329: Juice, Pith & Skin

Settings: f/8, 1/180, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 68mm extension, 1/4 flash (bounced,) tripod.

328: Pepper Juice Purses

Not seaweed, but capsicum. The firm pockets of juice on the inner walls of this yellow pepper are very shiny, and are highlighted very effectively by lighting sideways on.

Settings: f/8, 1/4, ISO 100, 50mm Pentacon M42, 68mm extension, 1/4 flash, tripod. Colour and levels adjustment, slight sharpen and crop.

056: A Juicy Orange

(...Yeah, that's right.)
f/11, 1/180 sec, ISO 100, same lens setup as yesterday. The camera pointed nearly all the way down onto the half orange; the flash was angled down and a foil hood highlighted the fresh, juicy areas nicely.
I found it important to use quite a tight directional light here, otherwise using white reflectors would flatten the image - lessening the bright highlighted spots and overall contrast. The only thing I wish I had got better was a more even distribution of light from top to bottom. The top area looks quite bright, but further down it becomes slightly dull in comparison. I could always fiddle with the brightness contour, but I didn't want to. I merely got rid of some dust spots.

This orange was a tasty one.