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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/26/2009
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Oh...!!!
Didn't think of that, but now that you say, Andre.... ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/24/2009
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Expensive, but practical macadamia nuts Nick. :) They don't roll off the bar.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/23/2009
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That's the way it looks to me too, Andre. And be sure, just in case you would go crazy, I would really defend you and say that the poor guy had really reasons for that. ;-) I mean of course, in case I wouldn't turn crazy before you do. ;-)
Now guess what was offered to me yesterday night, when I went to the usual pub with a friend of mine. Cubic macadamia nuts for my scotch! A novelty, wow! They really sit and cut cubes out of the poor nuts, and it is 4 CHF for some 10 of those designer things. "Don't they look great?", the guy asked. Well yes... add some pyramids and spheres... and I'll think that they put something very special in my scotch too. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/22/2009
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So it was watermelons then :) I guess I wasn't going crazy! It's a crazy, mixed up world when we have to now buy designer fruit.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/18/2009
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For heavens sake.... I really found those cubic watermelons on the web. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1390088.stm ) You pay half a fortune for getting one of them and having it perfectly fitting in the space between two shelves in the refrigerator.
Well... after some weighing of the advantages against the disadvantages ($83 for just a watermelon! ;-)) I must say, I'd rather go buy a "traditional" one! ;-)
$83 for... a watermelon! With $83 you can buy the whole plantage in Greece! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/28/2008
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Hi Nick,
I see what you mean about cubes not being practical for apples. Maybe it was watermelons. :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/25/2008
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You mean... cube????!!! Like a cubic... apple???!!! But... how can that be? One can cut an apple more or less to cubic shape, but to *grow* that on a tree? :-/ More surrealism on this than on Dali's works...
Whenever I think I saw the most peculiar thing to me, there will be another one even more peculiar! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
P.S.: BTW, that guy with the strange idea... did he thought that some people would really load a whole lorry with regularly placed cubic apples in order to fill all the available space? The apples will get rotten until they manage to do that. ;-)
P.P.S.: That's another advantage of the more or less spherical shape. You throw spheres into a container and they automatically get packed to (almost) cubic densest packing. Note as dense as the possibility of "cubic apples" but still very dense and... easy!
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/20/2008
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Hi Nick,
This conversation reminds me of an article I saw about someone trying to grow cube shaped fruit, for ease of stacking and more efficient use of space. :)
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/19/2008
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Thank you Marcio!
Come back and visit any time.
Andre
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Marcio Janousek
{K:32538} 12/16/2008
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Nice lights and grains Andre..good work.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/15/2008
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Hi Andre!
Thanks a lot for the info about the shot. So, you seem to remember the actual look of what you shot and try to preserve it as well as possible, may I assume? Must be a hard thing to do, I guess. But nonetheless also good, since this way you will be more and more capable of really burning on the image the actual look that made you try the shot.
Thanks a lot also for the infos about the apples. Well, I guess we came as far to consider an apple "normal" if it is... everything else than that which would grow by nature. I remember, when I was child, tomatoes were some kind of undefinable shapes, not spherical and not regular and not uniform in coloring... nothing like that. But a salad was a delight. Nowadays tomatoes have the perfect shape and color, and they are "photogenic" enough for filling pages and pages of cooking books. But when you cut them you don't have that aroma filling the kitchen anymore.
Hmmm.. at least some mutants are better than the clean products of our times, I guess. ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
P.S.: Thanks heavens the farmers around the city still grow tomatoes and not geometric-chromatic perfection. ;-)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 12/14/2008
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Hi Nick,
Your version is fine. It might even be closer to what originally came from the camera. It was a dull overcast day, and I was probably influenced by that when I desaturated the image slightly. I don't think your version is better or worse, just different. One thing your version does is make the apple "pop" from the image more than mine does. I only described the apples as mutant because they all seemed to grow kind of imperfect, unlike the ones we tend to buy in the supermakets. I think the un-natural "perfect" ones might be more mutant. :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 12/11/2008
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Good radiating red in front of the very well softened background, Andre. It enhances the apple both by color contrast and also focus difference and this provides a good focal point to immediately turn to, when I look at it. The background does a very goodjob for providing the canvas on which the main object can best develop its own character.
