Apple

[Mike Buckley]

I was planning to photograph a bottle of wine but I first had to run an errand at the grocery store. That's when I got side tracked. After looking at a couple dozen apples, I selected this one because I knew the relationship between the stem and the rest of the apple would be appealing to photograph.

Setup
The background is black velvet. A small continuous-light lamp fitted with a diffusion sock to reduce the brightness is on the right side at the level of the apple. A white reflector on the left side brightens that side of the fruit and stem. A flashlight set to its highest brightness at the right rear provides the bright tones on the rim of the apple and the right side of the stem. The flashlight is flagged to eliminate glare on the right side of the fruit. A polarizer eliminates a tiny spot of glare on the stem.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Dave A]

Nice image Mike. I like the crop and lighting.

Dave

[Wavelength]

Excellent! Superb!! What a great way to see a thing so differently!!! What a lighting!!!

[Rita]

Love this one Mike. Your lighting sets off the apple beautifully.

[mugge]

Mike, impeccable.
Cheers Ole

[ccphoto]

I sent Mike a PM with two conversions to this image as I sometimes just like to play with an image to see what might happen, especially since I would have no investment in the final outcome. Mike suggested I post this one for additional comment. He did like it.

[Werner]

The lighting works just fine.

[madcrow]

Making an apple look gorgeous, lighting awesome and background perfect.

[Wavelength]

It works well in Black & White conversion too

[bje07]

Superb lighting, I prefer color version (It's just my opinion)

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to everyone!

Now that I am seeing Chris's monochrome version the next morning, I still like it. However, Chris, notice the four bands of light in the background very close to the stem. That's perhaps something that happened when working with my small JPEG and then making your version even smaller that might not have happened if you had been using my full-size original.

[ccphoto]

I saw that Mike, and thought I'd cleared it up. Hmmmm

[Manfred M]

When I first saw the title, I thought you had switched from wine to apple cider, but I guess not.

What I like about the way you handled this shot is that you placed the areas that have a softer focus in shadow, and that hides this very well. You seem to be having a lot of fun with your macro lens.

I do prefer the original coloured version. Somehow I can't really imagine biting into a delicious B&W apple...

[NorthernFocus]

Love this one, Mike. I'm with Manfred on the color. Nice sidetrack.

[ccphoto]

still screwed up on this end

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Manfred and Dan!

I created a new thread to display another photo of the same apple.

[bnnrcn]

The apple looks very nice and fresh , the one in the other thread looks moody

Thank you to Manfred and Dan!

I created a new thread to display another photo of the same apple.

[Mike Buckley]

Thanks, Binnur! "Moody" is the way I also think of the other photo.