Gotcha!
by Jutilda

Comment:
Love the idea on this one. Love the shot on the right and in the center. Wish there was just a little more on the shot on the left. (backlit for a outline, or just a hint more of the face -- not much at all, just a tad more...)

Play? Pounce?

Street Jamb
by JamesDowning

Comment:
I'm struggling on this one. The title has me thinking door, frame, things holding things up, but the upper left doesn't lend itself to those. So I'm stumped. The shot in the upper left is my fav. I like the lines quite a bit. I also like the idea of the different tones, but they don't quite work for me here. I like how the shot on the right makes it look like the side view of the two shots on the left.

Word
by colorcarnival

Comment:
hehehe... water, I assume? I love the center shot!!

Chocolate Chiboust with dried apples, honey cooked pears and lemon thyme
by mrbig65

Comment:
There are a few problems with this shot. One of the biggest problems are the harsh highlights. If you're using natural light, you might want to hold up a white sheet in front of your light source. I don't know if it would fix it, but it might minimize it. Or simply work your angles to avoid the highlights.

The crop on the top and bottom is a little awkward. Since a small amount of the apple and the chocolate is cut off, it looks a little more like a mistake instead of a conscious decision. Many times it's better to take a bigger cut than just a tiny amount.

The color looks a tad off. Was your plate really a peachy pink, or was it leaning more towards the whites? You may have a color cast issue going on.

-5-

I N D U L G E
by IAmEliKatz

Comment:
Not quite sure what to do with this one. I like the idea, but the oof food and hand is bothering me. I like that it adds a sense of movement, but it seems to be in between comfort zones -- either more blurred or less blurred would work better, imo. Also, the tinting of the photo clashes with the dessert. Yet I like the idea of the colored tinting, but the color just seems off.

I want to give it more than a 5, but as it is, that's where it ends up. But it could have gone as high as an 8 if things flowed a bit better.

A Girl's Favorite
by jusjoshing

Comment:
I really like the idea of this. The strawberry is nicely done, and the lips are nice. However, the rest is not working quite right for me. I think it's because the grey makes it look a little dead (literally) -- it's such a strange color for a person. I think I would have preferred just a very high key skin tone, slightly desat. This is just a guess, but a living, warm color, but really high key I think would have worked so much better. Plus the back fingers being so blown makes them just glow and stand out.

It's a 6 as it is, but I think this could have been an 8 or 9 shot.

I'll Take Mine Wet
by shair

Comment:
I like the close crop and the colors, but I wish the shutter speed had been faster. Personally, I think that splash shots are much more interesting when they're really crisp and in focus. 6 for the bold crop and colors.

Strawberries
by sfalice

Comment:
I like the idea of the background quite a bit, but I don't think it works in this case (for me, at least. :)

If you had a yellow dessert, I think it could be quite a bit of fun. But right now it just seems to fight your subject instead of help it. -6-

O
by Tiberius

Comment:
I like this. I like the shallow depth of field. The two cherries in the back are gorgeously oof. For some reason the stem on the front one being out of focus bugs me. I wish it was turned a little so the whole stem was in focus (simply because the stems are wonderful on a cherry, and very photogenic.)

Also, have you tried flipping it horizontally? Sometime it's much more comfortable for the eye to start of in focus and move towards the oof (since we read from left to right.) -7-

Another Great Cake by "It's All About The Cake" - Dana Point, CA
by seethroughmylens

Comment:
Wonderful cake. Lighting is nice and soft without harsh highlights. But it's so close to the brick wall that it feels more like a snapshot, imo. I would have liked it moved away quite a bit, with a more shallow depth of field to relegate the background to a background and make it less important. -6-