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10/11/2004 09:57:52 AM |
| Very appetising! You may already know this but it was Salman Rushdie who came up with that advertising catchphrase! |
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10/08/2004 02:47:37 PM |
| LOvely food shot. Look how many people said they were hungry after voting on this! The dof is perfect, especially for modern menus, cookbooks and ads. What I like best about it is the two points of the crust form a perfect jaw to hold the strawberry and reinforces the desire of the viewer to bite into the sweet. The orientation of the strawberry is the only thing that could have made this better. I have to give you congrats for moving outside your comfort zone and doing something different. For such a light shot, you kept the whole outline of the sweet separate from the background. Awesome light control. |
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10/08/2004 09:33:50 AM |
Well you got an 8 from me and I think you could have got ribbon for this picture in Wacky foods competition! :)
My opinion atleast :) |
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10/08/2004 12:49:34 AM |
Well you win some - you lose some - It was something new for me (food Photo) ,and I have learned a lot from the comments for this photo , :-)
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10/08/2004 12:10:09 AM |
Should have scored higher I guess the voters were not hungry
I dont think they liked my flowers either!
Nice work here |
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10/07/2004 11:37:31 PM |
| This is a really good shot, but I was so tired of judging photos of food. I had to come back to this one. I think the subject is a little unimaginative for this challenge, but very well taken. |
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10/07/2004 11:11:46 PM |
| Makes me hungry! The splash of color really grabs my attention. 8. |
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10/07/2004 10:59:10 PM |
| very nice composition.. the strawberry almost looks like an upside down heart by its positioning... it makes me hungry :) |
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10/07/2004 06:36:01 PM |
| after reviewing my voting i am changing my vote (up don't worry) and its because when i looked @ it the first time i must of been alseep, its a great picture and the compostition and image are wonderful, 7 |
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10/07/2004 01:43:46 PM |
| Okay, I'll start my diet tomorrow! Nice point of view for this image, though perhaps a little bright/light. |
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10/07/2004 12:30:15 AM |
| love the colors, lighting, and subject. it's very inviting. don't like the shallow dof, and probably would like the composition more if it had been rotated slightly to the left. |
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10/06/2004 11:45:00 PM |
| The high key looking photo is not my favorite thing but I like the way you did this one. You have good detail in your focus area and I like that. The light seems a little harsh on the strawberry. Maybe you could tone it down somehow. Great work! This one should do very well. 8 |
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10/06/2004 10:05:00 PM |
| Lovely food shot. I like the soft lighting, excellent use of DOF, focused on the strawberry. Interesting masters entry, but I like that it is not a landscape or a portrait. |
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10/06/2004 08:30:51 PM |
| Nice and sharp and I like the white background, gives it a minimalist feel 8 |
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10/06/2004 03:00:24 PM |
| I think this might have benefitted from just a bit more DOF. It seems to go too soft too quick on the right. |
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10/06/2004 02:34:46 PM |
| Could be more saturated. It's so very light. Or maybe background should be darker? Really naughty ;) |
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10/06/2004 04:16:59 AM |
I love ya picture but there is one problem :(
I have to go up the road and buy one of those - ya making me hungry |
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10/05/2004 11:44:54 PM |
| 7. A great studio shot. Subject matter is a bit boring but the red strawberry is almost erotic for some reason. I love the DOF. |
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10/05/2004 09:04:42 PM |
| That does look delicious. But a few little things grabbed my attention, one the strawberry is upside down to me. If it was turned over it would look more like a little heart. The white background is very nice but the shallow DOF bothers me for some reason. If it was just a bit deeper it might appeal to me more. I started at a 7 but am raising to a 8 |
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10/05/2004 03:04:43 PM |
| Wow, this really makes me want to run to a bakery right now. Great detail & lighting. |
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10/05/2004 11:18:41 AM |
| What a treat to have after photographing it. |
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10/05/2004 11:11:25 AM |
| Looks yummy! Nice exposure - expecially given the anout of white in the frame. Could use a bit more DoF, but maybe not possible. |
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10/05/2004 12:25:46 AM |
| Yum! The whipped cream on the right side looks a little burned out, otherwise a delicious photo |
