This is how I eat my apple
June 2008

How I did it -

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Roger Urlwin	Golly Leona...You take your camera to breakfast? I better watch myself at Portland. A cute image that gets a smile every time. Given time I would have tried to do something else with this image but I'm stuck for ideas at the moment.
Diane Robertson	A fun picture, and I'm sure that you got a chuckle out of seeing this.  It is sort of like the piece of birthday cake with the icing chewed off.  I wish there was a little bit more to the story though.  If the napkin had been crunched up, ready to throw away, suggesting the eater was also done with the apple, I think the image would be stronger.
Nancy Brown	Another fun image and the apple looks like it's smiling.  I think you could improve it by cropping the R edge just enough to crop the edge of the napkin and more on the L to move the apple out of dead center.  Then clone the highlight off the apple, and select the table to darken it so it doesn't compete with the apple.
Joe Zaia	I suppose everyone has their own way and this is one of the most unique ways. Because of the position of the highlight, it appears to me that you used the in-camera flash. Perhaps this would have been the time to pump up the ISO a couple of notches and use another napkin to reflect some light on the apple. But, did you, did you not have the time; was it possible, was it not…?
Bob Yelle	Nice looking apple, Leona.  I might have been tempted to erase the logo on the napkin.  To me. It doesn’t add to the image.  Pretty clever, using the hotspot as a nose.  I might have cropped more closely to minimize the background and tried to remove the shadow surrounding the apple.
Claudia Bodmer

Member Bio

Member Bio - Leona Klerer  (leona@klerer.net) I am Leona Klerer, a senior living in Stamford, Ct., a city close to NYC.  I have  Bachelor and Masters degrees earned at the City College in NYC where I was born and brought up.  I am a retired teacher of Reading and Diagnostic Testing of elementary age children.  I have always been into the arts, including painting, ceramics, silver smithing, macrome, collaging and photography.  I have been photographing since my first child was born, about 45 years ago.     I have been using an SLR all these years, black and white, color prints and slides. For the past two years a I have been using a digital camera.  I really enjoy the flexibility of the digital and the great software that we can use with it.  I enjoy seeing immediately the image that I have taken.   I love to travel.  Before my husband's passing, we did major travels about three or four times a year.  We loved to hike and went to Switzerland several times.  The scenery there is spectacular.  We also visited most of the National Parks in the US, tent-camping in the camp grounds.   I have shown my sculptures many times in the past.  At present I show my photographs at various Art Societies and in my Camera Club during our Competition nights.