5. Olive - July 14-20, 2013
Byron-
This photo is entitled "The Taking of Olive Hill". It was 1943, the evil Olives had control of the hill. The hill is of strategic importance to the good guys. They are dressed in their olive drab uniforms. As you can see, the fighting was fierce but ultimately the guys in the olive drab uniforms prevailed.
This photo is entitled "The Taking of Olive Hill". It was 1943, the evil Olives had control of the hill. The hill is of strategic importance to the good guys. They are dressed in their olive drab uniforms. As you can see, the fighting was fierce but ultimately the guys in the olive drab uniforms prevailed.
Deron-
Well, it ain't 'The Taking of Olive Hill', or 'Lovey, Please Pass the Olives', but gosh darn it, it's mine! This was my back up, if I couldn't entice the neighborhood birds to eat from my string of olives... they weren't hungry.
I had a different one that looked more crisp, but I thought the light was too harsh and kind of washed out the
"O-L-I-V-E". This one, I kept the flash closed, which left the shutter open a split second longer... what am I doing? Like I have to tell you blokes what I did and how I'm trying to justify it!!!
Oh well, 'Scrabbled Olive'.
Well, it ain't 'The Taking of Olive Hill', or 'Lovey, Please Pass the Olives', but gosh darn it, it's mine! This was my back up, if I couldn't entice the neighborhood birds to eat from my string of olives... they weren't hungry.
I had a different one that looked more crisp, but I thought the light was too harsh and kind of washed out the
"O-L-I-V-E". This one, I kept the flash closed, which left the shutter open a split second longer... what am I doing? Like I have to tell you blokes what I did and how I'm trying to justify it!!!
Oh well, 'Scrabbled Olive'.
Kevin-
Here is my olive shot. As I expected I decided to try and create a classic food photograph. Not that I have much experience in anything like that but I do know that the best food photographs are usually backlit, which this one was using available light coming through a window. I shot it with my 24-70mm zoom set to 58mm. At ISO 200 the exposure was 1/2 second (tripod mounted of course) at f/8. I really thought I would prefer shots with the lens more wide open (f/2.8) to really limit the depth of field but in the end I liked this image best. The cheese and crackers were placed in the background to add to the appetizer setting. About 40% of the time to shoot this shopping for the right olives, bowl, etc. 40% was in setting up the camera, bounce cards, and arranging all the parts in the set (for example, I placed to olives one at a time in the bowl with large tweezers). And 20% was final processing in Lightroom. Enjoy. And Byron, you can delete these olives immediately!
Here is my olive shot. As I expected I decided to try and create a classic food photograph. Not that I have much experience in anything like that but I do know that the best food photographs are usually backlit, which this one was using available light coming through a window. I shot it with my 24-70mm zoom set to 58mm. At ISO 200 the exposure was 1/2 second (tripod mounted of course) at f/8. I really thought I would prefer shots with the lens more wide open (f/2.8) to really limit the depth of field but in the end I liked this image best. The cheese and crackers were placed in the background to add to the appetizer setting. About 40% of the time to shoot this shopping for the right olives, bowl, etc. 40% was in setting up the camera, bounce cards, and arranging all the parts in the set (for example, I placed to olives one at a time in the bowl with large tweezers). And 20% was final processing in Lightroom. Enjoy. And Byron, you can delete these olives immediately!