Cherry Pie Filling....With a Twist
by newsjunkie93

Comment:
Simple is good! Delicious is good! Composition is good! Technical quality is good! White background is good! This image exceeds the sum of it's parts and is one of the best of this challenge!

French Onion Soup
by notesinstones

Comment:
Often a soft focused foreground does not work very well but it does in this image. Noise reduced perfectly without the "smoothies" and the technical quality of this image is superb. Yellow seems a little overdone to me but unsure that it is not absolutely right for this composition.

Dynamite Salsa
by cheekymunky

Comment:
Wonderfully captured, excellent stop action image. Beautifully done in every way. One of the best of this challenge.

Casella Torrido
by youngnova

Comment:
This could be right out of the Denny's Restaurant menu. Excellent image, great composition, decent lighting, good combination of colors and a fine well thought out arrangement. One of the best of the challenge.

vanilla sky pudding
by goc

Comment:
It is interesting what you tried to do with the color. Unfortunately, the reflections are more distracting than supportive of the image, especially the red speck on the far left and the blueish reflection on the far right. You might consider cropping the later two things out of the composition.

Salade de jambon cru aux champignons
by Montague

Comment:
Nice arrangement. The way you use shallow DOF to draw the eye to the sharp focused meat yet convey the idea that everything else is supplimental to it is a wonderfully accomplished even if that was not your intent. It is a subtle touch that makes this a good image. On my monitor, which is recently calibrated, makes the composition look a little too dark in some facing areas. A soft light from the front left side would make it look better.

Fresh Dinner
by Buttox07

Comment:
Most viewers will likely expect recipe images to be delicious looking foods arranged like the pictures you see in a Denny's Restaurant menu. This does not and coupled with poor focus will likely garner it a low score. A ground level perspective that is a closer, shows more of the predator and in better focus would score much better.

Backed in hell
by Hafi

Comment:
Interesting concept and choice of coals color to support the idea. Some voters may feel there is too much black on the top of the frame and that the soft focused coal in front of the bun is more distracting than supportive of the theme.

Food or Foot?
by nessnaj

Comment:
Beautifully composed and tack sharp focus. Colors go together exceptionally well with the blue rimmed plate. Great solid black background.

Blueberry Muffins, taste as great as they look
by jaaad

Comment:
The purpose of a good foods shot is to make the subject look delicious.. this closeup achieves that goal. The lighting is perfect and the general technical quality is superb. Mmmmm... looks good! Though not necessarily in razor sharp focus I'd prefer to see the foreground muffin be in a little sharper focus than it is, but that might not bother most voters.