I like how you have set this up Dave, with implements in the background, and cooking text on the surface, and topped off with a scrummy looking pie in progress
Week 1 that looks like it was very yummy, I do like a bit of apple pie......... as for the image it's nicely composed and and the composition is great my only very little niggle is i would like a tiny bit more space at the bottom of the image, so that the bottom of the dish is not clipped.
Unearthed my old meerschaum pipe and an empty pack of what I used to smoke in it years ago. Troost is the Dutch word for comfort or consolation and legend had it that Van Rossem used to comfort prisoners in the stocks with a draw on his pipe.
I like that pipe of yours David ... a work of art with it's textures and patterns. Like the story behind the image too ... are you trying to edumocate us ha ha ?
Definitely on theme David and even more so after the explanation, I agree with Carl that pipe is a work of art, a beauty. I like the background I think the textured leather effect suits the subject, but I'd nip a bit off the top to take that wrinkle out.
Just done some rough reshoots of 'Comfort' with different backgrounds - think I'm tending towards something plain and lighter with a nice small surface texture rather than the dark grey fleece I used ( @susiejb - I'd better use some Comfort on my fleece if it looks like leather ).
Hair and root donated by daughter. Mounted in mineral oil, crossed polariser illumination (gives the colours), 40x 0.75NA (that's f/0.67 ish) Vickers objective and 1.6 second exposure
Comfort - I would never have guessed the background is a fleece!!!
I like the composition, and the plain background works better than the busier ones.
I would probably have tried to bring the exposure up a bit as you lose some detail in the shadows, and the textures in the pipe are lovely.
Hairy - Well, I doubt we'll get anything similar to this posted this week!
Reminds me of experiments with my microscope when I was a kid.
Amazing detail and colour David ... looks like the pointed foot of a ballerina. Even with the explanation, I haven't a clue how you managed that but I applaud the experimentation.
Thanks for the comments on Hairy folks. One problem, to pull the kit together to do that shot, the other half now knows I have at least 3 microscopes as well as my cameras.
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