Black & White Orange
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 6:30AM 
Over the weekend, I kept walking past our fruit salad trees in our backyard. (For those that don't know, a fruit salad tree is one that has four or five different fruits on it.) In our case, that's two varieties of oranges, lemons and limes. Anyway, the oranges just had these little drops of water from the rain dripping off of them and looked very interesting. So, with my camera mounted to the tripod, I took the photo above. I took it at about 9pm and didn't add any artificial light to it. It was just a long shutter speed of about 30 seconds and a camera that is capable of taking awesome photographs in the dark. The photograph above was converted to B&W in Photoshop and than the orange color was added back in. Below is the original color version.
Creative, Fruit, Photography 
Reader Comments (3)
Martin, what was the source of light? Was it lighting from the house or just moonlight? I love the color in the full color version, almost a shame to lose it in the selective desat, but it looks great too. Did you do HDR on this?
Kurt, the light came from well inside the house, it was just made from 5 long exposures and then HDR'd. It was really dark out there but with the tripod and bulb mode and ISO 1250 this is what I got. I have to agree with you about the color vs B&W though, I thought I'd try it to see how the orange got brought out in it.
Nice!
Kurt