Cleaning up my mother's backyard today...noticed these berries ~ took a few shots, this was really the only one that turned out semi-decent. :-)>

Beautiful!! Gorgeous color Punkie!

Berries for breakfast. Good shot. --Randy R

the lighting, the lighting!!!! hehe was this taken at sundown? so nice and yummy... hope you did'nt eat those berries, they are a bit toxic.

Wow! amazing colour & light, the angle on the leaves really sets the berries off a treat & makes it so much more.

It's more than semi-decent, they are lovely, but not to eat :-)

PunkClown is this the naturalist in you coming out? That's two shots without a tap a sink or some other household appliance in um. Like the composition think you should do something with the bright area in the bottom right. :o)

lol Bigg Jeff! I think you're right, the high key area (shot was taken straight upwards so thats the sky) needs burning in a bit (are these the right terms...high key and burning in? ~ trying out some knowledge gained from reading up) Thanks people, and Bonbon and Gun...thanks for the warning, I didn't try them! Oh...and yes it was taken towards the end of the day...

Berry nice, PC.

Brilliant colors, PC! They certainly look yummy... ignores warning hehehehe :-)

OK PC you did Ask And I hope I get this right, as I understand High key is when the entire shot is bright and with very little shadow detail I think I have some prints somewhere I will look them out for you. Burning in is a darkroom term and it means to give the print in certain areas more light so to bring out more detail from the neg. Now if you where printing you berries shot you would have to hold back the light from the print to stop it being bright. Bloody hell man this is far too much detail but hope it helps. I have a great little darkroom book, when I get home I will look it out for you it gives you all this sort of stuff. :o)

Hi PunkClown, been scratching around in my darkroom. God! I aint been up there for a long while. Anyway I found what I would call a high key print, You only got a bit of it here cus it was a 12 x 16 and would not fit on my flatbed, but I think you see the idea lots of high lights and very little shadow detail. And as promised at no extra charge I scanned the pages from my darkroom book on dodging and burning, hope that this helps. The book is great, a very basic step by step guide to all darkroom processes, if you want to try and get it, its called THE STEP-BY-STEP DARKROOM COURSE by David Kilpatrick and the ISBN number is 0-600-33264-0. Something about that darkroom for a split moment I was thinking negatives, printing paper, sloshing chemicals, 6 hours for one print, It was only for a split second mind you, think I will stick to my computer. :o)

here is the first page :)

and the second page. off up the town for a beer now. :o)

Thanks Bigg Jeff, that's great! It makes more sense now. I bet Alpha ropes you in to do some tutorials soon! Hope you enjoy your beer, and thanks again, I appreciate that. Cheers (from a bit wiser Cameron) :-)>