Whilst we wait for our next meeting... PHOTOS 1

[PeterH]

Just a glass dish, water and cooking oil. Background can be anything you like to bring some colour into it.
Here’s another

[Richard W]

Peter, i hope you are recycling your oils back into your chip pan

[Ian Stedman]

Peter,

I was going to ask how you got the varied colours, so thank you for the clarification. I love the colours in your photos, did you have to do much editing in Photoshop?

Are they macro shots or taken using normal lenses?

Alan,

You're not going round in circles, yet.

We had a woodpecker visit the other day I'm told. Unfortunately I was at work so could not photograph it.

Richard,

Seen any bees?
Congratulations on winning PDI of the year.

[PeterH]

Hi Ian
A little editing in Lightroom. Mainly exposure, contrast, clarity. I also experimented with Topaz to see what different effects I could get. I found it best to have the background some distance from the bottom of the glass dish to avoid it being too sharp. I achieved it by putting the glass dish on a glass coffee table and then I could put the background further back underneath the glass top of the table.
I tried different lenses and settled on a non macro lens - a 56mm (85 on full frame).

[Chris Sawyer]

Alan - All roads lead to your coffee machine.