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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Roasting in Black and White

Tom using the sample "trier" near the end of a coffee roast on this 60Kilo Roure.


 
Grabbing a sample for inspection.


60Kilo Roure, made in Barcelona, Spain; roasting in the drum, cooling in the tray.

The Dump.  Half-batch coming out of the 90Kilo Probat, made in Germany 1958.

I've been having a great time working indoors trying to capture the form and details of roasting at Counter Culture Coffee.  Typically, I try shooting with just ambient light, which is a challenge there as I've mentioned in previous posts, but I'm also exploring some fill flash (none of the photos above utilized flash).  Hopefully material from these sessions will go toward a series of pages on their website depicting the craft of coffee roasting and the characters who do it.  After documenting the "men of coffee" working their machines, I'll get down into the fine details of gadgetry, design and function of these mechanical beasts, then back out and get some "full-spectrum" landscape shots of the entire department floor including raw to roasted.   

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