Chocolate Mexicano
by Germaine

Comment:
I'm a sucker for chocolate and milk. This I gave a 7. I'll try to justify why. Using the black back drop was a great idea, but I thought it back fired a bit when it came to showing the contrast in the chocolate itself. In fact, for me, the chocolate almost blended in with the back drop. The lighting is pretty good and so is the composition. I'm personally attracted to colours and contrast. So that's where you lost a lot of points (when the chocolate wasn't as presentable). Perhaps if you placed the chocolate on a small matt ceramic plate to bring out it's colour it would have worked better. Overall though, I'd say this is definitely an above average shot.

French Onion Soup
by notesinstones

Comment:
I was toggling between a 6 and 7 for this one, but since I've a sucker for food, it was a 7. I do like the composition very much. The lighting gives it such a great atmosphere. I just think there's too much border and the tray (I'm assuming) that the coup is on doesn't work so well. It does look like it comes from a culinary magazine though. Great use of the onions as well. The dried oregano may have been too much.

Food or Foot?
by nessnaj

Comment:
Allow me to say this is extravagant! What I love about it is the design and creativity. Creativity wins the heart of most people. If you didn't put in a caption, I probably would have said it was a slider though. I gave this a 7 just because I'm a bit picky on the lighting (I'm not great at all though). I think if you had another plate that was more simple, I'd say it would be much more interesting. Just because the focal point is a tid bit distracting.

Dynamite Salsa
by cheekymunky

Comment:
Compared to many others, you made this shot stand out very much. I originally gave this a 7, but I'll bump you up to an 8. You chose well on contrast. Great use of shutter speed and lighting. Heck your composition is great. I'll change this to a 9. It's almost flawless, it really is. I guess what made me not give you a 10 is because the white above the hand is just too much. Best of luck in getting a ribbon. I'm routing for you at least.

THE egg
by enasniog

Comment:
There are a lot of eggs in this challenge. You could have seriously pulled this off, but the picture is quite noisy and a background contrast would have made the egg more prominent. The composition of the egg and the lighting is great, but the contrast isn't great, so because of that and the noise, I gave you a 5.

Dont Cry
by sodastreamer

Comment:
This isn't a culinary challenge, so I won't speak about your diced onions. The composition is alright, but I would have thought having the other half onion a bit further away might be better. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with the picture, but something isn't work well and it throws me off quite a bit. Maybe it's because it looks like you've got a camera flash going on.
I must admit the frames should have been a lot thinner. It's too thick and it causes quite a lot of distraction to the whole image. So I threw you a 5.

Pork Chop Thursdays
by MidnightVoodoo

Comment:
The date just threw me off. If you could have, you should have taken out the date. I would have given it a 6. Also, maybe focusing more on the pork chop rather than the onion would have been better, at least that's my opinion on it. So composition wise, it's not working too well, but it's not horrible either. It's just good. I'll applaud you on the lighting though it looks good like that. For that I give you a 5.

Sprinkles
by missinseattle

Comment:
Oh dear, it's like over exposure on this. Honestly, if you don't mind me being blunt, it hurts my eyes. The sprinkles contrast in white is great, but I think the white is over done. Say if you could have taken a shot of 3 of them together showing a bit of skin of the actual dessert, I think it would have been more appealing. Your focus is good, but the lighting may have been a bit too strong as well. It's a job well done, but it's on overload, so I gave this one a 5.

Fresh Dinner
by Buttox07

Comment:
Too brutal for me, but throwing that thought away and judging it like every other photo, I like the concept. Natural, but darn it freaks me out quite a bit. You've captured the mood of the predator very, unbelievably well. The picture itself is very blurry on its own merits. Maybe if you sharpened it a bit and added some saturation to the existing colours it would have stood out very well.
I'd say if you got this picture at a different angle, like at the bird's height rather than from your view, it would have been spectacular. Oh! Also, if placed off centre as well, it would have given it a more intriguing shot. So 5 for this shot.

Add Water
by karmat

Comment:
The composition for me works terribly well in this. The major downfall for me is the lighting. I'm not sure if it's the one from your camera or not, but it turns the picture off for me and upsets the whole atmosphere. I'm not sure if the entire setup puts of the picture as well, but I would have loved to see more contrasting colours to make it more appealing. It could be because I associate tea with happy, soothing times and this gives me more of a depressive/dull atmosphere. So a 5 it is.