In keeping with the theme of this week, here we have a photo of candy corn. Yep. One of my newest favorite photographers in Frances Civello, a fellow photographer based in Hershey, PA. As you might guess, she take lots of photos of candy and chocolate, since she lives in the town where sweetness was invented. We have featured her work before and everyone here loves her sense of composition.
Speaking of composition, Frances does a great job in this photo centering the subject. Note that this photo does not follow the rule of thirds, to which I have made previous reference. However, the perfect centering makes it an appealing and interesting photo to behold. The lines are all regular and offer a defined structure, wherein the individual kernels of candy corn, plucked fresh from the candy cob, arranged in a natural, yet somewhat chaotic manner, reside.
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What I like about this photo are the bright primary and secondary colors of the gum against the stark white background. You can practically see the fun emanating from the gumballs!
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My friend Abby is a great photographer partly because she has a great eye for composition. Also, she tries new things all the time, and most of all because she take lots and lots of pictures and doesn’t seem to feel inhibited when pulling her camera out in public. Lots of people are inhibited and their work suffers from the lack of practice.
This photo is a great example of bokeh, a Japanese term referring to the “aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.” Yeah, the Wikipedia helped me out with that one. This differs from the simple depth-of-field example I used last week because bokeh refers specifically to the out-of-focus area. Abby’s photo below uses a shallow depth of field to achieve bokeh in both the foreground and background of the in-focus area:
Another, more exaggerated example of bokeh in action is this photo below by locksmith in aylesbury, which has no area in focus at all. However, these are still identifiable as M&Ms, or at least believable as such. The main subject of the photo is clear, even if significantly out of focus:
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Photo Wednesday is back on track, no longer forgotten and made up for on Thursdays. After that hearty praise Susan gave me, too. Oy.
Flickr user princess_of_llyr has some great candy photos but this one really captured my attention. The translucent gummi bears convey the idea of deliciousness and their grid formation, a rather rigid alignment, is a stark contrast against the fun of the candy and the bright colors. Great composition, Sera! Oh, did I mention that the photographer is the very same Sera who runs The Candy Enthusiast? We are definitely in good company here!
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Okay, I know we missed Photo Wednesday. I had to leave early yesterday so did not have a chance to do it. This week’s photo is specifically for our loyal reader Nighthawk, who is a confirmed nut about Dots. Sure enough, when he reads this post today, sitting in his Troy, NY office, he will lose all productivity and have to leave work early, as I did yesterday. It’s only fair that we all conform to the law of conservation of productivity from time to time.
Nighthawk, go on down to the Quick Sack and load up on these. Tell your boss that Uncle Carl said it was all right to take the afternoon off.
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Fellow foodie Michele Humes added this photo to our Flickr pool and I think it is a wonderful display of colors – a visual enticement of taste bud excitement. Thanks, Michele, for sharing this great photo with us.
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Usually when I think of sweets popular in other countries I think I will find something different. Even Canada has some treats we can’t find too easily here. However, this photo of treats, taken by a Flickr user in São Paolo, shows a variety of candies we enjoy here in the States. I like this photo because of the variety of colors but also because of the random arrangement of items. This can only come one of two ways – either by painstaking styling or by simply throwing everything in a pile, which is the look the stylist wants anyway.
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