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willem


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Challenge: Chocolate II (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Sony Alpha a6700
Lens: Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS
Date: Feb 20, 2025
Aperture: 20.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 13
Date Uploaded: Feb 20, 2025

 Three mountains formed out of aluminium foil, approx 12 cm high, modeled after the Matterhorn.

Chocolate mixed with a little bit of milk, heated and pasted onto the mountains with a teaspoon. Cooled in freezer.
Background of dark blue paper sprayed with various colors of paint. Punctured to create stars, in front of softbox.
Chocolate mountains covered with powdered sugar.
Spotlight from the left, softbox from the rear, styrofoam on the right to fill in some shadows.

Processing:
Sky darkened (curves).
Reduced the size of the 6 stars (copy,resize,paste)
Contrast enhancement.
Crop.
Vignette.
Resize for dpc and sharpen.

Here is a picture of the setup

It only took approx. 1 hour to create.


Statistics
Place: 3 out of 17
Avg (all users): 6.6400
Avg (participants): 6.5000
Avg (non-participants): 6.7333
Views since voting: 181
Views during voting: 50
Votes: 25
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 02/28/2025 03:07:05 PM
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is hilarious :-) My first reaction was "Not ANOTHER Matterhorn" before I realized this was actually carved chocolate. I admire the effort. The sky's a treat. You get the originality star :-)

What Bear said!
Brilliant, Willem!

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2025 11:01:51 AM
A devoted effort that totally paid off. Congrats!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2025 06:24:00 AM
This is incredible, WOW, the journey was well worth it. Congratulations
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2025 05:21:05 AM
Cool. You did put some effort in it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2025 04:09:59 AM
I am always amazed how much work some photographers on this site spend taking their photos, kudos to you. I wonder how many people thought this was Margaret’s, although I didn’t think she would do something like this.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/28/2025 02:07:30 AM
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Message edited by author 2025-02-28 02:52:18.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/27/2025 07:25:11 AM
I like your creativity. You put effort and thought into it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 02/26/2025 04:41:02 PM
This is hilarious :-) My first reaction was "Not ANOTHER Matterhorn" before I realized this was actually carved chocolate. I admire the effort. The sky's a treat. You get the originality star :-)
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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