Don't eat this tomato....

Paul Iddon

Because yes, it is actually a close up of a tomato!

It has been sat waiting for me in the food recycling box in the kitchen for two or three days. Well, actually the wife chucked it out because it was starting to go soft and soggy, and after a day in the humid enclosure of the recycling box it began to resemble the landscape of an alien planetoid...

I had to be really careful with the set up because the focusing would have to be critical. So I locked up the mirror and manually focused and also set the noise reduction function to on, in the settings of the 400D, using the Sigma 105 lens and three extension tubes. The shutter was released by infra-red remote control.

In LR I set the whitebalance using the eyedropper tool and then tweaked the exposure and the blacks and saturation levels, which I further fiddled with in CS3 afterwards, and there also used a high pass filter and Noiseware Pro to keep it all looking tidy, all on separate layers.

If only I had an MPE-65, I'd be in seventh heaven I think, but there is more chance of me plaiting fog than happening!


C&C as always encouraged.


Exif:

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Image Date: 2009:03:31 21:18:46
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 105.0mm
CCD Width: 4.58mm
Exposure Time: 2.500 s
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO equiv: 400
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)









Paul.

Drin

Oh wow, that's a unique capture. I'm fascinated by the bulbs on the strands of what I assume is some kind of fungus.

Awesome.

Paul Iddon

Drin wrote:

Oh wow, that's a unique capture. I'm fascinated by the bulbs on the strands of what I assume is some kind of fungus.

Awesome.

Thanks.

I'm sure someone will tell us in due course what the fungus type is


Paul.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely capture Paul - I like funguscapes
Brian V.

jax

Well done! Your efforts really paid off, i like it !

Paul Iddon

Thanks all

I'm quite pleased with this one, more so for it being quite different!

Paul.

Skippy

Paul Iddon wrote:

Because yes, it is actually a close up of a tomato!

It has been sat waiting for me in the food recycling box in the kitchen for two or three days. Well, actually the wife chucked it out because it was starting to go soft and soggy, and after a day in the humid enclosure of the recycling box it began to resemble the landscape of an alien planetoid...

I had to be really careful with the set up because the focusing would have to be critical. So I locked up the mirror and manually focused and also set the nose reduction function to on, in the settings of the 400D, using the Sigma 105 lens and three extension tubes. The shutter was released by infra-red remote control.

In LR I set the whitebalance using the eyedropper tool and then tweaked the exposure and the blacks and saturation levels, which I further fiddled with in CS3 afterwards, and there also used a high pass filter and Noiseware Pro to keep it all looking tidy, all on separate layers.

If only I had an MPE-65, I'd be in seventh heaven I think, but there is more chance of me plaiting fog than happening!

C&C as always encouraged.

Exif:

Camera Make: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Image Date: 2009:03:31 21:18:46
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 105.0mm
CCD Width: 4.58mm
Exposure Time: 2.500 s
Aperture: f/10.0
ISO equiv: 400
White Balance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)

Paul.

Geezz Paul this is really cool :ivar
One woman's trash is another photographers delight (so to speak)

So I should go buy a tomato and give this a go hu?

Excellent result my friend .... it's go that WOW factor ... Skippy
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Paul Iddon

Thanks Maxine.

I like it even more now!

SFGfx

I'm just amazed by the fact that there are blue spores mixed in there. Blue?!

I'm starting to like fungus shots, and this one is an outstanding example.

Awesome shot! thumb

Paul Iddon

SFGfx wrote:

I'm just amazed by the fact that there are blue spores mixed in there. Blue?!

I'm starting to like fungus shots, and this one is an outstanding example.

Awesome shot! thumb

Very kind of you to say so


Paul.

GOLDENORFE

like it! good detail
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Paul Iddon

Cheers Phil.

coscorrosa

That's awesome!

Paul Iddon

coscorrosa wrote:

That's awesome!

Thank you