Let’s give this the alternate caption “Food Under Flash”, shall we? Our first fig of the season, photographed from a top-down position on a white plate. I added the black background in the post-processing stage. With the exceedingly arid and warm weather of the past three months, late-summer fruits like this fist-sized fig and blackberries are maturing much earlier than usual. Photographed freshly picked off the tree on July 21 in the summer with bounce flash. Homegrown goodness!
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Sure don’t have these figs here in Northern Virginia!
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not with all the wet weather you’ve been having! 🙂 we certainly wouldn’t be getting any so soon if it weren’t for the drought Vancouver has been going through!!
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My son lives in Anacortes Washington, I wonder if they have those figs there?
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figs would probably grow well in Anacortes. this one–which was picked up from one of our local nurseries–is grown in a big planter. I’m pretty sure they are not Turkey Brown Chocolate Figs, since the outer skin didn’t turn brown upon ripening. I’ll have to look into what they are and get back to you! 🙂
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I’ll have to let my son know… he grows herbs in his garden……… and hops for his beer brewing! So ,,, why not figs!?
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what a coincidence! we grow hops too … the regular and the golden hop varieties. they grow like weeds!!
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Sally,
our figs are of the Desert King variety, but Brown Turkey Figs are also sold here.
http://planetfig.com/cultivars/fcveng8588.html
Cheers!
Hui
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Beautiful fruit – how’d it taste? 🙂
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amazing! I never had fresh figs until three years ago. we have several more ready to drop now! 🙂
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I remember having fresh figs in Italy and Greece, so delicious – like candy!
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you got that right! it was a melt-in-my-mouth experience! 🙂
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Looks amazing! love the photo. We had our first fig a couple of says ago (in England) but I didn’t stop to photograph it, we just ate it! my sons called the sharing of the first fig the ‘First Fig Festival’ it was yummy but it looks like we’ll have to wait a while for the rest to ripen.
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thank you! we had four figs two years ago and none last year (that was the second year). this year, we are going to get at least 30-40! I may have to make fig jam from the looks of things! 😀
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Really like the colors.
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thank you, Kimberly! didn’t know that figs looked like that on the inside until I had my first one three years ago. The red seeds remind me of pomegranate seeds!
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Ooo, I love figs. None here in NC, though!
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I’m seeing plenty of fig fans! 😀
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Delicious.
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thank you, Jacqueline, it was 🙂
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Great shot, like the colour background change too! And I just happen to love figs 😄
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thank you, Julie! I’m finding quite a few fig fans here. 🙂
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It is beautiful this fig, it is sun-drenched.
Splendid picture.
Great evening to you.
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thank you, Hervé!
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Great shot! I confess to not really liking the taste of figs, but maybe I just never really gave them a chance…. Who knew they were so beautiful inside? Thanks for posting this.
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you’re welcome! I certainly didn’t know they had such “inner beauty” … having had the preserved/candied figs for so long! 😀
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😉
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Interesting shot. I haven’t had figs for years…it’s time to buy some more.
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after realizing how hard they are to grow and their short “shelf life”, I understand why they are so darned expensive! 🙂
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Figs are amazing, I’m eatng loads at the moment, full season here! I always wonder: how do you obtain the black background on photos like these?
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wow! must be nice. we had a few about a month and a half earlier than were supposed to ripen (and the squirrels made off the remainder 😦 ). we’re now waiting for the “late bloomers” to ripen — they’re not as big, unfortunately.
to achieve the black background and achieve a tight focus, I shoot with flash, use ISO 400, a fast shutter speed (1/1000 or higher) and a high f-number (f/11 – f/16). what background I can’t get completely blacked out at the photo stage, I take into Photoshop and digitally remove in post processing.
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I hope you get some good ones 😉
Thx for the photo info, I will def give it a try, I think it looks very cool. I don’t use photoshop but maybe I can manage without!
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there are a number of free alternatives to Photoshop, but I don’t know which ones let you do selective adjustments to the colours via clipping paths (I imagine a few must, as this is a fairly basic image editing feature).
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/the-best-photoshop-alternatives-that-are-totally-free-5974500
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Well, I do have gimp (thx for the link!) but I don’t use it much. I just don’t like to spend too much time post-processing if I can avoid it 🙂
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Understood. 🙂 As I shoot in RAW, I have to post process to some degree.
You wouldn’t believe how many bluish casts I’ve had to remove from my cloudy day images! 😀
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Ahah, I heard shooting in RAW gives many possibilities. I’d love to try in the future, but for now my computer is too old and it wouldn’t be able to process such heavy files! 😀 Thinking of changing it soon tho.
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my 4GB Dell 17″ laptop is 6 years old and it can actually post process quite well … even if it does get a bit warm (even with two cooling fans underneath it!)
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6 years, pretty good, I’m impressed! Dell is a good brand. Mine is turning 7 this month! 4GB is perfect, I only have 3… and Vista OS on it, which is not the best, but I am nonetheless very attached to this machine :p
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oh, I wouldn’t say that. 🙂 I had a year of nightmares (and tech support was part of those) with my laptop before the blue screens stopped. mine runs on Windows 7.
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I see… mmm damn blue screens, I had a few of these, a big scare everytime, but thankfully not too often, crossing fingers it keeps that way 😀 I’m glad you could fix yours!
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I remember sitting for 3-4 hours with tech support, reformatting the OS, sending the system in for a mootherboard replacement, having to go through major hurdles to get a power adapter replacement/upgrade.
makes me shudder at the thought of getting a new system!
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Oh my… it does sound awful, robot malfunction… 🙂
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the laptop was defective from the get go … so I basically got a new laptop (over time).
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I only have a 55-200mm lens, do you think that would work?
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it should. I believe I was standing on a chair and shooting down at the plate of the cut fig.
the thing about a macro lens is that you can get quite close to your subject, whereas the minimum distance you can get with a 55 mm lens is not going to be as close (and therefore, not as detailed).
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