The Image: Having won a blue in the FEAST Challenge, the elusive food photography success was now mine! Thought I would have another go. Went ane bought the food this time, and no, I didn't feed it to the dog! Our daughter Sarah will be eating this. It's BEEF AND BLACKBEAN SAUCE.
Used a 50mm F1.8 Nikon lens to shoot this and hand held it in available light.
The Edit: A lot of subtle massaging on this one using adjustment layers and masks. Cloned out some dust. I adjusted colour, levels, curves, a layer of noise reduction or two, an adjustment for sharpness...just working instintively. I also added a Gaussian Blur adjustment layer and mask for the softer focus in some parts of the image.
I then did a black and white layer which I pulled the levels down on, then added a layer mask to get the slight vignette to finish it all off.
The Prediction: Maybe 6.8??? Is that ambitious for this? Let's see...
Post: yes, my prediction was ambitious, but there are some wonderful photos in the top 10 just above me...well done everyone!
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This is Kari Ann, greetings from the Critique Club:
composition: A beautifully presented piece. The plates are all placed very well in the focus points of the picture.
color:Strong and alluring. The deep greens in the bowl and the red place-mat really work amazingly together
contrast: very good contrast, just enough to set the bowls of food out from the table below, but not too much so they are disjointed
focus: precise focus, I love how much detail can be seen in the food, its amazing
depth of field: the addition of the blur makes the piece even more interesting, adding that little bit of DOF really adds more emphasis to the food being showcased
lighting: lighting is very well done, bringing all the main characters into the light
other: gosh, this was just too yummy- i mean, fun to critique. You should be very proud of such an image, and
great job on such a great finish in the challenge. I can't think of anything for you to do to improve on it.
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