day 143 - sunday

White on white

(18-70mm lens 1/250 F4.5)

Comments

[Joan]

oh the spoon!!!

[Kyle]

hello there, saw your post from the Pizza-critique and you were asking about your photo above... With this white-on-white composition, I think possibly an iron might help? crispy-crisp linen is a key to this kind of photo; texture works if it's genuine rustic wear-and-tear, but wrinkles and un-ironed fold lines in the tablecloth just loook 'messy'... (I bought an iron especially for photography, as I couldn't care less about wrinkles in 'real life', lol). Also, maybe turn the pestle around so it is at right angles to the spoon, so they both point to the onion rings in the centre of the image? Hope those observations are helpful? kind regards to you.

[Barbara]

Thanks Kyle, Yes I thought later the wrinkles spoiled it. I used muslin and should have used a linen cloth. I appreciate your input.

[Barbara]

A gift from a friend. I think she bought it in Fiji.

[Christopher Cina]

Persoanlly, I like the texture in the muslin. The only issue I seem to be having is the WB. It seems there is a green cast to the photo which suggests you shot under florescent light, then again that could just be my monitor.

Other than that, I think you could maybe have gone a little more in the center of the frame with the camera. The items at the bottom of the photo are fine but as you move up with your eyes you begin to see the camera angle.

Hope this helps.

C-

[Barbara]

Thanks Chris. I appreciate your input. It was taken inside by the window with natural light only.

[Ingrid (foodopera)]

Hi, I think if you had cropped some of the bowls to have them going out of frame that would add some interest to the photo. A tighter crop would also show more of the spices especially the star anaise which has such a beautiful shape. I think you need to work out what is the focus of the picture, the spices, onions? and really emphasise the hero. Ingrid from foodopera