Honey
After talking with Matt Armendariz about his food photography, I was inspired to shoot some of my own. I found some honey sticks in a drawer and brought them outside. With one hand, I held them up to the sun and with the other hand, took the shot with my 
Nikon, a wide angle lens fitted with +1, +2 and +4 diopters. A diopter is a glass filter you screw into the front of the lens in order to get focus really close to your subject. I really like the results. The sun makes a great backlight, highlights the bubbles and makes the honey sticks glow.
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The colors are brillant..great idea!
Comment by Mike on August 9th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
[...] Mike just wrote a little informational post about what depth of field is, which reminded me that I had a fun idea for an article. See, depth of field effects are a great way to highlight part of your photograph by naturally blurring parts of the image and leaving other parts in focus. More blur is called a “short depth of field†and less blur is usually called “long depth of field.†Stephanie has pulled off some great examples of this using her sweet Nikon. [...]
Comment by Shooting the Kids - » Point & Shoot Depth of Field - Part I on August 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pm