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Chocolate Mexicano
Chocolate Mexicano
Germaine


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Challenge: Recipe (Food) II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Location: Northern Southern California
Date: Jan 8, 2006
Aperture: F16
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/8
Galleries: Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jan 10, 2006

 Recipe for one cup of hot chocolate:

As you can see, the chocolate comes in a rount tablet. Cut the tablet into quarters. For one cup of chocolate, put about 1/4 cup of milk and 1/4 of a tablet into a small pan or in a microwavable container. Heat, but do not boil. Stir until the chocolate melts. Add rest of milk and heat to desired temperature. Beat until frothy.

The Mexicans have a special implement, a "molinillo" that they use for this purpose. It's made of wood, and many of them are beautifully carved. I used to have one, but it got lost in a move.

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 110
Avg (all users): 5.4689
Avg (commenters): 6.4000
Avg (participants): 4.9531
Avg (non-participants): 5.5969
Views since voting: 659
Views during voting: 438
Votes: 322
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/17/2006 11:15:26 AM
Lighting is good and the black backgound works exceptionally well for the light colored parts of the image. Some people may have difficulty recognizing the chocolate pieces at first and be confused. The image is not quite level and should be corected.
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 01/15/2006 10:47:44 AM
Killer tilt...otherwise, well done.
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 01/15/2006 05:35:03 AM
Wow, Wonderful picture, Very sharp and focused. The colors are great! Now I need to go to the store to get some. The only improvement I can see is to straighten the horizon just a tad. Nicely done.
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 01/14/2006 08:08:15 PM
this is the best hot chocolate!!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/14/2006 05:58:46 PM
Dramatic, bold image.....Very good.....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/13/2006 10:43:08 AM
The box looks great. the milk is less appealing. the chocolate looks pretty good, but sitting on the black suface hurts their look a bit
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/11/2006 06:13:09 PM
I'm a sucker for chocolate and milk. This I gave a 7. I'll try to justify why. Using the black back drop was a great idea, but I thought it back fired a bit when it came to showing the contrast in the chocolate itself. In fact, for me, the chocolate almost blended in with the back drop. The lighting is pretty good and so is the composition. I'm personally attracted to colours and contrast. So that's where you lost a lot of points (when the chocolate wasn't as presentable). Perhaps if you placed the chocolate on a small matt ceramic plate to bring out it's colour it would have worked better. Overall though, I'd say this is definitely an above average shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 01/11/2006 09:48:53 AM
Image seems tilted slightly to the left
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 01/11/2006 02:01:57 AM
nice!
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 01/10/2006 10:26:28 PM
To dark background if not one of best so you got 3


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