Fulcrum

About this Image: Bryce 4.01, A touch of Photoshop 4 in post. This image is about  opposites, harmony and balance. There are a lot of different kinds of balance here, and I've listed them on a separate page here so I won't spoil you with my preconceived ideas. This marks the first image in what I am calling my Pretentious Era since I'm actually trying to communicate a concept with the image, as well as the beauty of a well constructed apple. Like all pretentious exercises it's likely doomed to humiliation, but I wanted to try. This has been fun to construct in that I've worked on it on and off for about 7 months and , at various times, my friends have gotten into *very* heated debates over it's meaning and form. I knew the image was done when two of my friends (after no small amount of Merlot) started shouting and getting physical in a "debate" about where I should place an orange. (Thanks guys!)

My heartfelt thanks go out to a number of people who helped critique the composition and gave good advice. First thanks to Jeff Ross and Mark Huelsman for teaching me about line and form in an image, St. Lee Hughey for suggesting a new lighting idea to me to overcome an ambience problem, CW Crisman also for sharing some lighting techniques, Gunther Burkus and members of the Bryce Forum for their suggestions and bagfuls of useful feedback, and to Charles Anderson for settling a debate by simply telling us which wall it was going to go on when I framed it and gave it to him for his birthday.

Also, a number of people has asked me about the apples. They're just tori with a texture I worked on (which I ended up calling Granny Horvath Green). I'm making the apple model publicly available. Use it as much as you would care to (but mention where you got it from).