Sure, there are some warm colour here but beyond that baseline appeal, there is quite a bit that is problematical with this image.
Firstly the unsharpness; outside of the challenges and styles of execution that embrace blur, DPC is fairly intolerant of unsharpness images. Camera movement unsharpness like this is the worst received and most easily fixed, especially when I see you shot this at f/11 and ISO 400 - you have plenty of room for change in those settings not to have to live with 1/5 sec exposure times.
Additionally, I think your composition is not well suited to the subject; the crop sides of the basket constrict the image and have the effect of funnelling the viewers gaze upward, like squeezing toothpaste - our eyes end up looking at the dull background of out of focus plate and chopsticks.
Much better I think to have opened your aperture wide open, use a landscape orientation and offer a lower depth of field of the food and basket. I would have pulled back a little too and included the sides of the basket.
Having said all of that, although this would have addressed the technical short comings of the image, the overall subject matter of food seldom does well outside of food-focussed challenges; pictures that create stories tend to do better. Some users like h2 can manage to make things and objects very interesting but do so with careful planned lighting and extraordinarily well executed pre and post technicals.
Overall, I can see what you were going for but the image is let down by technical choices and given the type of image, it needed all the help it could get to be successful in this challenge.
Paul
Thanks a lot for your critique, enlightened me how to improve my skill.
Sure, there are some warm colour here but beyond that baseline appeal, there is quite a bit that is problematical with this image.
Firstly the unsharpness; outside of the challenges and styles of execution that embrace blur, DPC is fairly intolerant of unsharpness images. Camera movement unsharpness like this is the worst received and most easily fixed, especially when I see you shot this at f/11 and ISO 400 - you have plenty of room for change in those settings not to have to live with 1/5 sec exposure times.
Additionally, I think your composition is not well suited to the subject; the crop sides of the basket constrict the image and have the effect of funnelling the viewers gaze upward, like squeezing toothpaste - our eyes end up looking at the dull background of out of focus plate and chopsticks.
Much better I think to have opened your aperture wide open, use a landscape orientation and offer a lower depth of field of the food and basket. I would have pulled back a little too and included the sides of the basket.
Having said all of that, although this would have addressed the technical short comings of the image, the overall subject matter of food seldom does well outside of food-focussed challenges; pictures that create stories tend to do better. Some users like h2 can manage to make things and objects very interesting but do so with careful planned lighting and extraordinarily well executed pre and post technicals.
Overall, I can see what you were going for but the image is let down by technical choices and given the type of image, it needed all the help it could get to be successful in this challenge.
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