Tomatoes - summer work

One day at work I had some downtime and so I decided to use some of this to shoot some or my summer project for college. I wanted to create something that was different to the rest of my current portfolio and so decided to use the three primary colours. A blue colander, yellow background and red tomatoes. Grouped together I thought that they looked very striking.

Initial image



Although I was happy with the lighting I have slightly changed the composition of the shot by moving some of the tomatoes so that they sit better within the image. I have also sprayed the tomatoes with water to make them look really fresh. This is always a good technique when shooting fruits and vegetables. The water droplets also help to disperse light and act like small mirrors helping to enhance the lighting in the shot.

Step 2



I have then highly saturated the image and cropped closer to give it a more portrait frame.

Step 3



Finally I have cropped even closer into the image and take my f stop right down. This has made the colander appear blurred in the background. I have played around with both the Kelvin scale and tint to give a dramatic effect. I have also added a filter in Capture One software to create my final image.


Step 4