Day 64

I worked on dropping strawberries into milk for 2 hours this morning, and this is the best one. I just couldn't get it sharp like I see others do on Flickr . I don't know what the secret is. I used 2 flashes , one on each side and a white board in the background, don't really understand how it turned blue. I had to play around with the colors a lot because the strawberry was too dark and the water was blueish. Anyway I decided to post it today, rather than try something else , so as the year goes on I can revisit this and hopefully see a great improvement.
By the way it makes a HUGE mess, lots of clean up, and you have to clean off your lens after each drop. I went through a 1/2 gallon of milk.

Day 36

I started out trying to back light a blood orange slice, the results were disastrous. I just couldn't figure out how to do it without getting lens flare and the light was way too bright even at 1/132 power. Then decided to go in a different direction and try my hand at a still life, with the fruit I had. The cloth is a piece of material I bought in Guatemala last year. I tried adding different elements to the still life but nothing worked for me as well as this did. I just love symmetry and couldn't figure out how to add odd objects to this. So there you have it, my first fruit still life.