What about a slightly more "lighty" appearance of the apple? I dodged it a bit and I saturated slightly the colors of it (attachment). Is that already in the typical "Disneyland" that we often talked about?
Anyway, the more isolated fruits on trees that already lost their leaves are very photogenic. The whole image gets more "minimalistic" but also more "classical" in the sense of clearer and fewer lines.
Cheers!
Nick
P.S.: Why are those apples "mutants"? Did they undergo any mutations?
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/19/2008
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Thanks Teresa,
Glad you like it!
Andre
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Teresa Ferraris
{K:16126} 11/19/2008
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Excellent!
teresa
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/12/2008
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Thanks Kes,
A little mutant anyway :) There were a few other trees in the area, all un-attended. So the apples on them were a bit wierd to say the least.
I think I'll stick to photographing them, rather than eating them. I might put together a montage of "Rotton Apples"
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/12/2008
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Thanks very much Alicia!
Andre
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![Nelson Moore [Kes] -](http://images.imageopolis.com/images/5/7/8/7/5787/1481659-micro.jpg)
Nelson Moore [Kes] -
{K:20241} 11/12/2008
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Hi Andre, great piece here. I like the framing with the out of focus background branches. Mutant, eh? How did it taste?
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 11/12/2008
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Maravilloso y tentador fruto!
Una delicia esos colores contrastados con el fondo neutro!
Felicitaciones por la captura!!!
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/11/2008
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Thanks Ken,
It's just a little past it's prime, but it's a survivor!
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/11/2008
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Hi Andrzej,
I never really thought about it before. I suppose there are quite a few paintings and murals around that show the colour. I bet there are both colours in the old paintings.
I liked the way the single apple kind of pops out of the background in this one too. Also, I got lucky with the background colour matching quite well.
Thanks again.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/11/2008
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Thanks Rina,
I agree about the sharpness. The original appears a little better, but not too much different. Sometimes I think I lose some sharpness if I resize an odd size crop. Someone much more technical than I am tried to explain what happens to the pixels to me when we resize. Complicated stuff :)
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/11/2008
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Thanks very much Ray!
Funny isn't it... I walked about 3k on an out of the way trail to find an apple tree with two apples left on it. A few shots get taken and here it is being seen all over the world. A few seconds of fame for a single apple that is most likely laying on the ground right now.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/11/2008
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Thank you Malules,
I'm glad you like it!
Andre
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Ken Phenicie Jr.
{K:6273} 11/11/2008
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Beautiful shot of an aging apple, less tempting for sure, nicely done.
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Andrzej Pradzynski
{K:22541} 11/11/2008
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Andre, do you know if Eden original sin was about red or green apple, I'm not an expert but I would think it was green. Here the apple nicely stands up from the background. Great image, well seen.
Cheers, NJ
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Caterina Berimballi
{K:27299} 11/10/2008
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Once again, the colours are smooth and very appealing, and the bokeh provides added interest. Nice study in texture too, but could be a bit sharper I think.
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stingRay pt.4 .
{K:250401} 11/10/2008
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Excellent details in this sad looking apple my friend. The tones look wonderful and the dof is superb. I love the balance to this shot and it made a great impact when I brought on screen. Well done to you Andre. All the best.....Ray
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Malules Fernandez
{K:54810} 11/10/2008
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Excellent dear Andre!
I love the colors, specially in the background.
best regards,
Malules
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/10/2008
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Thanks Dave,
Better days for sure. I think there were only two left on the whole tree.
Andre
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 11/10/2008
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Nice closeup, Andre. It looks like this apple has seen better days, but your detail is very good!
Dave.
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/10/2008
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Thanks for the visit and comment Subhranil.
I'm glad you like it! I'm happy with this one. The title seems to work pretty well.
Andre
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Subhranil Das
{K:6869} 11/10/2008
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wonderful colours...a perfect DOF...an a thoughful title...loved it.
Regards,Subhranil.
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 11/10/2008
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Thanks very much Wanderson,
I thank you for the visit and the comment! Come back and visit any time.
Andre
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Wanderson Rezende
{K:1157} 11/10/2008
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Hello Andre
I must say I love your picture. The theme, colors... very interesting!
Congrats!
Wanderson
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