Art Imitating Art

[John 2]

Comments welcome.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Wavelength]

Very nice....

[John 2]

Thanks John, thanks Nandakuma.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice John

[John 2]

Thank you Binnur.

[IzzieK]

Unusual but classy, John...different.

[teokf]

Regardless of which social platform I have been, I have got myself into more trouble when commenting on images. So, fingers crossed.

To start off, you have painted a very true to form apple. But, I have problems with the image. Firstly, the direction of light. Looking at the apple, the light is coming at an angle about 45% from the top right, but the corresponding shadows tells me otherwise. Secondly, the amount of shadow on the front of the apple is too much and too defined since that is where the light is coming from the shadow should be lighter.

Cheers

[John 2]

Thanks all for the comments.

Steven, we don't get upset about comments on this forum (provided they are polite). You have been here longer than me so you know that. This isn't a painting. The original photograph of the apple was taken as a test shot to see how well a 50mm Olympus lens from an OM1 system that I still have, would work on my Fuji X-T2. The Olympus 50mm f1.8 was rated in its day but it doesn't stand out compared to modern lenses. I then acquired the free download of Topaz Studio and found it had a very good water colour filter; much more realistic than PS CC's offering. A canvas overlay, some PS PP to produce the string and framing then resulted in what you see. (You can see how I use my rainy days.) So the shadow is natural. I can only think that it may be that the vignette I have applied has perhaps skewed the apparent lighting balance. I don't know but thanks for the thought anyway.

[teokf]

...You can see how I use my rainy days..

Although I have been here longer than you, I haven't been active. It was the first time I saw your "Art" work and I have not seen how you use it on "my rainy days."

Thanks for explaining the filter you used, which I had no idea you used one, I think I would check out what Topaz has to offer.

[John 2]

You're welcome Steven. Topaz has a whole range of filter sets. Not all are to my taste but some like their noise reduction and cut out software, I find are very effective. Topaz Studio is designed to host other purchaseable filters, hence it's free in order to encourage you to do so but it has a number of useful filters built in and is worth having for that reason.