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Kraft Cheese and Macaroni... It's the Cheeeeesiest!
Kraft Cheese and Macaroni... It's the Cheeeeesiest!
arron_christensen


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Challenge: Childhood Without Children II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Home
Date: Jan 22, 2008
Aperture: f2.8
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/40 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2008

 I love mac and cheese...and it still tasted good after the shoot.

The setup was interesting. First, I had to make a blue backround out of one of my t-shirts draped and pinned on a chair. Then I had to put the bowl on a seperate chair, raised by phone books. A small house lamp went in between for back lighting. The spoon was taped to the tilt adjustment on my old tripod, and my silver reflector was mounted over the bowl using two mic stands. A second lamp ended up being used to fight the shadows that appeared under the spoon. It was quite funny looking to say the least.

The I made the food. And shot the pic. And ate some of the food. Yum.

Photshop was just levels, curves, a color adjustment to make the blue's richer, resize, usm, and save for web. It was quite fun....and tasty ;)

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 141
Avg (all users): 5.9237
Avg (commenters): 7.5217
Avg (participants): 5.7213
Avg (non-participants): 5.9943
Views since voting: 13631
Views during voting: 395
Votes: 236
Comments: 25
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/29/2008 08:22:05 PM
Amazing... best I've seen so far!
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 01/29/2008 07:17:45 PM
clear and sharp.
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 01/29/2008 03:32:35 PM
A perfect food shot. Yummy
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 01/29/2008 09:52:27 AM
Very vivid colors and good focus. Thank you so much, you just made me hungry.
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 01/28/2008 10:57:28 PM
Aww, man, this makes me crave macaroni and cheese... :)
Great shot, I love those vivid colours.
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 01/28/2008 08:41:54 PM
A very good job. Good enough to be a menu photograph. The contrast between the blue backdrop, spoon, and mac - great. Bump!
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 01/28/2008 11:43:17 AM
This screams childhood! The detail is sharp and the blue background contrasts nicely with the orange/ yellow noodles. I would be careful about getting too close to your subject, the bottom part of your picture got a little blurry and didn't match up with the sharpness of the top of the photo.
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 01/28/2008 11:05:03 AM
It looks so good it makes me hungry!
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 01/28/2008 01:39:56 AM
My personal food of choice as a child! This photo really makes me hungry for Mac&Cheese!
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 01/27/2008 04:45:31 AM
Simple shot, complementary colours in the yellow/orange - blue working well with each other.
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 01/25/2008 10:26:30 PM
You sucessfuly captured apetising. Great colors as well.
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 01/25/2008 09:57:14 PM
The color of the macaroni looks a bit over-saturated. Nice shot otherwise.
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 01/24/2008 08:11:14 PM
Love it! Very original!
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 01/24/2008 03:15:48 PM
I must have been the only child not to like that stuff. My mother would make it for my brother and sister and I would have something else. Wonderful colours and comp here.
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 01/24/2008 01:49:37 PM
Love it! I'm giving it the highest score of the challenge! Great colours, great lighting, and it's so apropos of the challenge. Congrats!
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 01/24/2008 01:09:56 PM
This IS childhood! Great color contract. Nice focus. Looks like a Kraft TV commercial. Well done!
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 01/24/2008 11:22:43 AM
nice take on this challenge
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 01/24/2008 01:16:47 AM
Good quality photo with great lighting.
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 01/24/2008 12:17:41 AM
I like how you can see the reflection of the mac and cheese in the bowl on the spoon! The blue background really brings out the orange and yellows! Great job! The only thing that bothers me is that the front part of the mac and cheese is blurry, my eyes are drawn from the spoon right down to that blurry patch. But overall congrats on a amazing picture! :D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/23/2008 07:15:59 PM
very cool! you present the mac and cheese very well. the blue background is perfect
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 01/23/2008 03:13:09 PM
nice thinking. I like the idea of food from our childhoods, but not an appealing subject for me as I hate cheese!

The photo itself is very well done, focus, exposure and composition are great! The background also work brialliantly with the cheese.

Right I'm going to end this comment here so I don't have to keep looking at the cheese *spew* ;-)
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 01/23/2008 02:45:11 PM
great colors
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 01/23/2008 11:47:40 AM
I remember those days. Visited them again in college.
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 01/23/2008 11:37:37 AM
I feed this to my kids at least once a week. nice image!
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 01/23/2008 08:16:14 AM
Someone should call Kraft....they need this picture!!
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