Still Life with Fruit

Still Life with Fruit, taken in a Farmers' Market during a power outage,

by candlelight, entirely handheld at ISO 500, full frame and

unmanipulated. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically or just wish to make an

observation, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John (I take many other genres than people!)

Thanks.

I took all three of today's posts of within an hour of each other.

I try to be versatile. The other two were 'street' and for me 'high caliber' scenes.

Each was on adjacent frames.

When I get 'hot' I get 'hot'.

The rest is just warm up.

Imagine this is just candlelight hand held at ISO500 with 18 mm lens.

Hand Held. No tripod. I think I own one.

Some where.

I keep buying them,but mislay them or leave them in my car or in America or they get stolen or (etc.)

I practiced for this five years ago when I took a photo in a restaurant by candlelight, and that was the last candlelight photo I took, ever.

But then I remember that many scenes in the movie 'Barry Lyndon' by Stanley Kubrick, were shot by candlelight, albeit with f1 lenses, not an f2.8 as here (stopped down to f 3.5?)

This is literally a one candlepower shot.

By definition.

Nice placement of the fruit.

I'm an opportunist.

This took me all of maybe six seconds to take.

Then move on. And I took maybe six different photos in that time.

Each was pretty good,with a couple of discards because of shakiness.

John (Crosley)

Notice I didn't crop 'tightly' either.

Everything's framed by black and the colors spill out of blackness.

Black is the frame of nature and night.

;~))

john

John (Crosley)