I love the glossy shine cherries have. Once washed and dried, I pile them in a nice bowl and place them on the couch table for everyone to grab. Better than chocolates! Often the cherries disappear within a short time.
I just love when Soeren’s best girlfriend, Cosima is over for a visit. All I ever hear them is whispering and giggling. When I bring out my bowl of glossy cherries I can feel 2 pairs of gleaming eyes following me and the bowl. I hardly get a chance to put the bowl down before they grab a few handfuls and run off giggling.
Then I know what to expect – what you don’t? Sure you do – it’s time for the Weimar Cherry Pit Spitting competition! And it takes place every cherry season at our place! ;-)
The theme for Click this month is all about Bi-Color. Photographs portraying the motive in two colors. I decided for the bold red and a shade of white.
Details
- Camera: Nikon D70s
- Lens: Nikkor 18-70mm
- Tripod: Bilora 1211
- Focal Length: 56 mm
- Exposure Time: 1/100 sec
- Aperture: f/5.0
- Lighting: Natural light from right using white bounce from left.
- Photoshop touchups: I adjusted the color using the levels function, then using the curves tool corrected color balance by decreasing the amount of blue to fix the bluish color cast. Finally I added a new layer and setting it to “screen” mode, reducing the opacity to approx. 15%. bringing in natural light to the shot. Then adding a duplicate layer and setting it to “soft light”, which gently increases the contrast. Finally adjusting the hue/saturation to make the red pop.
Hugs!
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24 comments:
ha ha nice competition! those cherries look delicious!
I love cherries!!! Beautiful photo!
So pretty! They look like candies...
Cheers,
Rosa
Oh yes cherries are better than chocolate!!
I love cherries.. can have a bowl to myself!! I want to get some cherries now!!
Love the colors! & I am getting fond with the idea of the contest;-D we should really have one in our house, for the cherries bought & got home, hardly ever get time to go the fridge.
Meeta thanks for giving the details of the photo. Recently i was taking pictures of tomatoes & the oil on it & the natural light, reflected so bad that it lost all its charm;too harsh & blurry at the same time. i do not have a set up other than the window side;-( & not much an expert with photo shop.. but i will have to play around from now with learning to edit.
beautiful photos...
Awesome photo Meeta!!!
lovely... who wouldn't want to polish off a bowl of those!
Wow..what a red meeta...i loved the cherry click !!
Great click Meeta, good luck for the competition
Thats a very beautiful photo Meeta!
I recently tried taking some pics of cherry photos for my drawing....everytime i tried to take...my daughter came n ate one.....in seconds all the cerries were gone....hehehe did manage to take one or 2 pics.....have to draw them one of these days!
Beautiful entry for the event Meeta!
Meeta, we have cherry pit spitting competitions in our house...Agastya always wins :-)...didn't know there was actually something organised like that.
And of course, what a great picture :-)
They look wonderful. Perfect for the event!
They are so pretty!!
A beauty of a fine picture!!
nice click dear !!
ABSOLUTELY breathtaking.
Beautiful Photo
The cherries look amazing!!
All I wish is that one day I can take pictures as beautiful as yours :D
Gorgeous photo Meeta! I love how it looks like pop art!
The photo looks so pretty. Red and white make a superb combination for bi color theme.
Nice click!
thank you all for your feedback. pit spitting contest is always a lot of fun. i love the look on the kids' faces when i join in - oh yeah the neighbors look funny too!
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