In these lockdown days, many of us are looking for ideas around our home to have some fun with our camera, and I have seen lots of impressive work posted on PhotoBlog. I am not a very creative person, but once in a while, I do stumble upon an opportunity to goof around with stuff to create some fun images.
This afternoon, as I was finishing my routine fruit break, I just felt the urge to do something with what remained of the fruit I had eaten before I threw it into the trashcan. The following images are the fruit of my goofy inspiration, all taken with a macro extension tube mounted on my Sony α6000.
See if you can identify the fruit before you read the captions below. Consider yourself a genius (or at least an expert) if you succeed. 😊
When I showed this to my daughter, she freaked out, thinking it's some kind of tiny swarming insects. Well, that's just the skin of the bottom half of a kiwi fruit. After I had eaten the flesh and scraped the skin clean with a teaspoon, I held the semi-translucent skin against a lamp and shot this.
This photo should give you a better idea of what I was doing with the kiwi skin. This species of kiwi has a rather smooth skin instead of a hairy skin and the skin is quite thin.
"The Eye" -- created with my index finger and thumb over the backlit kiwi skin :)
OK, that's enough goofiness for one post. I'll most likely return to my more serious Lisbon series in my next post.
Very cool and creative. A good idea
Thanks, Peter. I'm glad you like the idea.