Photography - [SI] comments on food

I'm a little late, but I wasn't going to comment at all this time because my
monitor didn't allow me to see the photos properly.

I have now fixed it up so here goes!

As usual, take these comments with a grain of salt!

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Tim Conway 1 - Looks delicious but I think the steam interfered with the
shot.

Tim Conway 2 - There are weird bars of light across this image making it look
odd.

Tim Conway 3 - Chicken looks good but the exposure is a little too contrasting.

Savageduck 1 - Label is nice and bright but the composition does little for me.

Savageduck 2 - Nice colors in this food display shot. Like the salmon.

Savageduck 3 - That must be the fish you just bought! Looks good but what is the
bright spot at the top of the plate?

Chemiker 1 - Nice creative lighting shot.

Chemiker 3 - The background distracts from the 2 objects, the proportions
look wrong, and it's too busy a scene.

FrankEss 1 - No real subject to focus on here... just an obscured bud.

FrankEss 2 - Veggs don't stand out well from the background... should re-shoot a
bit closer.

FrankEss 3 - Interesting, you close-cropped for a reason I guess.

Alan Browne 1 - Frying onions in a heavy skillet, I can smell the steak coming
up! (Gotta get invited for dinner!) Nice sense of motion, exclusive lighting.

Alan Browne 2 - Nice range of focus, lots of interest, nice target on shell.

Alan Browne 3 - There's pork on your fork... nice texture, very realistic. Hope
you didn't melt your lens!

KurtP 1 - Nice composition idea but it's not all in focus.

KurtP 2 - This is nice, a study in green! Very relaxing and crunchy too!

KurtP 3 - Nice composition but the out of focus sides are distracting.

Dan_Petre 1 - Remind me of a motel in Sherbrooke - no dining room!

MG 1 - Nice lighting from the candle, perfect exposure.

Chemiker 2 - Interesting, weird idea, nice colors, nice photo.

Otter 1 - A theme with a much wider view, kind of a disorderly, dark, and blurry
photo. I definitely wouldn't eat that!

Bob Flint 1 - Kind of flat, I should have used another angle and got specular
off the fork.

Bob Flint 2 - I screwed this up post production, also that lower shadow comes
from using a huge wide angle lens with a tiny pop up flash. Should have re-shot
with my SB-700 flash.

Bob Flint 3 - This wasn't too bad for exposure but I should have arranged it
better.

Cooper 1 - Looks like street people, I wouldn't eat that corn!

Cooper 2 - Bar BQ corn roast? He looks like he's going to eat you next!

Cooper 3 - Nice texture photo, one thing I know about squirrels, they love corn!

Martha Coe 1 - Kind of a flat photo, no specific subject. Would be nicer if much
bigger field of view, or zoomed in on one thing.

peter newman 1 - Almost fails the mandate, no real food subject, just a dark
dirty window.

peter newman 2 - Again no real food, not much interest for me.

peter newman 3 - A nice frosty glass, but needs a far better background.

Otter 2 - More of a wide theme photo, the food is secondary to the main event.

Otter 3 - I like this "street scene" even though it's indoors. Reminds me of
some places in Montreal. And that's my fav. pizza!

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