Ah, cooking. One of my favorite things. I love vegies and fish - oh, and PASTA!!!! This was an exercise in evening (Guinness induced) photography at the end of a very long day. I like the motion of the noodles and the steam. I am taking some media classes at the local community college to get my web chops up, and had to do an assignment in color balance. In case you are wondering, this photo was only sharpened a bit, and a bit of a vignette added to knock the corners off. The rest is all done in the camera. I love post-processing images, but like to keep things simple when I am just doing things for experiments. The funny thing is that the original concept for the photo was to just shoot the knobs of the stove, with only one knob in focus. I didn't even shoot that idea, I thought of putting the pot on the stove, just for a different angle on the stove, plus having a little more visual interest. Next, I thought, "boiling water in the pot would be nice". Next, I decided that there should be a little motion in the image, since it is one of my favorite overall things to shoot.
For you photo geeks who may be curious, this was lit almost completely by the hoodlight over the stove and the regular kitchen lights. There was a bit of fill from a silver disk to the camera left, but that was it. This was a 2 second exposure at f8.