Grapes Of The Earth 3

I am enjoying watching you Master these scenes - watching them get better. Something tells me there is more meaning here than is obvious to me ..... please simplify your still-lifes so Texans can more readily understand ........ )-;

I like the attention to the 'foreground' and background - it makes an excellent accent to the subject. Enhances but does not distract - perfect. Looks like something you would see on the farm - perhaps a neighbors table.

Is this full frame ... ? ... Describe the lighting 'set-up' - curious - looks like the main light is from the right with some softer, reflected light on the left. Window light ? ..... facing which direction ? ........... Soo many questions - not going to let you off with a simple 'how do you do' ........ (-;

Don?t put too much meaning in this because there is none .... almost. It all started out with the figs ... They just impressed me with their color, their shape and the drawings on the peel (?)....and then the grapes was added too because of the almost similar color. The deeper meaning is perhaps to be found in the title. "grapes of wrath"? .... no, the fruits was not fruits of wrath but gifts to us from the Earth just as wheat, corn and potatoes... Precious gifts for us to enjoy.... And what I wanted the photo to show. That's all Tex... very simple indeed.

Foreground, background and light and other subjects .... the light comes from 2 windows behind the subjects and the windows are facing west...taken late afternoon on a cloudy day or there would have been to much light but true the light confused me. If there only had been 1 window it would have been so much easier to achieve the wanted result. Background is a wooden veneer plate .... Old leftovers from a carpenter I think .... dark, Dirty and stained and except for the table ( stool) it is all found on the farm ( farmers would be laughing if they heard my country house being mentioned as a farm) and studio is the barn ... pretty cold now.

I do know there are some stains on the stool and it is on purpose I have not removed them ... I don't want it to become too "pretty" ... I like it this way.... The life and the world is stained too ... not perfect as we wish.

Almost full frame ... cropped a little on the right...background wasn't wide enough

The most interesting thing to work with here I think was the veeery long shutterspeed ( 30 sec) and the aperture (f 11)

I am pleased that you like it and think I?m doing progress but I?m only practicing and am not a master. It is fun to do this stuff but one of my greatest wishes is to take my little stool and place it in a corner of a real Master of do's studio and just sit there ... quiet ... And learn of the Master himself.

Answers and a little more to your questions, Ken ... ... methinks (-;

Thanks for your comments.

I'm also beginning to prefer the sepia version even it was the colors of the fruits that started this up. ( just call me Mrs. Sepia).... but as I often think BW, sepia and color gives the photos different meanings.

Huh very nice photo we have here I guess the full size with all the details is even more stronger

I like it very mutch

Congrats

pantelimonescu .... thaks so much ..And you are right: The original photo on my harddisk is much more detailed ... there is a loss of quality and details when it is uploaded to PN.

Val .... thanks for stopping by and thanks for your generousity. Am always very pleased when somebody tells me they like one of my photos.

Ken ... please stop pondering .... NOW. SOL