landscapes and things--the film years Silver Bowl, repost

Wetting the cherry's around the base with maybe some tiny pools of water as well?

in your bio..and i think this is the most exciting in your portfolio..7/7 --willy--

I love silver and I love fruit. You have an excellent presentation of them both. I love the bowls reflections and the highlights on the cherries. The black surroundings really look good with your subject. Perfect photograph and lovely to see this!

Well, if you're determined to have a rounded portfolio, this is an excellent inclusion. I'm really not a great fan of still-life, but this one is really well done. I love the way the bowl kind of dissolves into the background.

Thank you all for the nice comments. I did this stuff in the 80's when I was doing some commercial photography. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, so I sold all the lighting equipment and went back to school!

Love the lighting and presentation on this photo!

This is an excellent still-life! I love the way the silver urn and cherries just disappear into the background. The lighting is really great and I love the waterdrops on the cherries; look so good I wish I could reach into the photo and eat them! Just lovely; very well done and seen. Thank you for sharing this image...I only wish I could take photos like this! :)

I remember this from a previous posting. The tones and lighting are just superb. Did you ever try printing this? I was wondering how much was lost in the process and whether you were satisfied with the end result. I've tried some printing lately with mixed results, mostly disappointing.

Thanks Trisha for your comment. Jack, I have made 11x14 prints from this and they are exactly as you see here. 16x20 would be no problem as well. After all, this is a scan from a 4x5 inch Ektachrome! Scanned even at 1200 ppi you get a nice file of 4800x6000 pixels! Scanned with a drum scanner at 4000 ppi you could make a sharp 20x24 inch print easily. The lens used for this shot was very sharp and the camera was on a tripod, of course. The lighting was a large softbox directly overhead and a 1600 watt second flash head was used (Speedotron). The black surface (curved up in back) is simply a large sheet of black formica plastic used for counter tops. You cannot get close to this kind of resolution with a DSLR, and never will. With that kind of image size reproduction is fantastic. If I was into landscape photography I would be using this camera. It is big, heavy and expensive to shoot this type of film however, probably over 5 dollars a shot just for film and processing, and not including scanning or printing. Go to my friend Joel Truckenbrod's website (look at his gallery) to see what he is doing with a 4x5 camera and landscape photography. http://www.joeltruckenbrod.com/

Here is a 100% crop of one of the cherries of my low grade scan on a consumer Epson flat bed scanner.

Impeccably composed and executed photo with excellent clarity, colors and light. A great example of the perfect stock photography. Seven like a house!

really well done. its clean and well executed.. i  find the hanging cherry  makes the photo somewhat unbalanced and like it was planned instead of looking natural but that is just my opinion.. its still very original and keeps my interest

Thanks Stephanie.  Yes, the hanging cherry was quite calculated to be somewhat off-setting.  That's where I placed the drop of water too.  This was part of a commercial portfolio designed to impress art directors, and not really meant for hanging on the wall.