Beautiful pictures Mary, I wish I had one of those cookies right now! Yummy!Here are my submissions for week 3:One element of this week's assignment was to photograph something with backlight. This is seaweed salad up close and personal, another part of the assignment.
Mary's photography is great! I love seeing her pictures and following along in her class.
I am just getting some more Barred Rocks (the same strain mine are from), for diversity. Oh, and a few of his New Hampshires, too. Not getting much, really. Though, if he has any turkeys available, I might try a couple.
Here are my critiques.
Hi Mary. Great subject and now I want a chocolate chip cookie!
Since the cookies appear to be the main subject here, try making them stand out rather than have so much other stuff jammed in around them. If you were to make this a vertical composition, you would have a lot of room behind the cookies for the coffee and cream while having the cookies up front and nice and sharp. I would also get the light farther behind them, in fact, 180 degrees from its current position(upper right corner instead of lower left) would be great.
Nice job with the back lighting! Beautiful subject too. This one really needs to be a vertical though since the main subject is so tall and you have so much room at the sides that is not used. Remember to always shoot both orientations while learning so you can compare them side by side afterwards and see why one works better than the other.
Great job with the meat on this one! It looks very fresh and appetizing with great color and sheen. I would use a smaller piece of bread only since it kind of dwarfs everything else on the plate and I would also move the knife and fork so they don't block the main subject. Remember to keep it about the main subject, in this case the meat, and then use the props in a supporting not competing role.
