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@francesco: and now? what do you want to tell me?

Beautiful work!

Excellent work.

Fabulous, absolutely fabulous! May I ask how you did it? Was it extensively altered digitally?

Very cool!!!!!!!!!! Excellent lighting, composition and color.

incredible shot. Is this altered? it feels very real and is thought provoking and then makes me think "how did he do this?". i like it very much.

This is an excellent action picture and is unusual because of the razor sharp focus. I'd enjoy hearing more about how the image was created.

wow! what a great shot... really creative

Really good photo. Great color and sharpness.

Great shot Fabian. I score the dive 7, 7! Colors, detail, lighting, all excellent. Perhaps next you could do an apple, then a grapefruit, then a watermellon! Congrats on a fine POW.

super nice details, cool colors, and i like how the tamato's green leaves sorta look like a body that plunged into the pool backwards with their arms and legs spread out for balance.

Okay, so I could not come up with a good tomato expression... this is wonderful. I'd like to hear how it was done... it looks as if you have a window to the dunk tak and you are photographing from the outside. the clarity is super the saturation is just right. I'm going to leave now to make a salad. Bravo on a well deserved POTW.

This is an exemplary shot! Nothing to correct, nothing to change, nothing to eliminate, nothing to add, nothing to increase or decrease, nothing to crop, nothing else to say!

 

Fabulous, fantastic, fresh, fun, far out! A very good take on the old dunk the fruit idea!

 

I have a fish tank for saleany takers?

First, I have to say it's a wonderful picture.

 

Slightly OT - If this picture had been taken with conventional film, I bet it would have been a much harder time for the photographer.

 

This time, digital wins hands down.

Well, I don't think they get much better than this. The perfect moment of the drop was captured. The saturation is beautiful and the lighting is perfect, both on the subject and the surrounding water. Congrats Fabian. This POW is well deserved!

Amazing! What kills me is that this was shot with an S30. Now that's a challenge. I'd love to know the technical details. Manual focus to minimize shutter lag no doubt. Also S30 can't synch with external flash so I assume it was just shot in really bright light to get the shutter speed down. Also afaik no remote shutter release so I'm kind of imagining the photographer with a tomato in one hand and a finger of his other hand on the shutter button. Or maybe self timer and release the tomato at just the right time? It all sounds pretty challenging to me. An amazing result from what must have been a lot of trial and error.

Sorry, I feel like spoiling the party here. It's a very nice capture, timing and colors. Probably diffucult to get.

 

But it is as much over the top, soulless and as bold an attempt to appeal to the subconcious "WOW" center in the brain as the 10th boobjob of an aging adult-movie queen. This is the pic for the instant gratification generation, to the climax in a split second.

 

Not my cup of tea I'm afraid.

Actually the colors and patterns appealed to me! I would love to have an enlargement on my wall, perhaps near an aquarium . . . :-)

Nicely done!

I'm going to agree with Bernard(?) on his take of the photo. While a technical masterpiece. To me it does lacks a soul, it is a tomato falling into water. It seems more like an excersise in "look, what I can do." I'm sure it would sell wondefully in the world and I could see it graceing the walls of many a kitchen or cafe, and maybe that's the point. But that doesn't make it good, it only makes it sellable.

Yes, Fabian, pretty difficult to take. But "Effekthascherei", don't you think so?

I think it is more about the water than the tomato. And the cool colors of the water vs the red. Nice choice to crop it square.. putting the tomato on a "third". It's an excellent, very technical exercise, and not without humor, and is visually pleasing, offering the viewer some pleasant sensations. It's like a catchy pop tune that you can't get out of your head, and just want to go away. But it won't go away and that alone makes it a very successful example of product ad photography, which seems to be what a lot of the photographer's portfolio is about. I'm guessing it's doing just what was intended, so there's no sense comparing to some genre of "art" photo. Very good. Really shows off the capability of the Canon S30 too.

first let me say: thanks a lot! im very very proud of having a pow :-)

and here is the small story of this shot:

i've just earned a underwatercase for my canon powershot s30 and wanted to do some first shots with it. first i've filled up the washbasin and took some shot of the water and some stones throwen in the water. this was'nt really good. so the next day i've filled the tub with a lot more water! then thought about what to throw into it and after some minutes of searching the tomato was found :-)

after taking about 100 shots and a blue arm (cold water isnt good to tak e shots in), i took this one you see here! it was taken with the internal flash of my s30 and no other lightsource!(the bathroom was completly dark!) the shot was pre-focused to reduce the 'reaction-tim' of the camera.

ciao, fabian

Yeah well, a lot of (mostly) guys in here get it on with naked women. Fabian here gets his with fruit and vegetables. Everybody his or hers own fetish I guess. I think that Fabian would also make technically perfect pictures of boobs, legs, backs and all that other venus stuff and would have gotten his POW with that as well. But he got it with vegetables. Congratulations. To me it also is a soulless, humourless technically rather well done picture of a tomato falling into water. Doesn't make me hot or cold, but so do most pictures of technically perfect naked women. So who am I to judge? So to the elves question: well done, yes, but for what reason? If you don't have the fetish thing for cucumbers, peppers, carrots and stuff, what does Fabian want to tell us? I don't know. Sorry. Bye y'all, and have a nice day.

Still, very good execution. I am a simple man and judge pictures by their "crack-in-the-wall-covering" worthiness and this one certainly rates high!