Pressed Garlic

[Mike Buckley]

A good friend recommended this garlic press because it's easy to clean and because it presses the garlic through the cloves' outer layers, eliminating the need to remove those layers before inserting the cloves in the press.

Setup
The tabletop is black presentation board and the background is black velvet. A small continuous-light lamp on the left side rakes light across the side of the garlic press to display the metal's texture and shape. That light also creates shadows in the garlic cloves to help define their shape. The same lamp brightens the tabletop just enough to provide separation between it and the background. (If you're not using a calibrated monitor and Firefox as the browser, that separation may not be apparent.) White reflectors on the right side and underneath the garlic press brighten the right end and underside surfaces of the press.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done, good look to the metal and texture of the garlic.

[Dave A]

Great lighting and detail. Very nice.

Dave

[bje07]

Gorgeous image Mike, excellent grain of the metal, superb shadows and lights giving the volume.

[Wavelength]

Great concept and its execution

[mugge]

Mike, the shadows on the garlic press does it for me.
Cheers Ole

[billtils]

Very nice composition and great job (as ever) on the lighting. Another example of how to make super photographs from the everyday.

[Rob Ekins]

Mike,
I think you lost a fair bit of detail in the hotter parts of the image. That may have been intentional or a consequence of getting those reflectors to show the engineering of the press?

Either way another cracker of a texture shot!

Can you expand on why you feel firefox is a better browser for viewing images.

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone!

I think you lost a fair bit of detail in the hotter parts of the image. That may have been intentional or a consequence of getting those reflectors to show the engineering of the press?

The loss of texture in the brighter areas has to do with the angle of light coming directly from the lamp, not the reflectors. If I had lit those areas to display the texture as well as in the other areas, more grey tones would have been displayed in those areas and the image then would have had less overall contrast and pop. All of that was just a stylistic choice.

Can you expand on why you feel firefox is a better browser for viewing images.

A few years ago it was conclusive in my mind that Firefox displayed very subtle detail that other browsers didn't display. I don't know if that's still true today because I haven't made any comparisons recently.

I do know that when displaying some subtleties in my images, especially subtlety in the dark tones, which I'm prone to using, some people explain that they don't see them. In each case, they either weren't using a calibrated monitor and/or weren't using Firefox.

Images look the same whether I'm viewing them using any of my three post-processing programs, cataloging software, or Firefox. So, if someone can't see what I'm seeing, it might be because they aren't using Firefox (and/or because their monitor isn't profiled and calibrated). When I upload an image that has important subtleties in the dark tones, I mention that I use a calibrated monitor and Firefox to hopefully minimize any confusion from the outset.

[george013]

Thank you, everyone!



The loss of texture in the brighter areas has to do with the angle of light coming directly from the lamp, not the reflectors. If I had lit those areas to display the texture as well as in the other areas, more grey tones would have been displayed in those areas and the image then would have had less overall contrast and pop. All of that was just a stylistic choice.



A few years ago it was conclusive in my mind that Firefox displayed very subtle detail that other browsers didn't display. I don't know if that's still true today because I haven't made any comparisons recently.

I do know that when displaying some subtleties in my images, especially subtlety in the dark tones, which I'm prone to using, some people explain that they don't see them. In each case, they either weren't using a calibrated monitor and/or weren't using Firefox.

Images look the same whether I'm viewing them using any of my three post-processing programs, cataloging software, or Firefox. So, if someone can't see what I'm seeing, it might be because they aren't using Firefox (and/or because their monitor isn't profiled and calibrated). When I upload an image that has important subtleties in the dark tones, I mention that I use a calibrated monitor and Firefox to hopefully minimize any confusion from the outset.

Concerning FF it's the color management. But you've to activate that your self.

Is that garlic yellow or not? I'm using FF.

George

[Mike Buckley]

The pressed garlic is yellow. The garlic still in the cloves has some yellow tones but to a lesser degree than the pressed garlic.

[bnnrcn]

Great light and texture Mike

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, Binnur!

Looking forward to eventually seeing your landscapes and seascapes regularly again; it has been too long!