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camelotnorthComment by rmahan: This is quite a creative idea for the interpretation of "Pi". Almost every school kid knows "Pi R Squared" and there have been many jokes made about it. You created a picture to match the words. I often find it hard to say that someone doesn't meet a challenge because the idea is that each photographer produces THEIR interpretation ... the question is whether a viewer can connect to that interpretation or not. In this case, I think your communication is loud and clear and, in my opinion, this meets the challenge quite well.
Now for some things which, in my opinion, could improve your photograph:
Composition: I personally would have cropped this picture differently. The left-to-right cropping is slightly unbalanced and the top-to-bottom cropping makes me feel that I'm bumping up against the top of the picture. I would like to see centered cropping left-to-right and to have some more "breathing room" at the top and sides of the photograph even at the expense of making the subject slightly smaller.
Technical: I see a focus problem here or maybe more like a depth of field problem. It looks like a delicious pie and I would like to relish it from front to back. I would like to see every flake of that crust and that requires a much greater depth of field. The right-hand side of the pan is "blown out" as well as the left, front corner. The "R" appears to be made of felt and I would like to see less detail in the material. These are distracting elements which generally can be corrected by exposure control. I have to agree with some of the comments, too, that the angle of the shot might have been better had the camera been at a higher angle to the subject. Notice that the "R", when viewed as a flat object (which it is in a photograph) is smaller at the top than at the bottom. A steeper angle would have moderated this effect.
Lighting: I don't know what your lighting source was but you might have used something like a white sheet to diffuse the light and make it more even. Except for the two hot spots I mentioned, it is pretty good.
So now that I've drooled over this photograph so long, I'm off to the kitchen to see what I can scrounge up ... I don't think I'll find anything as delicious as what you've portrayed, though. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Regards ... for the Critique Club,
Bob Mahan
(rmahan)
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