This challenge served as really good practice for some of the lighting techniques I've been reading up on. It was a bit of a chore for me because lighting isn't really a strong suit of mine, and I also had a vision of very soft light that I wanted to emulate--as if sun was shining on the fruit through a large window. I used a three light set-up, pointed towards the fruits from either side and at about the same height. I also used some white foam board as reflectors to fill in the light a bit. As much as I could without using art filters, I wanted this shot to have something of a painted feeling.
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I wish the pears were lit up a little bit more... but this lighting is very interesting! It looks like it's coming from behind and the side of the subject. Neat!
This photo looks like you took a subject that is normally a artists subject and made it real. It's the still life we were all initially taught and bought to life. Great photo.
This meets the challenge – it’s inanimate and arranged. It's basically a cropped bowl of fruit though. Maybe some diffuse lighting and/or desaturation might have helped with the stony textures. 6
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