This was an image I really had in my head to do for a while. I wanted a lot of texture and colour.
I did some major burning to get rid of the background, som sharpening and did a few layers, one in grayscale, one slightly oversaturated, and varied the opacity till I got the result I was looking for.
Natural light in the shade at the side of my house.
6.5XXX ??? I am hoping this will do well. I reckon people might pick on the fact that there's no focus on my thumb...anyhow, let's see how we go
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I should have used the full colour image and not the slight desaturation...D'Oh!
I reckon I might have been in the top 10...you live and learn!
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Really liked this and gave you an 8. I think the understated colour was actually a big factor in why I voted highly in the first place and would disagree with the "more saturation" movement. But, different strokes for different folks though, eh? :) Cheers!
NIce composition and arrangment. I'm giving you a 9 with this proviso. I have never thought of picking tomatoes as a muddy job and they don't normally have such nice droplets of water. From a strict realism standpoint, it seems off to me. Giving the benefit of the doubt, it could just be a proud husbandman showing off the fruits of his labor so... 9 works for me.
The photo is very well put toghether and from a technical standpoint it really leaves nothing behind. YOu should do well in the challenge and this is a very pleasant picture.
Nicely processed. the right hand on the palm either has some motion blur or is out of the DOF. That gets my eye just a bit. Otherwise, nice composition with the three tomatoes. 7
Nice tomato crop! My current work is assembling and wiring up a machine to wash, wax, and sort tomatoes at the rate of about 900 25lb boxes per hour. Most people don't know that you mostly get green stained hands from picking tomatoes, but this is a photo contest. Good concept, and excecuted well in the tech dept. I take away one little click for the back light showing behind the lower tomato, right side, and above the top tomato. If you could get that little border around the outside of the hands, like where the leaf on the right goes over the finger, it would really stand the whole subject out from the background.
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