Shouts out to the great ericlimon! 8-) ... I was originally trying to use both a lemon and a lime slice in the same shot, but it was just too much.
A slice of lime. On my brand new homemade 600W fluorescent light box. Red gel over part of the box.
Nikkor 50mm/1.8D with extension tube. Tripod. Self-timer. Manual focus. Manual exposure. Preset white balance. RAW processed with UFRaw and GIMP 2.1.7. Cropped. USM. Scaled. USM. Added border.
Yes, I know there are a couple of specs--imperfections--I was going to retake the shot once I noticed them, but I couldn't get another shot as nice. Except for the one ruined by a hair in the middle of the shot, which I didn't notice until I had it on my computer. :-(
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Self-critique, and including the biggest points made by commenters. I'm doing this to try to improve for future shots.
The Good: + color color color! complementary colors w/ high saturation
+ interesting and sharp detail on the peel
+ the darkness of the peel provides contrast to the bright areas, and separates the red and green areas
+ lighting, the lime looks like it's glowing, and good balance between background and foreground brightness
The Bad: - some red bled through the the lime
- border too bold
- little yellow highlights
absolutly beautiful, i wish I could have come up with this type of idea. Wonderful colors and positioning not to mention lighting. Best I've seen so far.
great color contrast, wonderfull definition, I really like this shot with only one small complaint. I dont like the tiney yellow dots on the bottom of the lime. One of my top picks. Keep up the great work.
I love this, the red showing through is perfect. Not crazy about the boarder (and I usually like boarders) I think it takes away from the pure red. Still very cool 9 with the boarder 10 without.
I guess this should have been a different tone of the red, doesn't quite go together, but i'll look at it again on a better calibrated monitor. White border is too bright imo.
I'm not keen on the border, but other than that it's a great macro. The red is a bit 'in your face' though, maybe a more subtle colour would have worked better?
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