Healthy Ingredients!

Being on a 'healthy eating' regime I thought the salad ingredients looked
very good together. I decided to take them against a black background so
as not to detract from them, but wanted a texture so they did not look as
though they were floating. I also wanted a reflection.

Posted by Di Wilkins on Tue, 04/14/15 08:01
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Comments by Nathan Leonard Kern on Tue, 04/14/15 11:35

If the salid turns qut as good as the still life you had a salid to remember.It could stand cropping some of the top textured black just where the horizental dark shadow begins,


Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Tue, 04/14/15 12:17

I like the vivid colors in your salad composition, the sense of the texturing from the ingredients for the salad and the reflective portion at the bottom which anchors the whole image rather than creating a sense of floating.


Comments by noseykate on Tue, 04/14/15 12:57

Lettuce rejoice! Lovely still life. I'm fine with the extra black space
up above, especially because of the subtle texture. The lighting is just
so, and the reflection so right. Makes me hungry!


Comments by Di Wilkins on Tue, 04/14/15 13:32

Thank you for your comments, they are most appreciated. Regarding cropping, I am
afraid I too am happy with the space above, as it leaves the main part of the image nicely
in the bottom third. Di


Comments by Paul Bracey on Fri, 04/17/15 07:03

very nice work


Comments by Ernest Cadegan on Fri, 04/24/15 06:04

Leaving it in the third doesn't always work. And if you want to think in
terms of rules (which I hate) I think they are quite different in square
format, which is one of the reasons I'm attracted increasingly to that
format. This would be much better if the subject had been placed higher
in the frame.


Comments by Ernest Cadegan on Fri, 04/24/15 06:07

I'd also like to add the the vertical element on the left is not helpful.

You have however done well with other critical elements including the
lighting and the arrangement of the veggies.


Comments by Jacky on Fri, 04/24/15 14:03

I very much like the light on the veggies. Nicely composed -- and I do, in general, appreciate effectively-used negative space. However, if it were mine, I probably would have cropped just a bit off the top -- just personal choice. I also like the background. Great texture. I'd like it more, maybe, if it was just a bit more oof, but not so much that you'd lose that texture.


Comments by G.B. SHETTLER on Fri, 04/24/15 14:14

Like it as is... Excellent !