Fresh Cristmas Oranges

[w.slayman]

Day after Christmas, on a tree in Old Downtown, Pensacola, FL. Canon A1, 35-105mm F3.5, Fuji Superia 400, 1/125 @ F3.5. Scanned, cropped and resized.

[Shebang]

Fuzzy navel?

I've looked a couple of times, and at first I didn't care for the soft focus -- but it's growing on me. The one thing that's not, though, is the bright left highlight. I do really like the orange/green combo.

I only see a semblance of this on the OJ carton. Ah, sunny Florida!

[GB1]

Hm. Has potential, and like Paula the softness has grown on me. But I think it has a bit too many issues to work as a pure photo, being too many bright distractions, and would also benefit from there being 3 oranges instead of 4 (don't ask me why .. Just looks better).

I took the liberty of trying a photo manipulation and removing that fourth orange. Here it be. Impressionist filter ...

[w.slayman]

Wow, the impressionist version while not my cup of tea, is really cool. And I agree that three is better than four, but the darned tree would not cooperate, the bunches were 4 and 5 or singles. If I can do a reshoot in the next few days maybe I can get some better light, not 11 AM, I know better but:blush2: The tree is in a fenced private yard in Old Down Town, so I can not pull one off the tree, or get on the other side of the tree.

Thanks for looking and your comments, I will try to do the reshoot and take your suggestions to heart.