tea bodegon exercises (Qurator's art walk)

My post goes for @Qurator's Art Walk contest.

This week's prompt was: "Still life" -- look what I came up with.

My morning cup of darjeeling tea, Phalenopsis orchidea (stolen from my former job), croissant with curd cream and a sandalwood incense stick formed such a unique custom still life. In fact, I had to tinker with rearranging the props in places, and the tea in the cup cooled down long ago when I finally arrived to the last, minimalistic version that satisfied me the most.

Croissant with curd cream and a sandalwood incense stick formed such a still life. In fact, I had to tinker with rearranging the props in places, and the tea in the cup cooled down long ago when I finally arrived at the last, minimalistic version that satisfied me the most.

Круассан с творожным кремом и благовонная палочка образовали вот такой натюрморт. Нo пришлось повозиться, переставляя всё местами, чай в чашке давно остыл, когда я наконец пришел к минималистичному варианту, который меня удовлетворил больше всего.

This was #2

This was #3

This was #4 -- I focused on the croissant here. Swalloved the saliva and went on.

This is #5 -- I thought it was the last one and I am already there.

But then I suddenly swapped things and changed the incense holder to this wilted orchid leave. (My fave magic props I use from time to time -- it helps me to stop from going on and on, in search for the better variants, hehe).

And I got this variant: #6.

Variant #7 -- closer, closer! very hot!

Ok, #8. I should stop here, now I see that #6 was the peak, it will go as my entry to the contest.

location:	St.Petersburg, Russia	July 2021	natural lighting
camera/lens:	Canon 5D	Sigma 150mm	raw-conv
f 2.8	t 1/80	ISO 800	manual exp.

Well, since I was taking the tea pics end, I also took a separate photo of our ceramic tea jar (one of them) - I promised my friend Hive account@filinpaul a while ago to photograph the tea accessories we use in our family, but I procrastinate and in no hurry to fulfill my promise, heh ... simply we have too many of them! it will take a lot of work to photograph all of the set, so... This is how, one by one, from time to time, I gonna fulfill my promise.

Ну и в конце, чтоб два раза не вставать, я отдельно сфоткал наш жбан для хранения чая - я давно обещал моему другу Hive account@filinpaul сфотографировать наши чайные аксессуары, но прокрастинирую и не спешу выполнять... у нас их слишком много, чтобы сфотографировать их все, потребуется много работы. Вот так, потихоньку, надеюсь со временем всё и покажу.