Lensbaby Lunch

I took my Lensbaby Composer and camera with me to lunch at Red Robin yesterday.  The Lensbaby is a 50mm manual focus prime lens whose unique characteristic is a "sweet spot" of focus that you can move around the frame by bending the lens.  It takes some practice to use, but can produce some really unique looking images.

Red Robin Banzai Burger shot thru a Lensbaby Composer lens

Red Robin Banzai Burger shot thru a Lensbaby Composer lens

What's for dinner

Here's an image I created over the weekend.  The Mindful Eye, a photography Forum I read nearly everyday, has an ongoing member challenge of "Food and/or Drink" and a Community Assignment of "RGB Color."  My family and I came up with the idea of the picture below that I could use for both assignments.   What could be a more balanced meal than chocolate mm's from all the major food groups (or at least colors).

What's for dinner

To create this image, I obviously started with a bag of mm's -- actually two bags, that we separated into colors.  The table setting is on a piece of black fleece fabric and I capture the image with regular room lights.  To help remove some of the glare from the glass, I used a trick I learned in the book by Fil Hunter called Light, Science and Magic.  I placed a polarizer filter on my lens and captured two images, rotating the polarizer 90 degrees between captures.  I then combined the two images in Photoshop.

What do you think?  I look forward to your comments.