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Melting Marshmallows
Melting Marshmallows
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sticky (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Canon
Location: St. Clair Shores, MI
Date: Dec 17, 2006
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 sec
Galleries: Food and Drink, Textures
Date Uploaded: Dec 17, 2006

 Marshmallows melting in a pot ready for making chrstmas cookies.

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Statistics
Place: 99 out of 100
Avg (all users): 3.5337
Avg (commenters): 2.7619
Avg (participants): 3.5882
Avg (non-participants): 3.5118
Views since voting: 1044
Views during voting: 290
Votes: 178
Comments: 24
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/30/2006 04:20:07 PM
Hey there from the Critique Club

The first thing that strikes me about your image is the size. Smaller images always get hammered by the voters. There are some tutorials available to help with properly sizing images for the challenges. If you use PaintSHop, check HERE, and if you use PhotoSHop, check HERE.

Get this sizing issue handled, and I believe that your scores will fare much, much better. As far as the quality of the image goes, I'll echo the opinions of other voters that offered comments. There really is no focal point of the image, thus nothing really grabs the eye to offer any appeal. I can tell that it is sticky, but, without the title, I really couldn't see what it was. Work on your focus, as well as getting those images as large as possible.

Eric
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2006 12:37:02 PM
Holy Crap this did terrible! This goes to show you that hurrying and submitting something at the last second dont fair all that well.

I pinky swear that I'll try to improve.... besides you can only go up from here...right?
 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/24/2006 08:23:23 AM
Looks extremely unappetizing. What are the black things? Overall, not a pleasing composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/23/2006 06:32:31 PM
Honestly, it's just not appealing. There's no real focal point to look at, and without the title, I wouldn't have known what this was. It's also sized way below the allowable dimensions. I'm afraid it just has a look as though it was taken with a cell phone camera, or something like that.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/23/2006 04:57:49 PM
Missing the wow factor - but good luck
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/23/2006 04:24:29 PM
White balamce looks off on my screen; some of the marshmallows have a pink tinge and there are pink spots on the spoon.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/23/2006 03:39:57 PM
a bit blurry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2006 10:23:08 PM
this point of view had potential...but as is - there is no focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/22/2006 02:51:48 PM
Small jpeg... :(
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/21/2006 07:52:51 AM
THis is out of focus and really hard to tell what it is. At first I thought it was cheesy potatoes.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/20/2006 04:12:38 PM
Good idea for "sticky", it does look sticky. It would be nice if the image were larger (you can go up to 640 pixels on the longest side, or 640 px square). I like the colour of the marshmallows. However, as it is, it is not a winning shot. It looks a bit blurry, and it doesn't have all that much of interest in it overall. I like how you got the pan so nice and black. ~4
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 11:27:50 PM
I'm sorry but this looka alarmingly similar to tuna noodle cassorle with extra cumin, maybe becuse it's so out of foucus a can't distinguish anything.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 07:05:00 PM
the image is too small to evaluate!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 07:55:02 AM
Looks more like potato salad in all actuality.
The challenge allowed up to 640 pixels on the long side, and at 300, this falls very short and will hurt your overall score.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/19/2006 12:22:05 AM
I am sure that is very sticky, but it looks so unappetizing ...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 10:06:37 PM
Quite out of focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 05:33:24 PM
White balance looks off (shouldn't they be white?). Also image could be larger.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 02:25:03 PM
Be sure to use the full size of image allowed. This is too small to judge properly.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 12:55:55 PM
sorry image appears to be out of focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 12:23:10 PM
This photo meets challenge but it is to dark, out of focus, to small and the colors are off.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 09:54:57 AM
too small ... not very sharp ... sorry
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 04:52:31 AM
Ooohhh...now that is sticky!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 03:49:52 AM
Your picture is way too small.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/18/2006 12:22:02 AM
too small and blurry...cell phone quality
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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