Sweets For My Sweet

It is big business time for flowers, candies, chocolates and other romantic unmentionables.  That's right, Valentine's Day is back again.  Some people call it nothing but a day created by stores to build business, and they might be correct, but for a photographer, it also means all kinds of fun activities.  Two of the things that I really like photographing are flowers and candy.  Both are full of bright colours and interesting shapes.  Since the last few Valentine's Day posts have featured flowers, I figured we'd go the other route this year.  I actually found these candies last year at Biscuiterie Oscar.  It's a little candy shop on St. Hubert street in Montreal.  A little visit to Lozeau is never complete without a stop over at Oscar for something sweet.  I grabbed these up while picking up some frames for my photography exhibition last year and, being the kind of guy who likes to think ahead, thought they would make a nice little update for Valentine's Day.  I played around with a couple of different apertures, moved the candies around a little bit and let Mother Nature take care of the lighting.  The first photograph was taken at f/4, 1/125sec, ISO 100 at 59mm and the second photograph was taken at f/6.3, 1/80sec, ISO 100 at 64mm.  I liked the mixture of the whites and bright reds.  I also really liked how depending on how I positioned that red heart, it made the little bits of sugar stand out.  As is the case with most of my candy photographs, I hope you find them all to be as interesting as I found them to be tasty.