AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY + DIGITAL JULY 2015 AUSTRALIANPHOTOGRAPHY.COM 23
PHOTOGRAPHER
Christa Drysdale
HOW I DID IT
Passing my kitchen bench and seeing the
garlic, I wondered how it would photograph.
So I placed it on my dining table with lots of
natural light from the windows on the right
side. I placed a sheet of black cardboard
behind it and rested my camera on the table
directly in front of the garlic. I used the self
timer at 2 seconds. I only took the shot once
as a trial, but I was pleased with the result
and I processed it in Lightroom with minimum
tweaking. I then decided to see what the effect
would be with HDR and this resulted in the
appearance of the textures on the cloves.DETAILS
Fujifilm X-S1 compact, 15mm focal length,
f/4.5 @ 1/60s, ISO 640, Corel Photoimpact
X3 for the HDR.PHOTOGRAPHER
Darryl Collett
HOW I DID IT
I had three criteria I wanted met with
this image. It had to be a simple shot
with contrasting colours and I wanted
to have leading lines pointing to the
main subject. I think I achieved this on
the first image, but I didn’t have the two
eggs in the egg holders and the image
was a little bare. Where to place the
unopened eggs? After several options
I decided upon this shot, which I think
gives a better composition and brings
some depth to the image. It was shot
with subdued soft lighting outdoors, on
a table top.DETAILS
Nikon D700, Tamron 180mm macro,
1/4s @ f/16, ISO 400, tripod. Raw
image through Photoshop CS6, slight
crop, small amount of saturation,
cloned some of the background and
then sharpened.