Pink Bananas

[titrisol]

These are quite special in taste and texture....
Saw this bunch laying on the road while traveling to the coast of Ecuador and could not resist
Now I´m not happy with the composition .... how can I improve this?

[phule]

Possible alternatives:

1. Lower to the ground, slightly further away with a longer focal length or,

2. Closer, isolating one or two pinks against the greens.


I am, clearly, no expert on composition.  These are just the two ideas I had when studying your photo

[Wayne]

Cool, I do some work on bananas so this is inetersting to me. There is a red sub-group of bananas and they are grown in small numbers here - we call them Red Dacca. The green bananas in the picture look like they may be Plantains.

I think the picture just needs a bit more space in front of the red bunch. Otherwise the composition is pretty good with the lines of the wet pavement converging below the red bunch.

[r-brian]

It's tough to make a suggestion without seeing the whole scene, but for me, I'd try shoot at more of an angle making the red bananas come into the frame at more of an angle.  And maybe flipping the composition making the red ones come in from the top instead of the bottom.

[rgeorge911]

Always look for "pictures within pictures."  Here are a couple of possible variations:


I like how the green bananas on the top left form a horizontal line, in contrast to the orientation of the reds.


I also like the diagonal line of the stalk.

Nice shot!

Reed

[Major Black]

IMHO, since you asked, I would rearrange the pile of bananas so that the red is somehow surrounded by green bananas, try some off center compositions, try some very close with OOF greens behind, or vice versa, maybe attempt to make some sort of drawing or sculpture with the bananas, then I'd eat a lot of them!

Reshooting is good for one's soul. I do it.

[jamesmck]

My vote, given that reshooting probably isn't an option.

[radiophoto]

I like Reed's vertical option quite a bit.  It's an unusual shot to begin with, and a really nice opportunity that not too many of us would get on a regular basis.

[titrisol]

Thanks a lot!
your comments are very welcome
Reshooting is not an option maybe if I see these again; this ime we were coming back from a few days at the beach and we made a pee-stop and saw those just laying on the ground


Red bananas used to be quite common when I was a kid growin up in Ecuador; we used to cook them on the grill afer the meat was done for desert.
The green ones are plantains and there were also some normal yellow bananas and a few maqueños (fat yellw bananas for cooking)
Many other fruits were shown; I put a few pics I had in a memory stick in a picasa album

[Wayne]

Square crop?

[jamesmck]

FWIW, I think Wayne's square crop is the best of the suggestions.

James

[Julio1fer]

Agree with Wayne's suggestion for a square crop. Beatiful colors.

Plenty of bananas in Ecuador, of course. IIRC there is even a football team named "Bonita Banana".

[titrisol]

thanks guys!
I just ordered a 30x30 cm print

Agree with Wayne's suggestion for a square crop. Beatiful colors.

Plenty of bananas in Ecuador, of course. IIRC there is even a football team named "Bonita Banana".

To Julio... 1st congrats for la celeste!
About Bonita Banana that team existed in the 70s
BBUUUTTT the original name of the team was "Carmen Mora de Encalada" as Mr Encalada was the owner and then they changed the name

there were also "Valdez" (sugar cane); Tobar (aguardiente);