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10/04/2004 11:05:38 PM |
| An 'in your face / in your mouth" view? I don't think I'm finding this very appealing looking as I don't like the point of view. It's got great amount of detail, but for one, the DOF is too narrow and I think you should have gotten all of it in focus. Secondly, I would have preferred some kind of contrasting background, either in color and/or another lesser subject. As it is, all this white just hurts my eyes. 5 |
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10/04/2004 08:36:39 PM |
| Tasty! This shot is simple, but technically well done. The lighting and focus are good, though a slightly deeper DOF would have kept the left side of the dessert in focus... but that'd be the only change I'd make on it. |
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10/04/2004 07:13:04 PM |
| not a particularly stunning subject but professionally presented and effective as I am now going to the pastry shop to look for something like this! |
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10/04/2004 06:34:27 PM |
| Very good! Makes me hungry! I can not vote. |
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10/04/2004 05:33:53 PM |
| Food pictures go from good to great when they make you want to eat the subject. That requires a tasty subject, a technically superb shot, good composition without any distractions, and of course, a clearly focused point of entry. 10. |
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10/04/2004 03:48:27 PM |
| I look at this over and over again. I do not like the dof because it fades into a blur faster on the right than on the left. The strawberry is on the money in texture and exposure but the image does not entrain my attention. Yet it does have a very pleasing center with shade, colot and textures. Bumping up to 6 |
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10/04/2004 02:39:48 PM |
| Could eat that, but not special. I can go to my local supermarket and buy one, take a pic and score 4.0 as usual with it. Just doesn't work. |
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10/04/2004 01:17:05 PM |
| Mmmmmmm. yummy. . .and very naughty. I like this picture a lot, but I'm wondering if the subject being white-ish, if a more contrasting background would have worked better? It's a great picture though. 7 |
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10/04/2004 12:36:43 PM |
| The pastry seems a bit lost on the white background, may have been better on something else. The strawberry shows nice focus but the glare is a little distracting. |
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10/04/2004 10:42:03 AM |
| Yum!! Very nice shot here, excellent lighting and DOF used to get an all white background. Might have liked the strawberry to have been rotated 180 degrees to make it look more like a loveheart. 9 |
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10/04/2004 05:12:30 AM |
| Nice dof. It looks so good I can almost taste it. 7 |
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10/04/2004 02:17:55 AM |
great food shot
I want to eat it
nice composition and DOF
like the pale colours with red accent |
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10/04/2004 01:45:31 AM |
| Oh that looks yummy and makes me want to go find something in the kitchen to eat. Very good application of DOF to emphasize the three main textures: puff pastry, cream filling and the strawberry. Lighting seems a bit bright to me and contrast is a bit weak and undefined. 7 |
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10/03/2004 09:54:41 PM |
Great, now I gotta go get dessert!
Dunno exactly what it is, but it looks tasty - 8 |
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10/03/2004 07:42:59 PM |
| I really want to taste this. Very chic and in style with the current short DOF in gourmet photography. |
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10/03/2004 04:55:51 PM |
| It isn't very high on my WOW factor, but I'd sure scarf it down in a heartbeat! All in all it's a good shot...thanks! |
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10/03/2004 03:29:20 PM |
| Nice advertisement type shot: The strawberry is a bit distracting and the focal point is off; also, the white background is a bothersome, |
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10/03/2004 01:50:04 PM |
| I like the way the subject that you are focused on is off center in the picture but I would like to see a deeper DOF and maybe a little more color in the strawberry. Otherwise a very pleasing picture. |
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10/03/2004 08:49:40 AM |
| Yummy. I'd like to see a deeper DOF, and a more contrasting background, but nicely done. |
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10/03/2004 08:22:28 AM |
| This is going to have a hard time against some of the other entries in the challenge. Good luck. |
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10/03/2004 08:20:33 AM |
lol very nice photo and interesting title... i love the change of focus through the varying depths of field and the texture/ lighting... all that is excellent :D the only possible thing to change is possibly to the right of the sweet.... there forms a slight shaddow and that could possibly be cloned out...
however in case you havent gathered yet.. these are all only possibilities... and im not too sure that they would improve the photo though its a comment that may or may not help but its a consideration none the less...
