They look delicious in an alien way :-)

Yeah, awesome work!

Looks right even on my monitor. You are really getting the lighting of these shapes down perfectly. Wasn't it Edward Weston who photographed the peppers?

fabulous photo. more a painting then a photo actually. wonderful, perfect.

The exposure seems perfect to me Michelle. Great photo.
How do you do the duo-toning? Is that a regular feature of
photoshop, or do you have to go through several steps to
do it?

I don't know which program you are using but in Photoshop duo-tones is built into the program. PaintShopPro doesn't have a duotone option built in, you have to convert the image to greyscale and then colorize.....at least that's what it says in the manuel. In Photoshop I always do my normal routine things first, adjust levels or curves, unsharpen mask, and then in the channel mixer convert my image to b&w. Then I convert the image to greyscale and the duo-tone option is then available, where you can set up your two color curves. There are alot of presets in there and I usually just fiddle around until I'm happy with it. No matter which program you're using you should be able to get that duotone color by doing what I said before greyscale and colorize by fiddling with the hue/saturation option.

Thanks Michelle, for the beautiful image of the fruit, those pears look almost bronzed in this photo. Thanks also for the mini-tutorial! (I've been too lazy to look into how to do the duo-tone thing in photoshop, I usually do what you said in the last paragraph, but now I'll try it) :-)>

This is beautiful Michelle, great form & texture, looks like a sculpture.

Beautiful shot, looks almost like skin. .n

Lovely tone, you've picked the Duo beautifully - really does seem to have a metallic sparkle. (",)