Squeezed lemon

A found subject, this lemon was used by my mother-in-law to wash her

hair, I shot it as it lies, moving it a couple of inches so I could compose it

with the wall. ASA400, no tripod, available light. Perhaps if I used film

instead of digital with some artificial lighting to the side and a tripod, the

details on the lemon would have more definition or maybe the detail on

the lemon is OK as it stands?

(P.S. How could I improve it if I had a large format camera? One of

these days I'm going to buy a large format camera, some lights, and

reshoot the little compositions that I find around the house everyday,

that are so easy to shoot with digital, but would probably look 100 times

better with large format).

Part of the series Traces of Life in the Home.

Jon,

You show a great eye here -- I love the exhausted lemon and the way the dingy grout and tiles echo its decay. However, I agree with you that the image quality could be better. It looks sort of washed-out and fuzzy. I'm not sure you need large format and artificial lights, though, maybe just some slow 35mm slide film and a tripod would do the trick.

Thanks for the tips.

I finally bought a real camera,a Nikon FM2.I was amazed by the sharpnessof the images coming out of its fast 50mm lenscompared to digital.The sleepy little provincialtown I live in (Chiangrai, Thailand) is having a photography workshop sponsored by Alliance Francais and taught by Nicolas Pascarel,who's done interesting color slide work in Cuba and Cambodia, so I'll probably be able to follow through on your suggestionsand reshoot my beloved lemon.