Smoked Salmon & Asparagus Fettucine
by Aryella

Comment:
Good idea including white wine. There are some technical issues to be concernede with. Focus is somewhat soft and would be better if sharper. The light reflection in the wine glass produces a distracting overexposed spot on the lace cloth behind it. The lace cloth is stained and that is distracting. The table is not level.

Creme Brulee With Strawberries
by jrjr

Comment:
Well arranged and taken at a good angle. Including blue and red adds color interest to the image and the blowtorch is a fun addition. The Pyrex measuring cup, eggshell and strawberry appear in sharper focus than the rest of the image which implies that shooting at a higher f/stop for greater depth of field would work with this image. The checkered background is a bit of a distraction to the rest of the composition.

Black Bean and Corn Salsa
by bowhenn

Comment:
Good idea to use a refection as part of the composition. Decent color and nice use of shallow DOF. Overall a little more contrast would add brightness to the image and though the refection is nice it having it off a bluegrey surface does not work as well as it could. Might be interesting to see how it would work off a mirror. The sharp focused areas still appear a bit on the soft focused side and might be better is sharpened more.

Soft Boiled Egg
by TrollMan

Comment:
Good solid black background, generally good technical quality, well centered in the frame. The white border works. The egg is overexposed on the left side but not badly so. The specks on the egg holder, however, are distracting and reflected light is harsh on its shiny surface. Perhaps there is something you might have done to eliminate them that does not involve cloning.

Cheescake ....Yeah!
by AWorth

Comment:
Nothing overexposed, has good detail in the focused area and the shallow DOF is good. Looks like there may be a tiny hair at the top of the cheesecake that should have been removed. Some viewers will be confused about the shot takn from floor level and that the background, which takes up pleanty of real estate, seems unrelated to the cake.

Last nights dinner .... untainted and ready to eat!
by kari1

Comment:
Good idea, especially the usage of a black background and the wine. The background would be best if it were uniformly black everywhere but grey shows up on the far left. Additional lighting to make the wine glass stand out more would be a good addition. The image seems a bit on the soft focused side when increasingly hungry reviewers want to see

Messynoodles
by Mazka

Comment:
Composition and arrangement are fine. It is on the small size and voters typical give small images lower scores. They figure it is smaller to hide technical flaws. The dark meat might have been better contrasted with light colored chopsticks. The image is soft focused in a way that many reviewers with judge it a technical flaw.

Radicchio - Recipe for a Better Salad
by ltaylor

Comment:
An interesting abstract composition with good use of red. It has an appearance of having had slightly excessive noise reduction applied to the center. If intentional be prepared to have some voters think it is a technical flaw. The brownish things in the top corners and the white line in the lower right corner are minor distractions. I'd be curious to see other angles and different perspectives on the Radicchio.

Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry
by kteach

Comment:
Nice arrangement, composition and lighting. The exposure is very good and the colors stand out. The background color is good with this arrangement and the black border works.

Creamy Homemade Peanutbutter Fudge
by neenee1999

Comment:
Well exposed and good color. You get a sugar high just looking at it. :) The dark background highlights the fudge well. It might be better still if made solid black to highlight the browns even more and hide image noise. Some viewers will be distracted wondering what that fuzzy object at the far center left is. The soft focused foreground seems distracting but that might reflect this reviewers personal bias.

Message edited by author 2006-02-08 07:48:45.