Hey Ralph,
The new sky looks great, works really cool with the image and puts more depth on it. 
The new expression for the broccoli that carries Barbee is really nice. Great details on your concept.
Looking forward for more updates. Cheers!!! … with a “piña colada” 
Yea that sky looks far better, really supports the big monsters very well, especially like the lighting for the pineapple…Love the various table utensils flying around. I can just imagine the big broccoli sneezing after being pepper shaked. Working a treat, korendo!!
Marley
WIP - Requesting your comments to see if the extra pepper shaker should stay or not.
Thank for your comments and for viewing.
Hey Ralph,
I vote for (A). I think the image without the extra pepper shaker work really well.
You are having really great fun with this image my friend Cheers!!
Marley - Thanks for the comment.
Fernando - Thanks for your suggestions. You are right I am having a great time working on this image, it’s been long, long time since I last worked on a photographic based image making.
Hey Ralph,
Nice, like the atmospher that are coming from the image, you have really strong and interesting elements on your image, a cool magical mistery tour
Perhaps you can add a fog layer from the city to the background hills to gain in deep for the image and look more far the giant broccoli, Mr. Pineapple and the city, now the elements in the image look a bit in the same plane.
Maybe yo can add contrast for the foreground elements. If you guide by the sun light over the sky the light is coming from the right and back side of the background, perhaps some casting shadows and more contrast on the broccoli and the man on the left side of the image can help to put more distance and enviroment effect on the image. ( Are you the guy of the image? :D)
I dont know if giant broccoli can grab some airplane or building in one hand, think that can be a nice touch (more than a critic is a wish… hahahahaha :D)
Cool work, love that broccoli mutants ! Cheers!!
Hi Fernando - you brought up some great points. I did increase the contrast in the foreground images, and added just a touch of fog, it is an improvement. The giant broccoli looking far away is mostly a fluke in the tonality of the stalk. The cityscape is meant to look like a flat cutout and the other buildings are plastic toys going for a toy train set look. So it is a odd push/ pull between wanting to make a convincing reality and a obvious fake. Thanks again, now go get painting!
It is quite hard to draw or type with my hand made out of broccoli. And its making a mess of the keyboard.
Well this just shows you - broccoli has such a wholesome reputation but now I’ve learned they have a dark side. Who’d have guessed? It’s insights like these that keep me coming back to this forum. Marvellous thread - I love the look of that dude in front with the broccoli hand. Your whole concept just screams ‘B-movie’ and I’d like to think that financiers and production moguls are rushing to arrange pre-production meetings even as I type this. Those kitchen implements in the air look wonderful too. Very funny and strangely logical too. Bravo!
Software: Photoshop
Invasion of the Giant Angry Broccoli! A worker at a nuclear plant finds his wife only packed a head of broccoli in his lunch box, in a fit of rage he throws it in the reactor. Now the Broccoli grows gigantic and is angry. It attacks the town. All who are not crushed by it are turned into broccoli monsters themselves. One of these smaller broccoli monsters carries off a beautiful lady. Alien eyeball plant things seem to be communicating with the broccoli monsters. Somehow the radioactive broccoli monsters have made dinosaurs appears, possibly by a time space wormhole. This madness has gone far enough the army is called out but even they are having a hard time so they summon the Pineapple monster (Pineappia) who with the help of the army confronts the giant angry broccoli monster in a final showdown. Mean while the guy controlling one helicopter got this arm in the shot, but it is only for a few frames so no one will notice (wish we had a bigger budget so we could reshoot that scene).
It has been great fun and very stimulating interacting with so many extremely talented and hardworking artist from around the world.
My main inspiration was B-movies I remember from my childhood. To me the best B-movies were in Black and White and were so cheaply produced that they were sometimes funny. I wanted my image to be consistent with those old movies, so I stuck with black and white photography in a horizontal format. The giant broccoli is the main element with the cluster of related elements as different scenes of this story. I could have added many more elements but the image was getting a bit busy.
Credits - My daughter Sianna took the photo of me with a broccoli hand under my direction. Standing in the back yard with a broccoli hand, time was a issue (to reduce calls to social workers) I figured she could do it quicker that using the timer and tripod.
I painted the airplane and helicopters not wanting to have copyright issues and not having any shots like that in my inventory. The monsters faces were also painted with no reference. The background is made of photo elements I took.
That is just totally cheesy! I love the details - the shot of you with the “hand turned into broccoli” is hysterical in its… um… lack of budget. Nice work!
Hey Ralph,
Totally cool concept. Love your awesome talent for tell story in a great way, with a lot of humor and cleverness
I enjoy this magical mysterious tour and have a great fun following the development of this image. For sure this concept has two of the greatest monsters ever for a B-Movie, The Giant Angry Broccoli and Pineappia ( The giant pineapple) 
. I specialy love your photo, mutating on a evil radioactive broccoli, the gesture is fantastic Like a lot that feel of a toy-miniature scene , puts a totally low budget production touch.
You have a great fun with this image for sure, and was a great fun to see you having a lot of fun hahahaha, funtastic!! … hahahaha ( no more beer for me… hahahahaha)
Congratulations for this beautiful and funny image!! Cheers my friend!! … yes time for a lot of beer and a lot of tequila shots!! ( and a pizza of broccoli with pineapple :D) …
Excellent finish! I love your story too. That bit about how it all started is fantastic and teaches me how the future of the world is so easily dependant on packing the right lunch - something I’ve long suspected but now seen proven here. And that giant broccoli makes a truly superb B-Movie monster. Your final image is great fun, looks beautiful and has enough cool stuff happening in it to reward repeated viewing. Bravo!
Hey Ralph,
I love the look you’ve gone for! Its hilarious!
I especially love the guy’s hand made of broccoli, hehehe
I have to say, I did enjoy the flying… girls? with the vegetable wings
Cheers!
Walrus Yes my friend this image is cheesy in essence, a reflection of cheesy B-movies, many so cheap they had stick figure posters. The target B-moves was black and white movies shown on TV in the 60s, e.g. alien monster-brains with strings in clear view. Cheesiness is the metaphor of the drama and humor in this image. The uncomfortable arm shown at the top of the image helps to dispel all doubt this is a low budget effort. It has been a real treat interacting with you. Glad you like it. Thanks once more for your comments.
Fernando You are one very busy guy and talented guy. Thanks for all the encouragement and insights, you are a real art sprit.
Mark - You are so right, the lunch connection when accented with broccoli and radiation can only lead to a giant monster packed with nutrition. Makes one ponder. Thanks for your comments and encouragement!
Aaron - Thanks for taking the time to stop by and for your comments.
Congratulations! Very funny and original image. If I had to chose a favourite aspect it would probably be the broccoli kidnapping the barbie doll, because its expression is the most evil and it emphasizes the confusing scale of the elements. But the shot of your mutating hand and the two giant monsters are extremely silly (in a good way), too. Good to see I’m not the only black and white entry!
Good job man.