Food Photo Competition 2014 No 5 : Results

Judges Comment
The idea is fun and the photo well planned and taken but what makes this great is how the dog is so delicately pinching just one sausage without knocking anything over. No one will notice ! Well done you win !
Photographers Comment
Thank you for the win! I am Scott Cromwell from Oklahoma. I shot this with a Canon 7D and an old manual Peleng 8mm fisheye stopped down to f16. I love this lens and it also might be the sharpest in my bag...tough call between it and my Canon 100mm macro. My dog sure had a good time during this shoot. I would take a few pictures of him eating the top outside hotdog and then replace it with another until we went through a whole package.
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Judges Comment
Simple is often best and whatâ€™s simpler than bread and butter? You have given everything plenty room and your play with parallel lines is nice, the black background helping with that. Good crisp shot, well done.
Photographers Comment
Thank you for the mark of excellence award. My name is James Markus and my wife Barbara makes these culinary treasures. This loaf lasted a short while before it became only a memory and this photo. Thanks hon! I shot this in my West Michigan kitchen with a D800 and a 35mm f1.4 lens. Lighting was a strobe with a gridded strip softbox and a reflector. Congratulations to all the finalist and the winner.
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Judges Comment
Nice warm light and colours and interesting use of space make an original eggs and pan shot. Well done.
Photographers Comment
Henry Wicker, Fredericksburg, VA, USA Canon EOS 6D EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM Æ’/3.5 1/180 640 off Camera Flash bounced far camera-left Free range chicken eggs just gathered from my friend's farm

Judges Comment
This composition shows us so much with so little, we can feel the cafÃ© atmosphere around, hear the clink of china as we look at that dribble of coffee (oops) and wipe our lips.

Judges Comment
This is nice and sharp where it needs to be, the play of curves and lines effective in black + white but this would be nice in colour too.
Photographers Comment
L'Oignon Rouge- Henry Wicker, Fredericksburg, VA, USA Canon EOS 6D EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM Æ’/4.5 1/80 ISO320 Natural sunlight. The color shot was very lively but I was looking to feature texture and lines and I thought the beautiful purple of the onions actually distracted from that goal. Thanks!

Judges Comment
Well whatever your emotions are when you look at this, love it or not, the fact is that this photo stirrs them up.
Photographers Comment
The photograph is of my son and daughter taken in my back garden in Hellerup, Denmark on the last day of July 2010. Yes, it's a family snapshot but in the context of "food" it does I feel, epitomize how emotions can sometimes boil over due to things such as one's love or hate of the food, the portion size or sometimes the good or poor service! It was taken on a Leica M9 mounted with a 50 year-old 35mm Summicron, ISO 160, 1/250.
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Judges Comment
Here is a real life scene, down at the fishmongerâ€™s, scaling, beheading. It is a good lifestyle shot with a clever short depth of field keeping us looking at the work being done.

Judges Comment
Smoking kippers. A good graphic subject but it is a hard composition to pull off. Maybe more light on the herring could have been even better, bringing out that scaly texture and its symetrical form some more.
Photographers Comment
This shot was taken as part of a shoot for Ritchie's of Rothesay smokehouse on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. To achieve the shot, I worked with the local smoker in the smokehouse itself. The kipper was hung from a smoking rack and a small pile of sawdust then lit underneath. I set two soft box strobes on each side of the fish (left 1/2 power, right 1/16) and as the smoke began to rise, I asked the smoker to lower the fish into the path of the smoke so I could capture the atmospheric smoke trail. Taken on a Nikon D3s with Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED lens, camera mounted on Giottos Tripod and wireless shutter release used.
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