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"Tomatoes Sliced"

June Image

How I did it -

This month's entry is nothing spectacular, but I just want to illustrate how something very mundane can make a pleasing image. I often bring my camera up to the dining room of our country club when I finish my morning round of golf to show some people something I photographed that day on our golf course. One day I decided to shoot some of the offerings on our salad bar. What makes this photo, in my opinion, are the brilliant color and the one slice highlighted and placed in a position that carries one's eye through the image.


I used my Canon Rebel Xti and my new Tamron 28-300 VC lens on program, shot in RAW. I cropped to 11x14 format, adjusted the color to more vibrant in the RAW conversion and sharpened slightly.

 

Comments
Shelby Acton

All in seeing. Sometimes the simple things in life turn out to be our best images. Loved this image. Great curves, lines, and detail. I would not change a thing. Great job.
 
Dean Hellinger

Your subject is all over the news this week. From the fine image you would not suspect any problem with
the food The tomatoes in the picture look properly juicy, a very appetizing shot.

 
Eleanor Helper

Wow! You really have caught the essence of juicy ripe red tomatoes. As a photographic image I would suggest cloning out the partial slices and replacing with black as at the top. Maybe make top black area a tad narrower. But don’t change those luscious central slices—I want them for my lunch.

 
Donn Miertl

This still life brings out a lot of detail. That same shot with some off camera flash to get some across lighting would have added some depth to the subject. Are those little white spots on the front tomato slice salmonella?

 
Michael Rosenbaum

You certainly have an eye, Burt. Nice capture of the “everyday” as art. The color of the tomatoes is striking; I would prefer it if they were all sharp, though I suppose the softness of the distant ones gives perspective to the image.

 
Larry Beller

Your textures and colors are wonderful, so lifelike that it makes me hungry! The slice in right center on top of the pile is probably the one you use as a center of interest, but it doesn't really stand out; it is darker than the one to its left, which really catches my eye more. I suggest doing something like I did in the thumbnail: I blurred all except the preferred one, then darkened everything else slightly. Now it stands out.
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Burt Hesselson- Biography


I am 82 yrs. old, live in Tamarac, FL [near Ft. Lauderdale], been in photography 23 years, have six prints in permanent collections of museums and dozens in homes and offices around the world including one hanging in the office of the director of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem in Israel. I use Photoshop [for 5 yrs.] and just was the presenter for the Everglades Chapter of PSA with about 2 1/2 hours of how I use Photoshop CS in Windows XP. I just finished having a 38 print exhibit in the Coral Springs Museum of Art of images I shot in Peru in May 2004.