Perfect tomatoes, not so perfect pictures

My wife had these tomatoes still shrink-wrapped sitting on the kitchen counter.  The red and green just cried out to be photographed.

But that was no simple thing. No picture in the camera looked like what I saw on the table - faded, dark, bluish...  Even when I set my camera for fluorescent light, the colors were better, but still not quite right.

Into the digital darkroom.  When I set 100% saturation then I got 99% satisfaction.



The tomatoes?  A day or two later they started developing cracks.  Instead of nice slices, we had chunks.