Heirlooms

[Mike Buckley]

Heirloom tomatoes. Did my thread title fool you?

I don't remember seeing tomatoes in so many colors, so I couldn't resist photographing them.

Setup
The tabletop is glossy black acrylic and the background is black velvet. A small continuous-light lamp above the scene on the right side is pointing downward. It is fitted with a sheet of diffusion material larger than the lamp hanging from the top of the lamp and forward of the bottom of it, which placed distance between the lamp and the diffusion material. That part of the setup creates larger direct reflections with softer edges on the tomatoes for a more pleasing effect than if the diffusion material had not been used or if there had been no space between the diffusion material and the lamp.

A flashlight on the left front side (not directly lighting the tomatoes) shining toward the rear and lighting a white reflector on the left is brightening that side of the scene. It is also lighting a white, handheld reflector behind and above the scene. That refletor is brightening the top of the greenish tomato in the upper center area to ensure separation between it and the background.

The droplets are 100% water sprayed with an atomizer.

[mugge]

Mike, beautifully done. Heirloom tomatoes!! I need a scotch
Cheers Ole

[rpcrowe]

Wonderful tomatoes and nice image of them. One of the advantages of heirloom tomatoes is that you can grow new plants from the seeds of these tomatoes. That is not always possible with non heirloom tomatoes...

BTW Ole: despite Scotch being a wonderful drink, I don't think it would go along very well with tomatoes

[Rita]

Love the image. The water drops make them look so fresh.

[bje07]

As usual great lighting, may be too much small water drops

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Rainforest]

That gentle reflection is a nice grounding to this well crafted image. They would look a bit tastier to me if they were slightly more ripe ;-)

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone!

They would look a bit tastier to me if they were slightly more ripe ;-)

Four of them are perfectly ripe. One is slightly overly ripe by about a day. One is slightly under ripe by about a day.

[Rainforest]

Thank you, everyone!



Four of them are perfectly ripe. One is slightly overly ripe by about a day. One is slightly under ripe by about a day.

Enjoy!