The idea of the composition was to create a warm and atmospheric image. I wanted to arrange the papayas to simulate a happy family on a warm night, with the mother leaning on the father and the children playing.

From creating this composition, I have learned a great deal about how to play with colors and lighting, to achieve the desired effect.

1 – The first task was to find three papayas of different shapes and sizes to simulate a family.

2 – To make the subjects “sit” more firmly, I placed them on a piece of rotten wood. After a search, I found the perfect rotten wood near the train station.

3 – To create warmth and soft light, I hung a dark yellow cloth in the window. I also chose a piece of black velvet to block some of the light and to create the “triangular” shadows in the background.

4 – To add warmth to the image, I used two warm filters, Kenko 85 and Hoya 81C, and a polarizing filter to reduce the reflections on the surface of the fruit. This would also increase the saturation of the colors.

5 – To enhance the effect of the background, I colored it in the appropriate places. However, depth of field had to be constantly adjusted through the viewfinder; this is after all, still in the analogue era.

6 – Thankfully, when the preparation was done well, the shooting was completed smoothly, and perhaps the image was already burned into my mind quite vividly.