2 edibles for Ken ;) -Edit - with smaller files

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:57 pm

seeing as he likes his food n all

This is a detail on a Jam Tart my 4 year old daughter made-she's crazy about butterflies!

And this is a macro of some tricolor fusili pasta swirls, lit from behind with my camera phone.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:19 pm

Fun images! Those pasta swirls are a kick. I saw a cable TV program on the Food Network the other night, about how they make various shapes of pasta. Fantastic extrusion machines!

BTW, I noticed that these images took unusually long to display on my DSL line. Turns out they're quite a bit oversized in terms of file length: 500 KB for the first one, 300 KB for the second. Posting guidelines are 200 KB or less per image.

If you're hosting on photomacrography.net, the 200 KB limit is enforced. These images are on photobucket, where nothing would have you alerted you to the issue. It's no big deal, just crank up the compression a notch or two next time.

--Rik

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:44 pm

These are nice, Larry!
I can't figure why or how you do your lighting with a cell phone, though ...

--Betty

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:45 pm

Sorry Rik,I'll bear that in mind next time! Actually I do have smaller files, still the same pixel depth but smaller in memory-I can replace them easily enough.(I normally just upload everything to photobucket and it resizes then to 800x600 but i forget to check the actual file sizes)

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:55 pm

Planapo wrote:These are nice, Larry!
I can't figure why or how you do your lighting with a cell phone, though ...

--Betty

Well, I have no flashgun yet that will work with the 10D so have to improvise, and my old phone, a sony Ericsson W800i has a built in flash that is also a continuous light source,like a modelling light i suppose.
See here:
http://fc52.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/ ... tumm47.jpg

SpecialAgent · Post by **SpecialAgent** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:08 am

yeah Pasta one looks great :-)

Cyberspider · Post by **Cyberspider** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:34 am

Hi Larry,

I like both pictures...

#1: your daughter is very creatively...very nice

thanks for showing to us

#2: Very good composition and a very good DOF! Very simple and very effective

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:22 pm

Thanks markus. She very much likes butterflies and i show her pics of them on here.