366 Days of 2012, Day 83 - Worlds Most Important Food

The world's most important food and there is a good chance you have never seen it like this before.

To capture this image I placed a dessert spoon of rice into a flat-bottom glass and then sat the glass on top of my strobe light so that the light would come up though the rice. It took a bit of experimentation before I got the correct exposure, but once right the effect is quite interesting.

As you can see the rice has virtually been stripped of all its goodness and is literally just little pills of carbohydrate.


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 83 - Worlds Most Important Food'. 1/200 sec at 100mm f/22, ISO 400 + Strobe Backlit