Not so happy with this one, wanted it sharper, better lit (blowing out the background via Photoshop makes the edges of the onion look unnatural I think), and I just couldn’t decide on the crop. When I got the composition right, the onion looked too small (it is in fact a fairly large onion), when the onion looked the right size, I lost all the extra bits in the foreground… Maybe I’ll try again another day, this will have to do for now :-)

Today I completely forgot to take a photo, so I’ve just picked this one from a series I had taken earlier, on the 4th of July to be precise. I processed it in GIMP on my Mac, and there’s something about those colour profiles that I don’t understand. I first chose this photo where I could see all my thumbnails at once, in iPhoto. Then opened it in GIMP, which told me a camera colour profile was found, and if I wanted to convert it to sRGB profile. I said yes.

Then the photo looked much less saturated in GIMP than it did in iPhoto. Thinking that this is the colour profile difference, I then added a bit of contrast and saturation with the curves tool, and saved it and uploaded it. But now it looks much greener than it did in GIMP. I don’t have the same problem with GIMP on Windows, so I think it must be something between GIMP and Mac. If anyone could shed some light on this, I’d be grateful.

Tonight I went and got Chinese takeaway meals. We ordered three meals, but somehow that always means we have food for three days. The boxes look small, but the content must be compressed molecules or something. The boxes just don’t get empty after filling everyone’s plate. Twice.