Day 47

I know this has been done before, but not by me. It was a lot harder than it looks. It took quite awhile to get the lighting, the bubbles and the focus just right. I followed Bryan Peterson's book "Understanding Close-up Photography" to get this shot. I had to play around in photoshop quite a bit to get the colors brighter. Hint... if you start to lose the bubbles add a little salt to the club soda.

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.