Yesterday afternoon the weather turned cool and rainy. I retreated to my studio (i.e. the basement) to make a couple of photographs that have been rattling around in my cranium for several weeks.
This year, we have had a bumper crop of apples and a decent crop of pears from the trees in our yard. I selected a few apples from the bushels on the breezeway and several pears from the stash on our kitchen counter.
The hardest part of making a still life for me is the styling. That is arranging the items to be photographed in an interesting manner. The lighting and the camerawork come naturally. Elegant arrangements do not.
Hey they didn’t come too bad – at least you didn’t try to mix them together. Oh, wait that’s apples and oranges!
You nailed the lighting on the apples!