A shot in the Kitchen

Here is a shot in the Kitchen. Some colorful vegetables are under macro photography. How do you rate it?
Your comments and ideas are appreciated.
Vafa

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Nice and crisp. The water drops provide a bit of glimmer as well.

I question the crop/composition and what you were trying to achieve. I think that I would rather have seen more of the tomatoes on the left and less of the bowl on the right for a crop, although a full shot of the bowl might have provided some interesting light and texture to the composition.

Thanks for your comments.
About the cropping, in some cases I feel that an un-complete picture is more demanding. You know, somthing like an un-finished story that everyone can direct it toward his/her desires. I'm not sure, but I think it may create a semi-objective/ semi-subjective impression about the work.
vafa

True, and that was the essence of my query. The crop looked somewhat arbitrary and therefore incomplete. A tighter crop might be the answer, but the full peppers and incomplete tomatoes somewhat bother me, particularly the almost there, but truncated tomato at the lower left.

Again, image quality, focus and color look dead on.

As a chef I can say, composition isn't tight enough and the silver color of the bowl isn't working with the colors of your vegetables....using a bowl for a container might work more to your advantage if its full of vegetables - almost to the point of overflowing - it will show a lushness and fertility...might want to think about if you are telling a story about the bowl (ie what color would do that?) or if you are telling a story about the objects in the bowl.....then figure out arrangements, composition of the shot, lighting, etc....
Have you checked out food shots ? There's some decent stock food photography sites online to check out.

C

I do not like the compo to much.
The "bowl" interferes with the full red and green colors and the lighting created anoying light spots on parts of the bowl.
For me this is a sharp shot of some tomatoes and paprica's in a plastic/glass bowl no more no less.

However the brilliance, color saturation and sharpness are very strong!

Thanks for comments. They were realy helpful to me
vafa

I agree with the other comments, the technical aspects of the photo are great, focus, color exposure, but at this angle the bowl is a distraction, kind of a round peg in a square hole.

Composition wise I think it falls a bit between a still life, where I might include a little more around the main subject, bowl, part of counter something out of focus behind the subject to put in context. Or a macro photograph (there's probably a better term of this but I can't recall it) where the crop is very tight on some detail leaving your brain to kind of fill in the rest.

Perhaps if shot from the side the edge of the bowl would become more of a horizon (you mightg need to stack some more veggies in there though). Or at an angle the rim of the bowl would become an oval that might fit a rectangular crop better. Another shot I might try would be a tight crop, through the texture of bowl, with a very strong downlight on the veggies, would need to play with lighting, focus & depth of field here, and it would depend on the opaqueness of the bowl, maybe some sidelight on the bowl but the veggies would have to be very strongly lit.

Hope this helps a bit. Look forward to seeing more.

I get the feeling that the crop is so loose because you wanted to include the pepper stalks.
Maybe if you turned the peppers 180 degrees so the stalk overlapped the tomatoes? Then crop in tighter from the right?
Brilliant colors!