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4 comments:

Richard Krueger said...

Looks delicious. I'd,like it on a bed of ice.

Garet Munger said...

A tomato on the vine, but just a little too perfect. Either the photographer applied photoshop techniques to erase blemishes and enhance the red lushness, or the grower used pesticides and fungicides and fertilizer to make what looks like; just what a tomato on the vine should be.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Munger,

At 74, you are a year ahead of me in the 'check-out' line, so you can believe anything you want, but I grew (and took a picture of) that tomato 18 years ago—and I have no knowledge of agronomy beyond planting the seeds and eating the output. [Did GMO even exist then?]

Now, art and photography are another matter, and I have been practicing those since before I was a teenager. And I was immersed in computer imagery and manipulation years before Photoshop came on the scene (in 1988), though I can no longer recollect the names of its predecessors, and probably owned them all, then.

Looking back at the original digital file for that tomato picture, and comparing it to the final image—there is really very little difference. Certainly far less that you imagine.

Why do some people demand verisimilitude in photographs, when practically no one does in painting, for instance?

Garet Munger said...

Mr. Anonymous,

Sorry to have offended.