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Published: 2005-06-17 23:07:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 3222; Favourites: 72; Downloads: 147
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Food coloring.I really like this photo for some reason... Possibly because of the simplicity?
//.Home-Studio yayness.\\
+ Computer Paper
+ Food Coloring Containers
+ Spoon
//.Image Editing.\\
+ Saturation
+ Contrast
OMG They finally fixed the recent deviation showing up on your userpage problem!
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Hi...I would like to ask permission if I can use this as a part of a web that I'm designing. It would be great to have this stunning shot in the web. Would love to hear from you soon. Thanks.
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Sure, just credit me on the site and when you're done it'd be cool if you could send me the link so I can see how it turned out.
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Interesting concept. The colours and lighting are awesome.
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Lol my mother has those exact food colours. Weird. Oh, and cool photo ^_^
for real fun, try putting drops of them into icy water, and watching the colours unfurl... Sooo pretty. Worth a photo, like inverse-colour-hiroshima-underwater... so much amusement was had when I discovered this (...)
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Oh, I'll have to try that out sometime. Thanks for the suggestion.
And I don't think it's strange -- a lot of people have this brand/set of food coloring.
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This is a great shot because of it's simplicity, the execution is captivating. I love the coloring (no pun intended). The lighting is very nice and the way the red bottle sits on the spoon and is therefore rises over the rest is awesome. I think the spoon really makes the image stand apart creatively from any other possible image. Good work
~Dave
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they look like little people to me. would be an awesome wallpaper
love the simplicity.
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well silent i've been looking at yourstuff for a while now and i've got to say this is most definatly one of your best peices yet.
For some reason this picture remindes me alot of childhood, not mine so much but just childhood as a whole. Its probably the almost pastel like colors and playing with food coloring but yeah it makes me think of childhood which is pretty cool.
As for crit i think it would have been cooler if the spoon could have reflected some of the food coloring like if it was at a bit of an angle. But this is just my opinion. I dont like the hard glare on the far left of the red bottle because the rest of the image, especially the background, is very free flowing transistions but the hard line there just kind of distracts the eye.
This is of course a very technically sound photo the almost gradient of a background is placed perfectly to compliment the food coloring. The lighting and focus is wonderful. But really makes this photo stand out are the absolutly wonderful colors. The soft flow of the background and the bright food coloring lids are great.
I do have a question though, well more like two. Whenever i try to use paper as a background its always slightly off somehow so i was wondering how you did the lighting so evenly, and also how you got the gradient effect in the background, if it was just a soft light, or what?
Hope its not too much trouble to answer those.
Again a great, great peice.
-Quinn
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Thank you very much for your in depth critique. I appreciate it quite a bit.
As for the lighting, try this: [link] (It's a .zip file with a tutorial in it) Hopefully it works for you, though it's kind of in rough draft stage still.
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Its official, silent...you're my hero. The tutorial is great and i'm sure if and when you post it here on DA it will definatly get the appreciation it deserves.
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i do have one question though, you say to use white paper, but the bg's you show are blue and red so did you use colored paper, or colored light?
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Tungsen lightbulbs naturally cast an orange tint, so I used two different kind of blue-filters, one of which is bluer than the other. The other one which was less blue made it turn slightly pinkish. On a manual camera, you can adjust the white-balance for the same effects.
Of course, you can digitally add color by messing with the levels or Variations feature on photoshop.
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alright, cool. thanks so much!
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Food coloring is the most toxic thing we injest in food on a regular basis. Aswell as margerine, and aspartame/fake sugers.
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I used to eat the stuff as a kid (like age < 5), food coloring. I had to go to the toxic safty center to get my stomach pumped. I refuse to eat that much of it anymore. yellow number five twinkies also have loads of "marble", basically white filler ground up rock, thats why they were so cheap in the 50s.
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The colors and the spoon look good against the blank background.
And they finally fixed that annoying delay?
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Yeah, but I noticed that recent favorites don't show up right away now. ><;;
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But I think there's still a delay with mine.
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It's colourful but it's still simple and it's very well lit. I like the white corona thingy you got going in the middle that sort of frames the dyes. 
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fucking awesome! I love it. very simple and clean, but full of color. Nice!
^^^ i was going to say something similar to that effect. mostly starting with 'fucking awesome!'
the simplicity makes it easier to take in, and the spoon adds a lot rather than it just being food coloring. awesome!
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this is a very lovely piece!!
*squeals* i have those same food coloring things!!
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I think it is the simplicity as well. I like how the red dye is turned slightly off to the side to break the monotony of the others.
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fucking awesome! I love it. very simple and clean, but full of color. Nice!
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