DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register) 
 
Challenge Entries
Portfolio Images
exotic
exotic
primabarbara


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Still Life with Fruit II (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Date: Apr 30, 2022
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2022

[May. 9th, 2022 03:49:30 AM]

edit:

I'm quite lazy at providing notes these days. But since this picture might end up in the Top Ten (currently at 6.8) here is an explanation:

There is another lovely picture of exotiv fruits in the challenge - this is about what I planned but couldn't accomplish.

I wanted to have a big banana leaf and some starfruit in the picture but the local supermarket and flower shop didn't have any. So I bought the Strelizia and all the other fruit.
The setup was a bit tricky - I used a flexible knitting needle with a little disc at the end to thread the mango and papaya and attached it to a hook at the ceiling. The fruits were so heavy I had to hurry to get the rest of the fruits in place! The grapefruit and the kiwi were pinned with a kebab skewer into the pineapple.
I took a bunch of pictures and downloaded it to my pc. I wasn't impressed with the results - the mango and papaya were hanging too high - I wanted them to look like they were balancing on the knife. But the knitting needle was just too short and the table wasn't high enough... I hoped to take another round of shots afterwards but in the meantime the knitting needle let go and mango and papya were smashed.
So this was unavoidably the final result. I just had to clone out the transparent knitting rod and the skewer.

Statistics
Place: 7 out of 20
Avg (all users): 6.3235
Avg (participants): 6.4545
Avg (non-participants): 6.2609
Views since voting: 283
Views during voting: 82
Votes: 34
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

Please log in or register to add your comments!

AuthorThread
 05/13/2022 08:04:08 PM
This is beautifully done, Barbara. Thank you for explaining how you did this. You were very creative and ended up with an exciting entry. 9 from me.
 05/13/2022 07:24:55 AM
Wow, you did great work on this image. Thank you for the explanation, I would never have imagined how you did this other than PS.
Very creative and a very nice work of art.
 05/13/2022 01:49:35 AM
What a creative idea… and really well done! Thanks for sharing how you did it!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/13/2022 12:20:24 AM
Kudos for the effort and result. It could make a very good poster if you could eliminate the texture of the table
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/12/2022 10:02:32 PM
Can't imagine how you achieved this. Very clever. My pick for the red.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/08/2022 09:18:01 PM
So much fun! This is an image that everyone will want to know how it was done.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2022 10:50:37 AM
I love images like this with things falling. I want to learn how to do this.

To me, this isn't a good still life since you're purposefully adding "motion" to it, but... I love it and I'm not voting. :D
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 05/06/2022 08:15:31 AM
very creative set up
  Photographer found comment helpful.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Prints! - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/25/2024 01:14:36 PM EDT.