Q: Fruit or Vegetable?
by TonyT

Comment by CNovack:
Composition is good. Lighting is keen in any photos and this is where the majority of my critique lies. The lighting overall is good but the high gloss sheen on the tomatoes make them appear plastic and unreal. Diffused lighting instead of spot-on lighting may help eliminate the problem. The other solution is to lessen the sheen in post-processsing. Possibly using the clone tool at a setting of 30-40 opacity and going over the spots with the high sheen to tone them down will still give you the rich colors without flattening the tone. I am not sure a cutting board with all those visible cuts makes a good backdrop for the main subjects. The scuffed up/cut-up look to the board detracts some attention away from the knife and the tomatoes because they cannot visually pop off of the surface of the backdrop. Lastly I think it would have added visually if the sharp point of the knife was visible in the composition instead of cropped out. Why? Seeing the sharp edge along with the sharp point of the blade helps add subtley to the connection of slicing the tomatoes.

Q: Fruit or Vegetable?
by TonyT

Comment by MAK:
A:4 bright red balls on a bit of wood posing as tomatoes.... sorry bad sense of humour.... nice composition, very red toms and the blue in the knife really seys this shot off for me. possibly HDR, the cuts on the board add something but im not sure I like it - 8

Q: Fruit or Vegetable?
by TonyT

Comment by PurpleFire:
Fruit - this is a confusing world.

The arrangement of the objects is good on this, however knive + chopping board = chopped (although I would have accepted sliced ;-) tomatoes.

The colour in the tomatoes is good, but becarefull of the blown highlights, they tend to pull the eye away.

There also looks like a bit a Noise Reduction went on there, things look a little soft and a touch too smoothed over.

Good luck with this (4)

Q: Fruit or Vegetable?
by TonyT

Comment by Jutilda:
This looks like something I've see in a food magazine. I like the texture of the chopping board. The diagonal line of the knife breaks up the horizontal line of the board and circular aspec of the tomatoes.

A Good Sense of Smell
by TonyT

Comment by Thai:
good detail

Ginger, the Cowgirl
by TonyT

Comment by kteach:
I love this one! Others do have a point that the background is pretty irrelevant to the shot, perhaps a nice desert brown would have been better? And a nice warm light, with a small reflector bouncing up under that dark hat? I still think it's a great idea! :)

Q: Fruit or Vegetable?
by TonyT

Comment by hotpasta:
fruit...

Ginger, the Cowgirl
by TonyT

Comment by posthumous:
I love this guy. The only thing that keeps this from scoring higher is the irrelevant background texture that only works against the illusion. 7

Ginger, the Cowgirl
by TonyT

Comment by bvlindalou:
you go girl...almost looks like a dog .... :)

A Good Sense of Smell
by TonyT

Comment by cabpsr:
This photo is ineffective because it gives the impression one just zoomed the camera in as far as it would go in hopes of impressing somebody with that. The picture needs to be wider and re-framed.