Thanks for your comments guys, I realy apreciate it.
In retrospect I'm pretty pleased with this even if it scored badly. I'm still a newbe and I think I've learned a lot, particularly that I'm realy **** at lighting; something that would have improved this picture a lot.
Clearly the thing to work on is lighting, particularly to bring out contrast and focus the eye on a specific item. Perhaps a different take would be for light reflected of the knife to light up Gruyere, maybe I'll experiment. Any excuse to buy more cheese ;-)
I attempted to do something like this for a challenge a while ago back, but abandoned the effort because I couldn't quite get it right, so I know this is somewhat difficult - you did a great job pulling this off. I think a different background would have made this a more eye-catching image, because as it is, the region in the knife is kind of lost amidst the background map.
The Swiss map makes a decent background, but the reflection of Gruyere in the knife was fantastic, too bad one of them had to be inverted. Picture could have been a little sharper and had a bit more contrast.
i love that you refleted a region map on the kniife. Uping the saturation would have goiven this pohoto a bit more oomph;. The concept however, is excellent!
I didn't like this picture that much. It kind of seemed like the cheese was sort of wrapped up in some sort of package. I don't like how the reflection appears in the knife it makes it kind of hard to tell the knife is really a knife.
I didn't love this picture because the handle looks like it's part of the background. Are you trying to make a certain place on the knife reflect? Intresting..
There's a little too much noise and it wouldn't hurt for the picture to be sharper. I don't understand the whole reflecting map thing but it's interesting. I think your knife is upside down.
I like the map background and shadow on the knife. Good composition. If the cheese had been a bit crisper or a bit more contrast (brighter?) I would have scored it higher.
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