Leggo my Eggoby
MonaLeeComment by ericwoo: Hey there from the Critique Club
First of all, welcome to DPC!!! I see that this is your first challenge, so I want to be the first to welcome you to the good times and the heartaches of this site. I think you can gain a lot of valuable knowledge on this site. Just keep shooting away and submitting your work to the praises and criticisms of others. I think that this is the way we learn best.
Camera Work/Technical: Excellent focus the produces a very crisp image. I also like your depth of field choice here. Your white balance is also spot-on, thus yielding the exact colors that the eye expects to see.
Lighting: Too harsh. That is the downfall of this image. I think that the overall image looks a bit washed out and is lacking some much needed contrast. I hope you don't mind, but I took this version of your image and made a few adjustments. I took the highlights down in Photoshop, as well as gave it a nice s-curve adjustment layer. This is how I would have processed it:
If you'd rather your copyrighted work not be re-displayed, please let me know and I'll be happy to take it down.
Composition/Content: I will have to disagree with pamelasue in that I don't think any more of the waffle is necessary. I think the composition that you put together looks just as it should. The fork is a bit centered, but it really works in this particular capture. The fork works very nicely to pull the eye into the image and the waffles serve as boundaries to keep it in and flowing around.
My Opinion: This is the beginning of an excellent shot. It it were a little underexposed your score would have surely soared. 5.3 is a very respectable score, but this one had a much higher potential. I hope this helps.
Eric
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