The Fuse
Pear.
Having completely missed the boat for Macro Mondays I thought I would console myself with an image for the 7DWF group’s Crazy Tuesday theme. The weekly themes here are always fun and I find it a much more relaxed, friendly and less precious affair than Macro Mondays. This week the theme is Fruits in B&W.
So, a rummage through the fruit basket produced some interesting possibilities. Sadly I completely forgot about the pineapple in the fridge (memo to self: another time).
I took a pair of pear sets based around a pair of pears. I wanted to get a mountain effect and to emphasise the textures in the stalk and the delicate pattern in the fruit’s skin which I thought might add interest in black and white.
It’s a bright day here (and we British will soon be complaining about the heat) so creating some directional lighting was fairly easy with the selective shutting of curtains in the dining room studio...
I preferred this set for the diagonal flow in the composition. I stacked six images to get the depth of focus at this distance. The composition worked better flipped horizontally.
It looked like a bomb... or perhaps I play too many adventure games :)
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Crazy Tuesday :)
[Directional sunlight from a window; tripod; remote release; hand focused with VR off. Blue paper background (a mistake - orange would have been far better for isolating the background in the B&W conversion).
Stacked in Affinity Photo; tweaked Contrast, Shadows and Highlights and Vibrancy.
Sharpened with Clarity and Unsharp Mask filters. Horizontal flip to keep the viewer on the page :)
Converted in Silver Efex Pro 2018 starting with a dark and moody preset, emphasising the textures selectively in the stalk and getting a suitable brightness balance between the stalk the skin and the background. Selective darkening of the individual edges but no vignette. Cropped very slightly to get the pear surface to exit in the bottom right corner.]
The Fuse
Pear.
Having completely missed the boat for Macro Mondays I thought I would console myself with an image for the 7DWF group’s Crazy Tuesday theme. The weekly themes here are always fun and I find it a much more relaxed, friendly and less precious affair than Macro Mondays. This week the theme is Fruits in B&W.
So, a rummage through the fruit basket produced some interesting possibilities. Sadly I completely forgot about the pineapple in the fridge (memo to self: another time).
I took a pair of pear sets based around a pair of pears. I wanted to get a mountain effect and to emphasise the textures in the stalk and the delicate pattern in the fruit’s skin which I thought might add interest in black and white.
It’s a bright day here (and we British will soon be complaining about the heat) so creating some directional lighting was fairly easy with the selective shutting of curtains in the dining room studio...
I preferred this set for the diagonal flow in the composition. I stacked six images to get the depth of focus at this distance. The composition worked better flipped horizontally.
It looked like a bomb... or perhaps I play too many adventure games :)
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Crazy Tuesday :)
[Directional sunlight from a window; tripod; remote release; hand focused with VR off. Blue paper background (a mistake - orange would have been far better for isolating the background in the B&W conversion).
Stacked in Affinity Photo; tweaked Contrast, Shadows and Highlights and Vibrancy.
Sharpened with Clarity and Unsharp Mask filters. Horizontal flip to keep the viewer on the page :)
Converted in Silver Efex Pro 2018 starting with a dark and moody preset, emphasising the textures selectively in the stalk and getting a suitable brightness balance between the stalk the skin and the background. Selective darkening of the individual edges but no vignette. Cropped very slightly to get the pear surface to exit in the bottom right corner.]