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Never Try a New Recipe on Company
Never Try a New Recipe on Company
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Challenge: Stock Photos: Cooking (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Nikon D3
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED
Location: kitchen of my home, La Jolla Ca 92037
Date: Jan 11, 2009
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/90
Galleries: Family, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2009

All from one image. The only artificial light was a light panel inside the pot.

Statistics
Place: 58 out of 91
Avg (all users): 5.1644
Avg (commenters): 5.6250
Avg (participants): 4.9091
Avg (non-participants): 5.2265
Views since voting: 987
Views during voting: 405
Votes: 225
Comments: 10
Favorites: 0


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01/26/2009 02:38:34 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

First off, welcome to DPC

I will attempt to give you some pointers that may or may not, be helpful to you.

This was definitely a creative shot and does actually portray the art of cooking, if you look at it for long enough. However, and this is only my opinion, I am not sure that I would buy it as a stock image for that purpose. I think the primary reason this only scored 5.16 is due to the challenge topic. In order to score well on DPC, typically the image has to really meet the challenge topic and I can see here that maybe this one did not. Yes, it definitely met the topic of cooking, no question, but I'm not so sure it met the Stock part of the challenge. (Please remember, this is only my opinion)

The image itself I find to be a bit too busy and as others have commented the arms look a bit detached. The lighting is good too. The knife in the mouth does not really work for me and just adds to the busy feeling.

Hopefully this helps in some way.

Sarah
01/21/2009 12:32:24 AM
welcome to DPChallenge! I hope it becomes an obsession for you. Katie looks like she is having fun here. I agree about the comment regarding the whisk being detached - without seeing the hand holding it, it is disconnected. cool lighting and creative crop and angle of presentation. whatever is in the pot on the right is not clearly presented.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/20/2009 05:43:10 PM
Quite a creative take on this challenge!
01/19/2009 05:49:07 PM
Lol!
01/19/2009 05:29:31 PM
I like the humour in the shot. Well lit.
01/18/2009 10:24:02 AM
good idea...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/14/2009 09:33:32 PM
Very humorous. Nice concept (not sure about the knife in the mouth though) :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/14/2009 06:15:43 PM
the slant threw me for a minute - but nice shot (and kitchen).
  Photographer found comment helpful.
01/14/2009 09:12:43 AM
There's cooking going on but this photo just doesn't do it for me.
01/14/2009 05:16:28 AM
very interesting the arm and whisk seem a bit detached to me
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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