Black & White(thinking) & Red (causes suffering) all over
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Comment by Simplicity:
wonderful clarity and composition...nicely done...10.

Black & White(thinking) & Red (causes suffering) all over
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Comment by Natator:
Excellent. Good strong message and very good composition. I like the way the pile extends out of view.

Black & White(thinking) & Red (causes suffering) all over
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Comment by mizzdragonfly:
Very Retro!

Black & White(thinking) & Red (causes suffering) all over
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Comment by crabappl3:
This is excellent. You have gotten the message across, loud and clear! 9 -danny

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
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Comment by photographist:
Yum! Nice interpretation and great use of color. The foreground garlic seems a bit burnt out though.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
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Comment by Melly8522:
You have a great picture to represent the book title. Kinda blurry but my vote is 10.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
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Comment by tfaust:
Great set up, I like the background color. Good composition and good idea. My only pick would be the garlic blends into the tablecloth a little too much, might have been better to rest it on the tomatoes or peppers? Very nice work.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
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Comment by e301:
Bloody hell, someone wrote a whole book about Salsa? A WHOLE book?

Reasonable shot - but overlit, I think: you've taken almost all the shadowsing away, and it's shadowing that gives depth and texture and the third dimension to photography. There is SOME, of course, but it's very slight, very (too) subtle. Still, at least you didn;t take it with a full frontal flash. Slightly over-exposed on the garlic and the cloth too - you could have taken at least half a stop off I think. Pretty enough composition, but I find no excitement in it I'm afraid. 6

Wine is A Gracious Creature
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Comment by Quadrajet:
Greetings from the Critique Club.

I have to say that this shot was one of my favorites…a classic still life image. There’s obviously a lot of attention to detail in this image, from the beautiful rich, burgundy background to the (what appears to be) authentic wine cask the subjects are sitting on. The highlights in the stem of the glass are wonderful, they make it stand out so strongly against the dark background.

The only thing I could possibly critique in this shot is the fact that the highlights on the bottle and glass seem ever so slightly hot, but not to the point of being blown out. I realize that when dealing with glass, slight hotspots are impossible to overcome but that’s about all I can see that is remotely distracting (to me). Some may feel the corkscrew shouldn’t be cropped, but I feel it works well as it is.

This is a fantastic shot that in my opinion, deserved a higher placing.

Preserving the Taste. The Secrets to Great Salsa
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Comment by SnowyOwl:
Mmmm .... making me hungry!