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Two spoons are better than one
Two spoons are better than one
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Challenge: Sugar II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Date: Mar 23, 2013
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/15
Date Uploaded: Mar 26, 2013

 Lighting is two soft boxes either side of the set up and a flashlight underneath the camera pointing at the pouring sugar to give it some streaking. Flash on camera bounced off wall using rear curtain flash to trigger soft boxes at end of exposure.

Set up is:
Black backdrop
Black t-shirt on table with sugar poured onto it
2 DIY spoon stands made out of wood with slits cut in them and the spoons are held in place with a piece of wire so the spoons didn't slip through the slits / holes.
Also used my big 70-200 lens hood and put it on my 24-105 so that I didn't get lens flare from the soft boxes that were close by and almost in the frame.
Took me a while to find a jug that could pour the sugar in a fairly smooth motion. Also needed to get the right spoons with the right amount of "lip" to angle the falling sugar without too much splash.

Editing - tweak in ACR, import to PS, dodge and burn with luminosity masks, some cloning to get rid of stray grains of sugar, B&W layer from Nik SEP2, resize and sharpen, SFW

Statistics
Place: 4 out of 90
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Votes: 122
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 04/03/2013 02:25:18 AM
Good grief meneer. what on earth are you doing!! What a setup and Hats off to you and your work done here. HM and your skills has been bumped by another notch. Lovely work. So close to a ribbon
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 04/03/2013 02:19:25 AM
What a finish, well done Steve.
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 04/03/2013 12:45:34 AM
Congrats on the HM. Nice work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/02/2013 09:04:48 PM
Neat idea, I like it.
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 04/02/2013 08:06:15 PM
Well done.
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 03/30/2013 09:25:04 PM
Nice cascade
The border is unnecessary and restrictive of the movement
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 03/30/2013 07:56:54 AM
I'm sure this will do very well in this challenge !!!
Trickling sugar is nothing new, but the use of two spoons is intriguing
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 03/29/2013 09:40:47 PM
Very nice shot!!
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 03/27/2013 08:28:01 AM
nice creativity, very good results.
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