Kitchen Creative Shots

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Here are some more shots taken in the kitchen. Forgive me for showing another fork shot.
Regards
Bob
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Lord Vetinari

Lovely series Bob - lots of interesting subjects in the kitchen
Brian V.

the supervillain

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Lovely series Bob - lots of interesting subjects in the kitchen
Brian V.

agree! great shots,
I too, have spent many a hours in the kitchen with my macro lens, poking around for cool stuff

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the supervillain wrote:

agree! great shots,
I too, have spent many a hours in the kitchen with my macro lens, poking around for cool stuff

Thanks Brian and Craig for looking and replying.
Regards
Bob

DeVerm

Bob,

I like kitchen shots! Let me reply with my first one using my new 7D with 100mm macro; it's shot at f14 with 15s exposure time and ISO 800 in an almost dark kitchen ;-) It's clickable to SM where it's in full resolution. Now, guess what it is ;-)



ciao!
Nick.

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DeVerm wrote:

Bob,

I like kitchen shots! Let me reply with my first one using my new 7D with 100mm macro; it's shot at f14 with 15s exposure time and ISO 800 in an almost dark kitchen ;-) It's clickable to SM where it's in full resolution. Now, guess what it is ;-)



ciao!
Nick.

Hi Nick,
How are you enjoying the 7D. I am hoping to get mine soon. I have given your pic a lot of thought and I was wondering if they were Pistachio nuts? Although the colour is confusing me. I think I need help. I am sure someone will make a positive identification.
Regards
Bob

meandirene

Nice, looks like Anise to me.

DeVerm wrote:

Bob,

I like kitchen shots! Let me reply with my first one using my new 7D with 100mm macro; it's shot at f14 with 15s exposure time and ISO 800 in an almost dark kitchen ;-) It's clickable to SM where it's in full resolution. Now, guess what it is ;-)



ciao!
Nick.

DeVerm

meandirene wrote:

Nice, looks like Anise to me.

Indeed, the center thinghy is a star anise. What you see is one of those base-ball sized balls made out of all kinds of dried spices stuck on a foam core used for decoration and smell. As it's all dried stuff, it shrinks and turns this color. It's much smaller than Bob thought ;-)

Just left and a bit low of the anise you see the thingy that looks like a twig... look at the right end of it... it's a clove (1/2" long in real life). Last thing I recognize is sticking up from the bottom and that's a piece of cinnamon.

I used the EF 100mm f2.8L Macro IS USM lens for the first time for this shot. It is my favorite lens already. I also used it for some opportunity family portrait shots with great results. I recently made a very nice shot of one of our cats with my standard zoom lens and I can't get the thought out of my head of how it would have been with the macro lens on the camera...

ciao!
Nick.

DeVerm

canon400d wrote:

Hi Nick,
How are you enjoying the 7D. I am hoping to get mine soon.
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Bob

Hi Bob,

I like the 7D but I'm still on the road of discovery ;-) I'm finding out even the simplest settings every day. I just started reading that 7D book by Charlotte Lowrie and that's what is gonna save me. The camera has an all new metering and AF system and knowing other Canons doesn't help much. I think 90% of the complaints about the 7D AF that I read about are because the AF isn't understood. I spent hours with the camera on a table tripod in front of me and books all around and think I'm about ready to go out and try some options with moving subjects. We're in the jungle here in Panama so no lack of subjects... I'll take Charlotte's book on my Kindle for iPhone/iPod-touch with me because I'll need it!

But I really like the camera. I'm the type that needs more camera than I can handle because that will trigger me to improve myself.

ciao!
Nick.

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DeVerm wrote:

Hi Bob,

I like the 7D but I'm still on the road of discovery ;-) I'm finding out even the simplest settings every day. I just started reading that 7D book by Charlotte Lowrie and that's what is gonna save me. The camera has an all new metering and AF system and knowing other Canons doesn't help much. I think 90% of the complaints about the 7D AF that I read about are because the AF isn't understood. I spent hours with the camera on a table tripod in front of me and books all around and think I'm about ready to go out and try some options with moving subjects. We're in the jungle here in Panama so no lack of subjects... I'll take Charlotte's book on my Kindle for iPhone/iPod-touch with me because I'll need it!

But I really like the camera. I'm the type that needs more camera than I can handle because that will trigger me to improve myself.

ciao!
Nick.

Hi Nick,
I am sure you will achieve your aim with the 7D and I wish you every success. I have the 400D and the 40D but I only use the 40D. Is the AF on the 7D totally different to the 40D?
Regards
Bob

DeVerm

I've never even held a 40D so I can't tell you from experience but according to what I read it's a new generation of AF and metering. The two are completely integrated and it even got a new name: Intelligent Focus Color Luminosity metering (IFCL). I even think it's the first camera that does the metering in color instead of monochrome.

cheers,
Nick.

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DeVerm wrote:

I've never even held a 40D so I can't tell you from experience but according to what I read it's a new generation of AF and metering. The two are completely integrated and it even got a new name: Intelligent Focus Color Luminosity metering (IFCL). I even think it's the first camera that does the metering in color instead of monochrome.

cheers,
Nick.

Thanks for replying Nick. I must admit I am a wee bit confused so I will look into this further. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
Regards
Bob