Okay its done at last:)
Here is my entry for the BC competition.
If you like it, I would really appreciate some love over at blender cookie: http://cgcookie.com/blender/images/shelf-life/
I’ll be posting the .blend after the contest is done. 
Thank you for time.
Nathan Wilkinson
awesome 
I’m really impressed with the lighting and shading here, you’ve definitely captured the look and feel of halloween
best of luck in the competition!
Thanks Jeepster I appreciate it. 
Impressive render you have there
Good job
I love the concept.
Impressive work.
Best of luck in the competition.
great work, very “painterly” feel.
Thank you glad you like it.
All of the above + GREAT story-telling
Ooh, I wish that you could still put this image through one more pass of the “curves” node, because the highlights are “hot” while the non-highlights seem a bit washd-out.
(In the good ol’ days, I would be reaching in the darkroom-darkness for a sheet of high-contrast printing paper. Well, heck, I still have a darkroom…!)
I can almost visualize how I would be “dodging” the pumpkin in the upper right section, and “burning in” the lower-left area, and … ooh, if I only had a kiss-of-light on the left side of that “potato at 10 o’clock” that could also kill that band-of-dark to the left of the little squash that’s sitting on the metal can at 8 o’clock …
… but, if that would entail “another 23-hour render,” then maybe a very creative “curve” would intensify the shot and bring out more of what I think it could, yet be.
