Spam and Cabanon Fromage Délices
by bruski

Comment by crabappl3:
Greetings!

I think you have a good idea here, but your presentation, more so your background, seem to not have been taken into concideration when you composed this shot. With the DOF being as shallow as it is, your background object, with their OOF appearance make for more of a distraction then addistion to the scene. I like the use of a shallow DOF when composing a food product shot. It's widely used in cookbooks to isolate the main subject. In your shot, however, the water bottle, salt and pepper shakers, and what appears to be counter top in the background draw my eye away from your presentation.

Technically the image also seems a little soft. Not OOF soft, but just not sharp. When resizing for web, you will need to do a light sharpen afterwards to bring back the crisp edges you had at 100%. You may need to also convert the image to sRGB before uploading to the web. The color gamut for a web browser is less than PS, so if you shot in RGB mode and worked the image up in RGB mode, you may get flat colors uploading an image in RGB mode for the web. This image also may be about half a stop under exposed and lacking in some more contrast. Perhaps look at your levels and ensure that your histogram is withing range, and bump the contrast just a touch. This will give your food more appeal and make it jump off the page more.

All in all, your presentation on the plate is good. Just work on backgrounds, and your PS skills to make the image have more pop!

-danny

Spam and Cabanon Fromage Délices
by bruski

Comment by jaredldr:
The background is fairly distracting. This would have been great with a solid back ground and slightly different angle imo.

Spam and Cabanon Fromage Délices
by bruski

Comment by Gauti:
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Spam and Cabanon Fromage Délices
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Comment by Falc:
Nice composition, but that front of the plate being way out of focus is really bugging me

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Comment by longlivenyhc:
i love this shot, added it to favorites.

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Comment by stormy:
I love the feel of the photograph. The colour of the early morning sun on the plants, the mist off the hills, the sky...

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Comment by saintaugust:
nice shot, a tighter crop and a bit more contrast would work for me

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Comment by SDW:
I agree, very nice photograph.

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Comment by atsxus:
wow. that's gorgeous. Great job - wish I had an office like that.

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Comment by Kavey:
This is stronger than the others you have posted. The depth of colour in the sky is beautiful. Very rich. The main difference is that the trees that provide the static landscape form more pleasing shapes and a stronger composition than in other shots. Brave decision to place the horizon so low - it works well. I really like horizons that are not always along a thirds line.