Weekend challenge 1st-2nd Nov:- Fruit
 

Thankyou to everyone who voted of me, please support the weekend challenge comp by entering your photo. It is good fun to beat the clock.

This Weekend challenge 1st-2nd Nov:- Fruit

Weekend Challenge, the challenge will be open to all members.
Topic: Fruit
The challenge will be run on (GMT) time, Midnight Friday (24:00 hours) through to Midnight Sunday.
The Weekend Challenge will close Monday noon for posting photos, to allow time for a 3 day poll.
A 3 day poll will be in place in the thread, for you to vote for the best photo for that weekends challenge, the voting will end on Thursday at noon.
The winner picks a challenge for the following weekend and starts a new thread.

1. One photo per member.
2. To be taken during that weekend. (I hope you will be honest here).
3. The photo must include exif data if possible with date and time.
4. This may seem harsh but no comments from any members to be included in the thread. This will make it harder if there is a lot of photos for the voters to go through.

Enjoy!

my effort called, Technically Fruit

pomi v kiwi

Fruity
 

Fruity........

My effort just to be different


~:Eight Points:~

Mcintosh apple

Lime light

fruits
 

enty for fruits compitition

Still Orange
 

Still Orange

The poll is now open to decide a winner for the weekend comp, Fruit.

Thank you to all who entered and good luck!

Congratulaions to Yelvertoft, for your stunning photo.

As I saw the thumbnails, almost every one of the entry looked very promising. It was tough for me come to a conclusion until i saw "lime light".... it was perfect in every sense and a very striking image.... did not look any further.

Congratulations Yelvertoft.

Can you please share the set up done for this shoot? I want to try it out....

regards
tifosi.

Thanks guys for your votes and encouragement. I'll have a think about the theme for this weekend.

Tifosi, I knew someone would ask me that sort of question. A verbal description, as I haven't got any citrus fruit left to repeat for a picture of the setup:

Take a rectangular glass flower vase and put it on a black cloth. Raise the black cloth on three sides to cut down on stray reflections and also give the dark outside edge to the bubbles.

Take one thin slice of lime, put the centre of the slice on the end of a cocktail stick. Slide the slice of lime into the vase so that it is pressed against the inside front (the side which does not have raised black cloth) face of the vase. Break stick to length to hold lime in place by wedging other end of stick against back inside face of vase. Place camera on tripod so that it is viewing the face of lime slice that's pressed against the glass.

Take flashgun, attach remote trigger cable, a simple single contact one in my case and set flash to manual power. Have flash pointing towards the camera, i.e. illuminating the back of the lime slice, and raise it up (on a stack of CD cases if that's what you happen to have to hand :rolleyes: ) so that the centre of the flash aligns with the centre of the lime slice and the centre of the camera view. Really make sure the camera is aligned perfectly squarely to the vase/slice.

Set camera to fully manual exposure, set trigger to max flash synch speed, set aperture to give good DoF at close range, f/14 in this case, small aperture will also create a degree of starburst effect to the catchlights. Set flash to a low power setting, I started at 1/64th max power initially and flash zoom to the widest angle it will go to, which is 18mm with the Metz AF58-1. Set camera focus to manual and ensure focus is on the face of the lime slice.

Fill vase with fresh tonic water, fire off a test shot, chimp, adjust flash power to compensate, repeat until you get it right, it doesn't take long. I ended up with 1/128th power after about 3 adjustments.

Top up vase with another generous splash of tonic to get some extra fresh bubbles, take final shot.

Hope this helps.

Duncan

fantastic shot Duncan.
It fitted the theme perfectly.
Thanks for the break down of how it was done :)
looking forward to this weekend
cheers
Joe

clever stuff Duncan, master of anything edible as usual, surprised it did not need any gin in the set-up description, maybe vase residue would have spoilt taste