hope it helped -_-' congrats on a wonderful photo though |
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10/03/2004 06:46:59 AM |
| This shot doesn't really do a lot for me, but is well taken, evenly lit, effective background, good use of dof. There's a bit too much glare on the strawberry which you could have removed with a polariser. 6 |
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10/03/2004 03:47:46 AM |
| Great perspective and the red really adds life to this image. |
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10/02/2004 02:51:37 PM |
| Seems to be oversaturated... |
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10/02/2004 12:33:16 AM |
This looks like a magazine image its so well done
You have shown the different textures, pastry, cream and Icing sugar very well
Nice work and yummy as well! I could eat that right now! Did you make it? |
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10/01/2004 09:51:31 PM |
| looks a little to hot or over expoed, but I do like the DOF and composition |
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10/01/2004 08:25:44 PM |
| I think your shallow DOF is working against you in this shot, and it might have been a boost to have a complimentary color for the BG. 5 |
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10/01/2004 06:08:12 PM |
| Great dof, light, colour. Love it. |
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10/01/2004 05:56:44 PM |
| Yummy! Reminds me of an entry I made some time ago. I would like more DOF but it works this way. Geez, I'm so hungry now :) |
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10/01/2004 05:04:09 PM |
| This shot makes me hungry! The only think I disslike about this shot is that its too white. I thought at first it would do well against a black background, but that would cancel the pristine effect it creates and void the "nice" part of the title. 6 |
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10/01/2004 03:52:11 PM |
| this is interesting.....It is very stark looking, but the strawberry adds visual appeal to me |
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10/01/2004 02:47:08 PM |
| irresistable - captures the lightness of the food, could have used a little more DOF - makes me sad to be on the Atkins right now |
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10/01/2004 02:42:57 PM |
| I think the key may have gone a bit too high... Looks like it's dancing on the edge of texture loss near where the DOF cuts off on the right. The off-center placement of the overall shape (not the strawberry) feels a bit awkward and out of balance. |
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10/01/2004 02:35:21 PM |
| I think a black background would have served up this beauty better than the white. |
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10/01/2004 02:23:34 PM |
| I really don't like the shallow depth of field here. Maybe just bit too extreme. Not sure if you're going for a high-key look or it just seems a tad overexposed as well (4). |
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10/01/2004 12:14:25 PM |
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Message edited by author 2005-07-12 08:15:52. |
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10/01/2004 12:01:54 PM |
| Got a craving ... went down to the cafeteria to look for exactly this. If this were an ad, you were successful in enticing your customers. Food photography is very difficult for me to achieve. |
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10/01/2004 12:00:51 PM |
| Damn you, I drewled so much over my keyboard that I had to get my self a new one. Looks real tasty. |
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10/01/2004 11:16:43 AM |
| An attractive image to me, appealing, but no WOW factor. Could be used in advertising with some more empty space around it. Technically I cannot suggest any improvements. Nice clean background. Good focus on the strawberry, nice depth of field and blur, good soft light without overexposed white parts. |
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10/01/2004 09:30:52 AM |
| I have found doing food photography to be very difficult, so I am always impressed by people who can do it successfully. I think you have done this here with the pastry looking very appetizing. Your presentation, using not other distracting elemnts lets me focus on the subject with the berry being the predominant visual draw. The hot spot that forms a ring around the seed on the left side of the berry is one small distraction. I like the use of shallow DOF here. nicely done. |
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10/01/2004 09:26:33 AM |
| I can almost taste it! very sweet pic - well done :) |
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10/01/2004 09:05:25 AM |
| i think more dof would have been a little better - there would have been more in focus to look at ... the strawberry alone doesn't hold my attention very long. |
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10/01/2004 07:36:01 AM |
| Yum! That looks delicious. I think to finish this shot off nicely you sould dodge around the edges to make the background white rather than grey. Technically good, but nothing that makes the shot stand out amongst the crowd. 6 |
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10/01/2004 04:09:48 AM |
| Don't get the naughty part but nice. |
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10/01/2004 01:21:51 AM |
| This is wonderful how it is a white on white concept, with the great contrast of the red. I like it. |
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10/01/2004 01:21:37 AM |
To me, this is missing that certain "wow" factor (to borrow from a DPC "standard"), that gives me incentive to score higher. the narrow DOF is a little distracting in this case, especially because of the hard lighting on the right hand side. The off centered composition also doesn't work to me, since the way you've posed the pastry already suggests a lack of symmetry, which, if used in a centered comp, would have worked quite nice. Also, somehow, the color just seems a little flat. the whipped cream in which the strawberry rests just doesn't stand out the way it could to make the statement I feel that I want it to make.
Still, it's a great attempt, and now I'm craving yummy pastries! |
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