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Refreshment
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After recently buying a 40mm prime lens, I visited the cafe-bar near the photo shop for lunch. It was too hard to resist using the new toy, hence this shot of one of my drinks, taken hand-held in quite dimly lit surroundings. Shot at f/5.6 (hopefully to get just enough depth of field for the bottle and glass), 1/25s, and ISO 3200; -1 stop of compensation applied to try to avoid burnt highlights; image enhanced in PSP X4. Hopefully, it looks appealing!

   
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#2

Interesting! Makes me want to pour some of the drink and enjoy it! Thanks for sharing info along with your photo! Enjoying it!

Barbara - Life is what you make of it!
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#3

A well exposed shot, MrB. Did you take any others with different settings?
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#4

Thank you Barbara and Dean - I was hoping that the drink would look appetising. Smile

Dean, I took a few, chimping and using the histogram to get the exposure looking reasonable, then a few with slightly different compositions, mainly to exclude distractions. This is the keeper, due to its gentle back-lighting - coming from an open serving hatch linking the bar with the kitchen.
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#5

Great Image. Looks like it was shot with a setup artificial light. I've couldn't have done it.

PhotoPlay Photography
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell
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#6

Thank you, PhotoPlay. Fortunately the ambient lighting was favourable to the shot - there was a wall light just above my table. The high ISO response of the Pentax K-5 to low light is also very good.
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