Frecnh catalina dressing, dead fly, child's silverware, placemat, macro handheld, light is northern window on a cloudy day and incandescent room lights on low. Slight saturation and hue shanges, sharpening and cropping with a tilt.
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It's orange, but it's out of focus. I'm also not happy with the angle, it's too ackward. It you are going to break a rule, REALLY break it so that it doesn't just look like a mistake, which this does to me. Sorry to be harsh, but there it is.
The central point of the shot that is the fly is out of focus, while the table cloth behind the bowl is sharp so you are a bit back focused. I'm guessing you had both filtered natural light with its blue color and incandessant light with its yellow color because the light seems to be messing with the colors, creating weird reflections that puzzle the eye.
Really, sir... They don't eat much... Back to the photo... I think it would have work better with an uni color background. The bowl centered doesn't really improve the look of the photo. But it is just my opinion. 7
Blurry, bad reflections on the silverware. The whole spoon should be in the shot as well as the fork, or crop the fork closer to match the knife. The different lighting on the knife and fork is distracting. Score: 3
Heheh, I hate when that happens. Nice idea. The orange on the purple and ivory tablecloth is a good color choice. But the photo comes across more like a snapshot to me. I think trying to get a sharper focus would be one thing that would help. Another thing might be trying some different angles or arrangements of the utensils so that it's less of a documentary shot and has a little more drama (arg, I hate drama, but in a photo I think it's fun). Maybe a lower angle where you're beginning to peer into the bowl and the fly carcass is just in view over the rim and the spoon is angled so it leads your eye to the fly, or something like that. Just a thought. Thanks for the chuckle and momentary grossout :)
This would have done much better if you'd have got the fly in focus. Notice how the background cloth is in better focus than th main subject? That is because the camera was fooled into thinking that is what should have been in focus. You want to make sure the thing of most interest in the image is what is in best focus.
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