Can't make a sandwich without the bread!by
jamesgossComment by spiritualspatula: Hello and greetings from the Critique Club-
First and foremost, the thing that strikes me about your entry is that the challenge prompt desires that we show the whole of an object through its constituent parts. You have disassembled your object, but I am not personally given a definitive sense of a sandwich through what I see. Part of this is due to the shallow depth of field, which shifts me away from the parts, denies me the chance to reconstruct the object through its parts, and the assembled sandwich in the background simply shows me the whole object on its own, but not through the parts. As a general rule, setup shots of this nature need to be exceptionally clean to really push them over the top into the really successful realm. I would suggest you study Oliver̢۪s work (
h2) to get an idea of what I mean.
Beyond that, your lighting is pleasing. It has a very natural feel to things, providing a nice depiction of shape, light and dark. Your sandwich parts are well saturated, but not terribly garish either, so they look luscious and enticing (everything has a fresh look to it with perhaps a small exception going to the cheese, which looks like it might be getting a bit dry).
Overall a good take on the challenge, but suffers from the pedigree of shots in this category that precede it. To score well with a shot like this, the voting community largely expects perfection, so it̢۪s a tough field style to score well with.
Photographer found comment helpful.
