when you're presented with lemons

you had better shoot them for posterity.

week 10 of the 52-week challenge. this time the category is vision, the assignment, selective colouring.

at the office's servery yesterday, i saw a big bowl of lemons and i told the catering manager i wished to shoot it as i needed a yellow photograph. this morning she called me and asked me to come up and shoot the lemons already before the floor gets busy. i was quite amused that she actually set this up and added, to my utter delight, the chef's knife with a yellow handle. how cool is that!

so it was a no-brainer that the knife's handle would remain yellow. the dilemma are the lemons. do i only select half the bowl of lemons, or select one in either ends of the bowl and one in the centre. although i didn't try to see what that would actually look like that way, i decided a couple of lemons together would be more pleasing, visually. like this one.

the lemons looked weird in stark black and white so i slid the desaturator a tad bit to give them a little colour. they are still weird!

[☠northy]

Very cool... those desaturated lemons are rather disconcerting!

[Lou Ann]

Very cool! Love the knife handle too!

[Maggiemae]

Ooh, don't they look weird without their lemon colour! Like stones. Glad the real ones have that ripe and juicy look!

[Lisa Poland]

Fun!

[Diana]

A great image.

[Ron]

I'd like some of that grey lemonade please.

[Mek]

Something very unhealthy about this edit ;-)

[K1W1]

The desaturated lemons don't look so appealing. Love the set up and POV of the shot though.

[katy]

Nice composition and a great use of SC. I think it would have more impact if the lemons had been full on B&W but what do I know?! The knife handle is a great added touch!

[Henri Russell]

I love your composition and selective coloring. I do like the slight color for the balance of the lemons.

[JackieR]

Looks like real lemons with pottery ones. What a lovely catering manager!!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Looks like some sort of new lemon variety gone awry! I really like it though!

[Kathy]

A big bowl of lemons. Nice job at the selective color.

[Helen Jane]

This is an interesting take on the use of selective colour. It is a job well done, although I am not sure what to make of the drained looking ones. I'm certainly going to pick the yellow ones from the bowl for my cooking.