If I'd had access to a serpent I'd probably have used it in the photo too.
Anyway, I asked my husband to buy me a few perfect apples for this assignment, and in the end I decided to use a beautifully round Cortland apple.
At least, I think it's a Cortland.
All I did to edit the shot was straighten it and deepen the contrast a touch.
I resisted the urge to saturate the colors. I wanted them to be bright, but I was afraid they'd look fake if I made them any more vivid.
The red of the apple pops against the green of the new growth on the trees - just as I hoped they would.
I have a small island in the yard where we have planted some shrubs and perennials. I took my apple there and balanced it on a mossy rock and used the leaves of our iris plant to accent it.
I love the texture of the rock, but I hate the glare on the apple. I only had a short time to take photos (while the kids took a nap) so I didn't have the time or means to prevent it, but it does bother me.
Cropped a little tighter, and with colors boosted slightly, I like this shot. I like the vertical lines of the leaves in contrast with the horizontal line of the rock.
If I could remove the glare I'd be very happy with this shot.
Finally, I decided to look at the variety of apples my husband brought for me.
I call it "Pick Your Poison."
I love the ones on the rock, to hell with the glare - beautiful!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Fuff. They are really lush and sensual. They also make me think about those more modern day objects of temptation, the ones you purchase from the Apple store...
ReplyDeleteI love the story of why Steve Jobs picked Apple as the name of his company. In case you are not aware of it, during WWII the Nazis relied on an encryption machine called the Enigma machine and another, more devilish code machine called the Lorenz.
The British assembled a top team of code-breakers in a stately home called Bletchley Park, who worked in absolute secrecy - mainly British and Polish, but later also Americans, who developed a machine called the Colossus. The code-breakers were a mixture of mathematicians, crossword fanatics, engineers and linguists (and one cyptologist who was recruited by accident because they thought he was a cryptologist, instead of a scientist who specialised in a particular form of algae.
They were led by the eccentric Alan Turing, who, for example, did not like anyone to use his tea mug, so used to lock it to a radiator with a 5 digit code lock, which took his juniors about 5 minutes to crack each day.
The work was so secret that people working in one part of the site did not know what others were doing, and the parents of a schoolfriend of mine did not discuss with each other their respective roles at Bletchley until the 1980s.
Their work saved many lives. However, the British were so concerned about the technology becoming known to the Germans, in case another war broke out, that after the War the machines and all the documentation relating to them were destroyed, which probably lost Britain a 10 year head start on the computing industry.
Turing was devastated. Later he was prosecuted for his homosexuality and forcibly treated with female hormones. In his distress he committed suicide, by eating a poisoned apple. The mode of his death was a tribute to the newest piece of technological advance - Disney's first full length animation, Snow White.
woah.
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