Dried Apricot

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

Simillar to the backlit onion image, this one is inspired by the tomato image. One of these days I'll get a tomato and do it properly.

Pentax K-x - 1/4 sec - f/? - ISO 800 - ~82mm

Lit using an Achiever 300DX flash held pointing at the (whitish) floor, to bounce up through a thin plastic chopping board (to diffuse light) to backlight the subject (which was about 40mm above the chopping board on a transparent plastic container). The flash was manually fired using the test button.

Used GIMP to duplicate the image as layers. Adjust the curve for the top layer to give high contrast (which turned it red) then desaturated the colours, and adjusted the brightness of red and yellow to match. This top layer was applied as Grain Merge (I'm learning, but I still don't know what that does), which accentuated the wrinkles, but preserved the colour, which was what I was trying to do.