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purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

Ok, everyone, I'm still having the same problem with the colors that don't pop as much as on my monitor. But hopefully like vclements said, it wouldn't result on flatter color on the print.

Hopefully progressing to you. Made these yesterday. Seems like I've been taking pictures of red subjects ;) Waiting for your response. Not fully isolated this time. On a white plate in front of white background, using natural light, reflectors, white balance set on cloudy.

purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

More tomatoes

purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

Tomatoes 3

digigandalf · Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 2582 Location: Twinsburg, OH

They look like winners. Makes me want to pluck one off the vine and take a bite.

kellyplz · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:56 am

They look really good to me as well!
I have a garden full of these and I can't wait for them to be ready! :)

purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

hhltdave5 · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:21 am

As I mentioned with the strawberry shot much better! Focus is very good, the moisture on them adds freshness and good specimens.

Now this is where the teacher in me comes out. The white balance still seems a bit off to me. They have that touch of yellow to them as seen in the plate.

The composition in the second shot I think could be better. The sharp cutoff on the right side takes away from the symmetry.

The background needs a bit of cleaning up around the plate.

Now you should start thinking about moving on to the next level. This is what I call building the shot. You start with the basic shot then build on it giving it a new look. Take a tomato, cut it in half, place it in front of the vine tomatoes and make the cut tomato the main part of the shot letting the others go OOF in the background. That is just one of the many different shots you can get from one source.

Keep up the good work!

stonefury · Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 47 Location: Japan

Is anyone else distracted by the plate? For me the third looks best for this reason.

vclements · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:00 am

I agree, white balance is definitely off.
Very yellow

purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

Ok, do all the pictures look yellow? I don't know why, but I don't see it here :( The last shot looks more yellow.

I'll try to fix the white balance, the yellow and post the fixed ones here.

stonefury · Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 47 Location: Japan

The stems look quite yellow to me in all 3.

purpleziye · Joined: 04 May 2009 Posts: 87

How about this?

vclements · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:54 am

Much better!!!

triceratops · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: The other Nevada

I'm bothered by the way you've left the shadow on the right side of the front tomato in image Tomatoes 3. Looks like you erased all but a part, following the contour of the tomato. This isn't natural. Either remove all of this part of the shadow or let it project out as it normally would. You're fighting the shadows and color cast generated by the plate. Tomatos are fine, but that plate just takes away from the image.

ajancso · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 394 Location: Brazil

I like them a lot...but I would get rid of the plate...It is not only distracting but also too small with tomatoes hanging out.