Year In Pictures: 2010/03/17
Mar. 17th, 2010 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqIf I could summarize my reason for going through the hassle of roasting my own coffee, it would be to say that it lets me experience coffee the way it was meant to taste. That may not mean a lot to somebody who does not drink coffee, so think of it being analogous to freshly picked, vine-ripened fruit versus the stuff you get in the store that is picked green and allowed to ripen in transit. The stuff in the stores isn't really bad, but once you've had the real thing you'll realize that it's not that good either.
Obviously my objective here was to capture a sieve of coffee fresh out of the roaster. I purposely set it against a mottled snowy background, but by the time the flash fill did its work, the background became largely irrelevant IMO. I wish the picture had captured some wisps of smoke coming off the coffee, but it had mostly stopped smoking, and the wind was rapidly whisking away what little it might have been producing at this point.
I shot this using the new 50mm lens, with an aperture of f/9.5 at 1/200th of a second. I tried a couple of shots without the flash, and a couple with. I went with the flash shot because it brought out more of the colours of the beans.
Obviously my objective here was to capture a sieve of coffee fresh out of the roaster. I purposely set it against a mottled snowy background, but by the time the flash fill did its work, the background became largely irrelevant IMO. I wish the picture had captured some wisps of smoke coming off the coffee, but it had mostly stopped smoking, and the wind was rapidly whisking away what little it might have been producing at this point.
I shot this using the new 50mm lens, with an aperture of f/9.5 at 1/200th of a second. I tried a couple of shots without the flash, and a couple with. I went with the flash shot because it brought out more of the colours of the beans.
