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More comfort food please.
More comfort food please.
willem


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Challenge: Food Photography (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Sony Alpha a6700
Lens: Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS
Date: Dec 19, 2024
Aperture: F16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 4 s
Date Uploaded: Dec 19, 2024

 SNY01022

4 seconds exposure: flash was fired, then I waited approx 2 seconds (with ambient light) and then moved background with "falling" sweets slowly upwards during the remaining 2 seconds.

I always wanted to try this technique of creating an illusion of falling/moving objects by combining flash with a continuous exposure.

The sweets were stuck with coctail sticks onto a cardboard background with oasis floral foam behind it. The sticks were oriented towards the camera to become invisible. Light from two sides to prevent shadow. This makes the image taking process very repeatable and not so messy and unpredictable as it would be if I would be really dropping the sweets.
Also, with dropping sweets, it would be difficult getting the movement blur since this requires quite a long exposure.

Does anyone spot the fault: The top two sweets are behind the bag, instead of in the bag?

I will post a "how'd they do that" picture after the challenge.
Here is the link

Editing: only crop, resize, sharpen

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 17
Avg (all users): 6.3571
Avg (participants): 6.1538
Avg (non-participants): 6.5333
Views since voting: 189
Views during voting: 76
Votes: 28
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 01/07/2025 01:56:03 PM
Very nice work. I particularly like the soft movement. Congrats top 5!
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 01/06/2025 12:28:24 AM
Very creative a lot of work went into this I can tell, I hope you didn’t eat the candy afterwards, think of all the chemicals. :(
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/05/2025 10:18:03 PM
Like a sugar avalanche I guess. Don't know why this is called "comfort" food. It gives me heartburn.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/05/2025 05:30:26 PM
I love liquorice allsorts. I want to put my hand out and catch the excess.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/03/2025 07:17:17 AM
Even looking at it makes me happy
Love the colors - my highest vote for this picture
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 12/31/2024 07:11:03 PM
Clever take on the challenge. I think I would like it even better without the bit of bag in the top right, but I understand you likely included it to give a sense of the candies being shaken out.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2024 12:44:44 PM
I’m liking the photo, the colors are great and it’s got a fun vibe. Plus licorice is one of my favorite candies. But in regards to the title… comfort food, to me, is more about warm filling things, savory or non savory, that scratch an itch with no regard to calorie or nutrition content. Pure confection (sugar) doesn’t really fall into that category.
It’s probably just me though (I don’t drink soda either).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/31/2024 10:52:43 AM
I like the concept and the feeling of movement!
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