Comments on: Geeky Pumpkin Carving Designs

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:47:10 +0000

Mark
Kudos for your excellent carvings…I have myself made a few “photo realistic” carvings, and I am very impressed with your work. Perhaps I’ll dig through my old photos to find some examples I can post on the “pumpkin wizard” site.
I find it most amusing that people assume anything they can’t figure out in their tiny brains to be fake or Photo-shopped, as if creating an image like ‘Johnny’ in Photoshop is as trivial as clicking the ‘create Jack-o-lantern’ (OMG, I just got the pun…) menu item. Indeed, creating an image like that in Photoshop requires as much, if not more talent. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the inspiration!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:31:02 +0000

Lol. I can’t believe that my pumpkin is still considered a fake. Take a look at all of my “fake carvings” http://www.flickr.com/photos/sage_82/sets/72157602407599640/ and tell me how Here’s Johnny is fake. As for the lighting it is a Halogen puck light that the pumpkin is put over. The pumpkin obviously has a hole in the bottom to allow the light in. The curvature of the pumpkin and the light from the puck light cause the bottom to be darker than the high wattage light directed at the top of the pumpkin.

That is all. Nothing elaborate like photoshop.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:44:41 +0000

Wow…how much TV to you have to watch to be suspicious that a photo of a pumpkin carving is “fake”? Believe it or not, there are people who can…you know…take a lot of time and make cool stuff.

If it’s an elaborate PhotoShop job it might be MORE impressive.

By: Go back to sleep kids

Go back to sleep kids — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:03:09 +0000

“here’s Johnny” is fake. If it were carved, explain why the bottom of the pumpkin (Johnny’s chin) is dark while the top of the pumpkin, which also is not carved is much lighter (light diffusion). Note that the light source is clearly mounted at the very bottom of the pumpkin, so much so that light is clearly and strangely visible below the aforementioned “dark chin region”.

That is all.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:24:36 +0000

hahaha Pumpkin Pie! That’s awesome! I wish Halloween wasnt over..

By: Pedo

Pedo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:12:42 +0000

Here’s Johnny looks more like a carved watermelon than a pumpkin.

By: Jai

Jai — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:29:19 +0000

Sorry to burst the bubbles of the little non-creative haters on this site, but, Johnny is real… the man has talent and has worked for weeks doing these carvings every halloween for years. Of course i can’t type for the rest of the artists, but, i can only imagine if one person is that talented (or demented as the case were to spend hours carving this stuff) then there might be others…
FYI he actually shares how he does these with others in case you STILL are a non-believer… don’t hate the carver… hate the pumpkin ~wink~
{Personal note to the carver, nice job yet again … looking forward to next years!}

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:13:43 +0000

Wow… I had a friend send me this link. I am amazed to read the comments about my “Here’s Johnny” pumpkin. Too F’ing funny. Let me set the record straight. That pumpkin carving is NOT photoshopped or doctored in anyway.

Here is a link to all of my pumpkin carvings over the last few years.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sage_82/sets/72157594257250404/

you can view larger version of Here’s Johnny there to prove to yourself it is real.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/284169743_97cba48cf6_b.jpg

If I need to take another picture of this pumpkin with some form of “proof” let me know. This cracks me up. I guess I should consider it the highest form of flattery.

By: Paul The Younger

Paul The Younger — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:48:24 +0000

Sorry - the image code didn’t work. Try this link to see it, and his other carves from this year, I think you’ll be impressed.

http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/newqna/viewtopic.php?t=2959&highlight=

By: Paul The Younger

Paul The Younger — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:46:12 +0000

Actually, the Johnny pumpkin is a very real carving, on an artificial pumpkin (rigid foam pumpkins sold at Michaels or JoAnns). It was created by a very talented carver from Clarkston, Michigan. You can see his work and others at my favorite pumpkin carving message board — http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/newqna/ .

If you need more proof, here is a wide shot of his Halloween display this year (Johhny’s on the far left).

[IMG]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l222/PaulTheYounger/SageDisplay07.jpg[/IMG]

Paul