The thoughts you’ve put into composing your shot (colour, contrast, texture, angle, light, etc.)? 

When I was taking these two pictures I first thinking about the lighting to make sure nothing was dark and everything was attracting the eye of the viewer. Next I tried to capture multiple angles of the parsley with the knife in action. The texture was antoher element that I really tried to demonstrate in these photos. You can see in these two pictures of utencsils with ingrediants the stems of the parsley with all there detail, the knife positioned in action to cutting the parsley and the parsley zoomed up close to the camera lense to capture all of it’s colour and detail.

What you’re trying to capture—Does your picture tell a story?

I was trying to capture in both of these shots the utensil in action with the ingredient around it to create this simple picture. That’s why the backround is blurred so the main phocus point is what I am trying to display. There is no story I was trying to captured I just wanted a really real picture with no distractions to it. It clearly shows what was going on and focuses on it.

What you like about the photo?
I really liked how you can really see the detail of everything and how simple the picture really is. I also liked the added touch of the twist tie because it adds this extra element. When the viewer see’s all this they can really picture what the action is and what steps they took with all of these added layers to the picture.