Is it a real sword or a fantasy??

[David]

Originally Posted by machinist

Found it http://astalo.deviantart.com/art/My-precious-281649270 An artist on Deviant Art made it for himself supposedly. Ians comment made me curious and I was sure he was right and we were all fooled so I did a reverse google image search and this piece has appeared on seemingly thousands of sites mostly about gamers and zomby apocalypses

Looking at his gallery is jawdropping http://ugo-serrano.deviantart.com/gallery/

Great work. Which reverse image search did you use? When i used tineye.com i came up with a bunch of the zombie gamers, but couldn't find the source image.
No offense to Ian here, but apparently he was not right since it does seem this is indeed an actual photograph of an actual sword. I believe most of us were fairly certain this was a modern piece using past influences which does now seem to be the case. This guy is a rather talented contemporary metal smith with a flair for ancient styles. Pretty fantastic really, though obviously not what we do here.

[fernando]

It appears that the various opinions were diverse but also converging in that this is a fantasy ... at least in its broad sense.
In a way i can see Ian's approach on the shadows issue. Not that it defines that the objects are not real (You David, know far enough about photography to judge it) but, there are tricks about this presentation. The encounter of both sword and scabbard tips look as if the picture of both was not simultaneous; giving 'logic' to the 'ilogic' of showing them in opposite positions, something a person familiar with weaponry would not basicaly do ... nor fabricating the sword guard in a position 'ilogic' to be drawn from its scabbard.
Surely this type of implements is not within the scope of our forums but, now and then, a digestive brain storm means no harm .


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