I carved a head out of an apple and posed it in a baking tray. I set the tray outside in late afternoon cloudy sunlight. I thought I wanted dramatic single source lighting, but this works for me. I put curves on it to up the contrast and lighten it. I put a violet photo filter to make it less yellow, then I gave up and just decreased the yellow in hue/saturation. then I resized and USM.
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Really cool. I didn't know you are a sculptor as well as all your other talents. I really like the processing on this. (But I don't think I want any cookies baked in that pan.) ;}
Wow, not your usual apple shot, that's for sure - great work, brilliant, really. How you placed in the frame too makes it visually arresting. Really, very impressive - I wish I could think to do things like that.
Melethia I worked long and hard on that pan - and I'd bet you are underestimating your own artistic talents again ;-) Maybe we need a decrepit cookware side-challenge! p.s. apple head is safe and shrinking away. Bear I think you will get extra points for WS. CC you hit it on the head - Looks like nosferatu to me tu! For anyone who might doubt it still, Posthumous is indeed an amazing artist.
"An apple serves as well as any skull
to be the book in which to read a round,
and is as excellent, in that it is composed
of what, like skulls, comes rotting back to ground.
But it excels in this, that as the fruit
of love, it is a book too mad to read
before one merely reads to pass the time..."
Wow. That takes serious talent! The carving part. Not the cookie sheet outside part. THAT part I've done before but without the carved apple. Really loses something in translation at that point. But did you keep the apple and let it dry and get withered and do another shot of the visage?
Love this shot! There's so much to see here. It's not just your normal apple in the normal setting. I like this picture not only of the carving, but the depth it gives and the textures you chose for the background. The choice of colors really add to the dark feel I get from this (love dark moody stuff). Well done! 9 simply for orginality, focus and how it grabbed me.
Amazing visual and conceptual complexity. Love the choice of surface and just the right degree of oxidation of the apple sculpture. One of the most artisticlly impressive images in this challenge. I'm voting ten. Unlikely to score high in general voting (I'd like to be wrong about that), but fine candidate for a Posthumous award and worthy of recognition and discussion. Might have cropped to not have the diagonal edge in the background, but I'm not reducing score. Thank you for posting it.
Very nice! I was actually considering carving an Apple IIe out of an actual apple, but then realized what kind of work that would entail, and thought better of it. I really love the color contrast you have going on here, with the organic colorization in the apple (flesh and blood), with the almost industrial feel of the surface/background. Fantastic.
I think side lighting might have brought out the face a bit better. The background would have worked better with a smoother subject. As it is, I think the two textures compete for attention.
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