Panini and a coffee anyone?
by jkirkby

Comment by salmiakki:
Greetings from the Critique Club

First of all welcome to DPC and congratulations on achieving such a good score for your first challenge.

First of all, I think the composition is good, although as others have mentioned, the fork is a little bit distracting and is probably superfluous. Your choice of DOF works well here too as does the lighting. I am not 100% sold on the wooden table as a background, I think it makes the colours of the actually food look a little bit drab.

The other thing from my perspective, is that I do not really think this image meets the challenge topic. The challenge was to create an image that portrayed the art of cooking and this does not do that in my opinion. I think it is excellent for a stock photo portraying food, but not for cooking. Maybe I am too pedantic, but if I was a magazine editor who was looking to buy a cooking shot, this would certainly not be it. Thus, I think you would have scored much higher in a stock food challenge.

Hopefully this is helpful in some way.

Sarah

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by crik:
Wonderful. Love the cop and dof.

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by Tygerr:
I'll have some... Looks tasty.

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Comment by burgartown:
I like that the photo doesn't seem as setup as some of the others. I think you could have come up with a more creative title though.

-Btown

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by Ja-9:
good set up...if the coffee cup was in focus it would have been better for me...

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by bubeltrubel:
one of the best in challenge. good luck!

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by tanguera:
Nicely done. But the cup is unnecessary and makes this more artistic than shot.

Panini and a coffee anyone?
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Comment by SoulMan1978:
DOF is tremendous :-) Looks great.

The only thing is the OOF grain of the wood is causing an odd effect at the top of the shot behind the plate.

Still 8 from me.

Panini and a coffee anyone?
by jkirkby

Comment by AKPhotoGal:
This is a good idea - I think the table color is a bit distracting. With a neutral table I bet the rest of the photo would POP!

Panini and a coffee anyone?
by jkirkby

Comment by linny:
good picture. Not sure about the fork there.