The pre­vi­ous post inspired me to write about this pic­ture here. (Eggs => break­fast => “Your Morn­ing”, an assign­ment given pretty much exactly a year ago by the Digital Pho­to­graphy School Blog.)

It was shot, again, for an assig­ment. At the time I was still liv­ing in my dull stu­dent flat on cam­pus, and my morn­ings — thanks to an bor­ing elab­or­ate routine were rather identical. My break­fast con­sisted of toast, Nutella® and cheap orange marme­lade (thick cut!) plus a tea chosen at ran­dom from the set {pep­per­mint, rose hip, chamo­mile, fen­nel}.

To cap­ture my most excit­ing start-​of-​the-​day, I grabbed the Peleng 8mm fisheye, set the cam­era (my Alpha 700 at the time, with it’s APS-​C sized sensor) on a tri­pod and took a few timer-​delayed shots of me hold­ing the plate dir­ectly above it.

So I guess what makes this photo inter­est­ing (it actu­ally won the assign­ment!) is the com­bin­a­tion of unusual per­spect­ive (straight up) and the dis­tor­tion caused by the fisheye lens. Using a handy desat­ur­a­tion trick I made the col­ours a bit colder /​duller, with only a few col­our accents left (the trick con­sists of desat­ur­at­ing the pic­ture with the “Vibrancy” slider, not the “Sat­ur­a­tion” slider in the Cam­er­aRaw mod­ule /​Light­Room).

PS: I’m on a much health­ier diet now that I don’t live alone anymore ;-)