A Salad for Caesar
by magnetic9999

Comment:
Good colors, nice light. I like the moisture on the tomatos. The shot doesn't really say much to me emotionally, though. Maybe too much empty space? Or just not much connection to "Caesar"?

fruit or veggie???
by PaulinaRD

Comment:
Nice shot. The white to blackground adds a little extra feeling to the shot.

Green bean anyone ?
by David Ey

Comment:
Nice bird picture but it's little weak on challenge content.

Sun Kisses
by Shiiizzzam

Comment:
Oo.. nice job getting that drop to stretch out!

a lone nut
by SatelliteSpeck

Comment:
Are nuts a truit? Kind of an interesting shot, though.

A Long and 'Rinding' Road
by chrisab

Comment:
Okay, a couple of more notes. The 'road' was made with a little zesting tool that I bought Friday afternoon. Getting a decent road out of the lemons wasn't too hard - they have nice soft rinds. But carving the limes was a pain! It's impossible to get a smooth road with nice clean sides. If you look at the outtakes, especially the first concept shot, you can see some pretty horrible carving jobs.

This is one of the reasons why I selected the DOF that I did. I could have lit the lime better, and I could have gotten it more in focus, but doing that would have revealed other flaws. Also, my goal was to make the fruit pop out more in the front, and less in the back. I lit the blueberry really well with a large flash to the left and about fruit-level. This really lit up the blueberry, but also killed any shadows, which may be one reason some people thought I added the berry in later. I tried hard to reduce the glare on the lemon, but in the end it seemed to be a compromise between the berry brightness and the lemon glare.

Also, someone asked how I got the road to be so bright. The lime rind tends to be a brighter white then the lemon anyway. But to enhance the whole thing, I spread a little vegetable oil along the road with a q-tip.

A Long and 'Rinding' Road
by chrisab

Comment:
Thanks everyone for the comments, especially from KarenB who called it "wonderfully bizarre", which is exactly what I wanted this to be.

To answer the various questions.... there's nothing weird going on here. There's a lemon, a a lime, and a blueberry. The lime is kind of proped up on a tripod of toothpicks, and the blueberry is stuck on with another toothpick. The only PS changes are auto-levels and auto-contrast. Heck, I didn't even know how to crop to size correctly until Lisa and JMSetzler filled me on Sunday morning (thanks guys!)

I've put together a few outtakes with the timeline from concept to the final version. You can find them here:

//www.pbase.com/chrisab/outtakes

Okra, Okra
by Bukios

Comment:
In my opinion, this is the most underrated photo of the week. This got one of my 2 10s. I think it's original and well done - great texture, great shapes, good lighting, etc etc. Maybe people just don't know what okra is.

Okra, Okra
by Bukios

Comment:
Very nice. This is the best looking okra I've ever seen! Great job with the lighting from dark to light. Good detail on the veggie. 10 - chrisab

A Cup of Berries
by TerryGee

Comment:
Very interesting lighting, the way the cub is almost not there. I like the way you managed to keep the detail and the texture on the strawberries while whiting out the background. Well framed too, drawing your attention all the across the frame. Good job, 8, chrisab.