red vase

[Terry]

Tim,

With the latest revision, I just realised that the incense stick holder is supposed to be a sphere. The original reflection made it look as if it were shaped like a wheel.

Do you play pool?

Reflections off of a curved surface are not particularly intuitive, and neither is the way one pool ball will bounce off another. If you fire a beam of light from the viewer's eye to the reflection of the window on the sphere, will that beam reflect off of the sphere and hit the window?

Your choice of colors and lighting is very nice, and the picture is very pleasant to look at. I like it, but keep working on it...

[TimS]

Derek and Terry,
first of all, thanks for working with me.
I havn't given up yet. Here is my latest.
Terry, I'm not sure what your telling me, but I've been holding a Christmas orniment up to windows for the past week and this is what I see in the reflection.
Am I getting closer????

[John Rayner]

looks good to me...

[masque]

Tim
I think it looks a lot beter. Its hard to suggest anything else without being too critical.
I still get the impression that the black sphere on the dish is still slightly to high up the side of the vase but thats hard to judge and I think the oval highlight on the side of the vase should fade out more towards the base and be softened with a little feathering. Perhaps the top of the window highlight should curve more as it wraps around the neck of the vase though the way that fades toward the base is what I mean for the eliptical highlight.
Keep going, its looking great.
Derek

[Terry]

Tim,

Very nice!

[RTK]

Tim,

Nice work! I especially love the deep, lush red!

Thumbs up!