Cool Tomato

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Taken on March 13, 2010
This photo was HDR’d from 9 images, so no EXIF data.

I took this because of a challenge I read online regarding a “cool tomato photo.” In the original phrase, cool was regarding the photo rather than the tomato, so I decided to try my hand, though changing the sentence so the tomato was cool, rather than photo.

This is a type of photograph I want to spend more time doing. This photo itself needs some real work, mostly in the lighting department. I tried to hide the lack of lights by combining multiple photos at different exposures, but it didn’t help a whole lot. The tomatoes are still dark and everything is still dominated by the sun.

I do like trying to tell a sort of absurd story with the tomatoes. It’s unclear exactly what is happening here, but with the sun, sunglasses, and sliced tomato it appears that the sunglass wearing cool tomato is either a pervert or a murderer. In any case, it’s a not-boring photograph and taking studio shots gives me a lot more control and allows for more planning than street, animal, and found photography.