooden (i now realise) table. I would have preferred to see both on the same background.
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Re: Peru Ceja de Selva Estate

Postby biggerry on Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:27 pm

I would have preferred to see both on the same background


yeah looking back now the backgrounds do look a bit disjointed or chopped off. I was trying to get some separation between the two lots of beans.

I really like the 2nd photo. The DOF is spot on.


ta, I really should have included the front of the ladle though - the wonder of hindsight.
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