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S'mores: The Unofficial Dessert of Summer
S'mores: The Unofficial Dessert of Summer
giantmike


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Summertime Meals (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Jul 21, 2010
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/15
Galleries: Advertisement, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2010

 I wonder if I will get any DNMC votes due to this being a dessert instead of a meal.

This took be a while to setup just right. I used my newly constructed light box, a pillow case as the background, and a vinyl tablecloth as the base. I went through multiple background colors and bases before I got to these.

Setup is pretty much as it looks. Open bag of marshmallows, box of graham crackers, and Hersey's bar in front of the constructed s'more. I roasted the marshmallow on my grill, since I didn't have a campfire handy. The s'more is sitting on a espresso saucer, which happen to be the perfect size. After setting all this up, I kept adjusting the lights until they looked exactly how I wanted (this was the hardest part).

In post processing (Aperture):
* Set white balance
* Increase exposure
* Increase black point
* Increase brightness
* Increase contrast
* Decrease saturation
* Bring endpoints of levels in
* Sharpen
* Exported to resized JPEG

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I want to thank everyone for the fantastic comments! These are the nicest comments I have gotten on any image to date.

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My outtake:

Statistics
Place: 20 out of 63
Avg (all users): 5.7644
Avg (commenters): 7.0769
Avg (participants): 5.6970
Avg (non-participants): 5.7785
Views since voting: 1043
Views during voting: 314
Votes: 191
Comments: 14
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/03/2010 08:36:04 PM
well done.
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 08/03/2010 08:06:10 PM
Love this!
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 08/02/2010 03:58:47 PM
Nice lighting; well done; my favorite of the challenge.
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 08/01/2010 09:25:45 AM
You should try using Ghirardelli chocolate.. it's better
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 07/31/2010 01:01:13 PM
Well done. I half wish that you had taken out the bright blue box from the background since its colorful keeps drawing my gaze. Either way, nice image.
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 07/31/2010 12:23:31 AM
nice concept
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 07/30/2010 09:26:34 PM
love the table cloth choice for this one...i actually looked for one like that for a shot i was thinking about then went a diffent way... i wish the smore took up more of the frame, but i get all the ingredients in the back. nice shot
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 07/30/2010 02:24:57 AM
perfection, this better win
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 07/28/2010 10:44:30 PM
Looks delicious to me. yum yum..
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 07/28/2010 06:52:14 PM
Love the concept and execution's pretty good.
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 07/28/2010 06:32:09 PM
I'm so glad someone did a s'mores picture - and it's very well done! Great job!
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 07/28/2010 01:02:27 PM
Nice shot of a smores, but I consider this a snack, not a meal, 5.
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 07/28/2010 12:49:55 PM
This throws me right back to our vacation camping just a month ago. Great idea for the challenge and well done photographically (is that a word?) My choice for yellow.
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 07/28/2010 11:42:19 AM
Yep, my kind of summer treat. Nicely composed and photographed.
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