PBJ
by flaherma

Comment:

Originally posted by booboo_goon: I'm not sure what this tells me, random placement of subjects or there's a narrative? Peanut is nuts for strawberry and jam? Lacks narrative for me, doesn't particularly feel like any still life paintings I've seen?

Peanut Butter and Jelly. It's an American thing ;-)

soon to be brown
by Abra

Comment:
You asked for it, you got it ;-)

Piece by Piece
by clickodak

Comment:
Interesting. I think i have sees similar image on some Youtube videos of her songs. It could have been the same song. It would have been an interesting entry in Hearty Fun, as well, if setup shots were part of it.

On the photographic aspects. If i was to shoot this in color, i would have added a tad more exposure, and a small a boost of saturation and/or contrast. Other that that, lovely shot.

Soup Stuff
by DCrest01

Comment:
Nice soft lighting full of contrast.

Not fond of the scene, though. Maybe if you loose the mini cart together with the lids and placed the soup ingredients tighter together. Or, if you go with the cart to keep the supermarket style, maybe overload the cart with the ingredients. I don't really know. :-)

Entangled
by nikkic

Comment:
This looks very much like my original idea for this challenge. No entanglement was involved and the hero was an eggplant (aubergine). I couldn't find decent looking veggies in my local grocery stores and markets and went with something totally different.

BTW, what kind of fruit/vegetable is that?

The Day Everything Stopped
by grahamgator

Comment:
Two blue ribbons in a row. Congratulations.
Excellent images, both of them.

Fruit Rainbow
by VitaminB

Comment:
Interesting take on the subject. Solid photography work, too, but the main light needs a bit softening, IMO.

PBJ
by flaherma

Comment:
Nice and cute. Solid photography work, too. It looks a bit tilted to the right, but, on the other hand, the jam label looks perfectly straight. So, it could be me, not the image.
Personally, i would have swapped the two jars. Give the extremely shallow DoF, the PB is not recognizable in the back (unless you recognize the brand, which i don't). I looks that, if swapped, the strawberries on the jam label would be recognizable enough.

Apples
by Cyrilda

Comment:
Simple and clean. Nice shot. Definitely in my top 5. maybe even in my top 3.
The red apple is a nice touch. The whole shot works much better (to me), if it is placed closer to the top third.

three for a buck
by jmritz

Comment:
Nice combination of the supermarket and the still life parts of the challenge, but...

... the subject matter simply begs for color. Going with color might have backfired as well. The scene looks poorly lit, so high ISO was probably used. High ISO + color = nasty noise. Maybe the the lighting was too diverse in color and quality, which can also be an issue if you go color.
... the image is not straight and it distracts me a lot.
... the image lacks some overall sharpness.