Start by striping plate with chocolate sauce. Use one can of spam. Do not break up. Leave as a whole piece. Top with cottage cheese, strawberries, green onions and mustard.
Garnish the area around the spam with radish slices. Dab mustard on each slice of radish for presentation. Sprinkle green onions around dish as well. Garnish some more with whole radishes and strawberries.
Serve at room temperature.
Enjoy :)
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You've almost got it. The stuff in the background [including the label on the water bottle] really take away though. Needs some better lighting as well. The presentation of the 'meal' is good, though. Nice choice of plates.
Awww, gee whiz, do the French even know about Spam. Horrors! Alors! Away with this dish at once! Meanwhile, even though the background is a touch busy and maybe the photography could be a touch crisper, it has to get an 8.
An attractive looking dish with nice colors, and indeed a wacky combination of flavours. Just the dish would have been enough, would have made it simpler and better, the background and bottle is not needed. If you want to use a limited depth of field then at least the focus should be more to the front.
Interesting arrangement. Would love to see this with more of the items on the plate in focus and taking up more space with a less cluttered background. Items in the background dont seem to fit with the foreground ...my 2c.
I think you have a good idea here, but your presentation, more so your background, seem to not have been taken into concideration when you composed this shot. With the DOF being as shallow as it is, your background object, with their OOF appearance make for more of a distraction then addistion to the scene. I like the use of a shallow DOF when composing a food product shot. It's widely used in cookbooks to isolate the main subject. In your shot, however, the water bottle, salt and pepper shakers, and what appears to be counter top in the background draw my eye away from your presentation.
Technically the image also seems a little soft. Not OOF soft, but just not sharp. When resizing for web, you will need to do a light sharpen afterwards to bring back the crisp edges you had at 100%. You may need to also convert the image to sRGB before uploading to the web. The color gamut for a web browser is less than PS, so if you shot in RGB mode and worked the image up in RGB mode, you may get flat colors uploading an image in RGB mode for the web. This image also may be about half a stop under exposed and lacking in some more contrast. Perhaps look at your levels and ensure that your histogram is withing range, and bump the contrast just a touch. This will give your food more appeal and make it jump off the page more.
All in all, your presentation on the plate is good. Just work on backgrounds, and your PS skills to make the image have more pop!
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