Well, sometimes you are sitting there staring at your morning hot beverage and you notice something – it might be something that you’ve seen every morning, but for some reason never noticed before. This is what I noticed this past weekend – that the steam rising from my Kona coffee from my Mexican Mug from what is likely a Chinese built carafe made from metals from around the world was actually composed of small droplets that I could see. I don’t know if I was looking for it, but that is what I saw. It may have been because I was looking over some photography posts on smoke photography made me more sensitive; but before, I had always noticed a sheet of vapour (which is also droplets, but too small to see or for me to take notice), but this time I noticed the droplets.
I tried a couple of things to catch this, but being constrained by not taking too much time from the family, the time that the beverage would be giving off the vapor and the time I had the sun in the right place, I was working fast. So the first thing I tried was a deep DOF, but that didn’t show much. I think if I had more control, I might have been able to get that one to work, but then it might not have been as interesting because there would be more in focus and it might not “feel” right. So my next shot was wide open. This one got the steam, but not the particles – I would have had to up the shutter for that – but having got a shot that was “close enough” I went back to breakfast with the girls and everyone was happy.
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