These were some strawberries we ate the other night. Normal people just eat them, but I had to take a photo first. Looking at the picture, the bowl looks like it's a small one - maybe three inches wide. But, in fact, this is a big glass mixing bowl that's more like 10 inches wide and the strawberries are huge. Depending on your monitor, theseare probably showing up a fair amount smaller than they actually were. These came in a box of 12 that cost 1800 yen. That's about $1.25 each! Ordinarly I would not buy such outlandishly expensive strawberries, but I saw them in the store and figured, what the heck, I've got to eat a strawberry that big at least once.

The shot was handheld with bounce flash off the ceiling at +1 2/3 FEC. Normally I don't fiddle with white balance too much, but I needed to here as the flash was mixed with so many other light sources that I actually shot a test card to get the right color temperature. If I had some way to rig the camera overhead securely I would have stopped down to f/11 or so, but as it was I had to get to a barely manageable 1/30 second so that I could get away with a handheld shot. The background is actually just a piece of printer paper on my dining table. I clipped the top and bottom of the bowl and moved it slightly off-center to give the picture a rectangular, rather than square, feel.

Canon EOS 20D, EF 50mm f/1.8 II, f/2.8, 1/30 sec, ISO 800