Peppers

Taken at Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA. Going almost solely for the color, I enjoyed making many captures of these peppers, which carpeted a huge table in the outdoor section of the market. This particular image ended up as a fun art project with Photoshop techniques.

D200 and 24-120G VR @ 78 mm w/circ. polarizer, handheld. f 5.3 @ 1/25 sec; +1.0EV. ISO 200. Manual mode, spot meter.
In Photoshop: cropped for composition; darkroom adjustments; combination of artistic filters and blending modes.