Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

Today’s submission to ‘Fruit Picture of the day’ project is kiwi. I had the idea of shooting a couple of them together - one cut and one untouched - for a couople of days now. When I started the session I realized that I have eaten all of them but one while thinking about composition. Putting just one fruit in the frame wasn’t interesting anymore, so I decided to cut it in two. Then I realized that it is pretty difficult to:

• adjust your brain to two halfs after thinking about two wholes for a couple of days
• places items of round forms in exact positions
• cover up ugly parts of the kiwi fruit when all you have are ugly parts of the fruit

I have taken a total of 18 shots to produce this one picture here. It reminds me of my early computer days when I was making syntax errors in the if … then … else statement every other day for a few month in a row.