Vermicelle
by kasaba

Comment:
I like the background spotlight that gives a halo to your subject. I feel like the whole image has a little too much brown, though. The flower is a nice tough and is well-placed, although I feel it should be a brighter yellow. It feels like you left too much room all around the edges, especially on the left side and bottom.

Notes of Sweetness
by CNovack

Comment:
Overall the image seems a bit dark. The scroll seems a little distracting and perhaps should be more blurry -- it also goes right through your subject and should have been laid so it's more up-and-down.

Simply Luscious (some assembly required)
by Bear_Music

Comment:
You did a nice job of lighting the fruit to capture the texture and color variation. The most interest part is in the center and if you zoomed in close to that it seems like it would greatly increase the impact.

Single 'n' sweet
by damoninja

Comment:
I really like that you took a more artistic approach and didn't just make a pretty dessert and present it formally. For this one I would prefer the contrast not be dialed up quite as high but I like how it gives your pink cupcake a more sinister look! The cupcake seems to disappear into the background on the upper left corner, and if the entire left side did that it would have been nice to see that in the frame.

Pretty Please..
by FtWorthphotog

Comment:
The eye-level viewing angle and conservative cropping make the presentation very plain. It also feels like too much of it is in shadow and could do with more even lighting.

You CAN have it and EAT it too!!!
by maz001

Comment:
You could crop this much closer on the sides and bottom, even to the point of losing some of the cake, without losing context. The presentation doesn't quite match the concept: the concept is whimsical but the presentation is a little plain, with everything evenly spaced and centered.

Berries and Kiwi
by Lawton

Comment:
It looks delicious! Overall it's nicely lit and photographed and has good colors, but the presentation is fairly plain. The pattern in the wallpaper only serves to distract from the subject.

Shot of Bourbon with Grilled Peach and Macerated Blueberries
by tvsometime

Comment:
The cropping feels like the borders have been shrunk down to just barely fit all of the elements into the frame and no more. The arrangement, the viewing angle, the DOF and the cropping are all very conservative.

A Girl's Favorite
by jusjoshing

Comment:
I like the concept and the combination of red strawberry and lips. I feel like a little too much of the image is blown out and loses its details.

Wimbledon's Smashing Treat
by Kroburg

Comment:
I really like the concept of freezing the motion of the cream as it strikes the strawberries and it's one of my favorite ideas in the challenge. However, the choice of a fairly low viewing angle, formal upright presentation and wide crop rob the concept of a lot of its energy. If you tilted it about 45 degrees to the right and cropped it tight to just the strawberries it would have lots of action. The goblet and the platter are not the interesting parts of the image and they should be eliminated almost entirely. Also, it may be my monitor or the background but the white balance looks a little too yellow.