Deep Fried Tofu

Reposted due to ratings by bot-raters.

To the people who took time to rate and comment this picture, sorry for deleting them...

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Marlin Helliwell, January 22, 2005; 11:08 A.M.

 

Yumm! Follows the current trend in food photography of narrow depth of field. Good perspective. Colours and lighting at warmth to the food. Good choice of frame & background

 

RESPONSE:

 

Marlin,

Thanks for the feedback. The reason why I chose shallow depth of field is because I think one tofu in focus is enough to give information to the viewers about the tofu (because the other 3 are similar).

 

And also helps the eye not to wonder around to other 3 tofus but only focused to the front one especially on the tofu toppings ( the shallots and spices).

 

Thanks !

You can even make tofu look good. Excellent photo.

Don't know how it tastes but tofu never looked so good!

Tofu is one of the things i hate the most... but we are not here to discuss my culinary taste but photography so...

 

I'm not familiar with food shot and at first i tought it was missing some DOF but after a closer look i think it work very well the way it is. the frame also is a good choice, it complement well this photo.

Good work. 6/6

 

Pascal

mmmmmmm looks great! good job and nice touch addin that color as border and text, very profesionally done.

I came back for a second look and must say it's very well done... I'm almost ready to eat some tomorrow, naaahh!!!

 

Good work, very professional.

 

 

Pascal

Thanks Pascal..

 

But mind you, Tofu is not everyone's taste though... :)

 

Albert.

Bummer... looks like my picture got hit by bot raters again... I'm not going to repost this again, hope the site moderator will remove them soon...

 

Albert.

hi Albert. You really seem to have at least one robotrater. But it is not enough to hope that administrators will act, it is quicker if you write a mail to abuse@photo.net and inform them of the suspected name. If it proves to be a robot, they will delete it after 2 or 3 days along with its rates. So you need not delete your photo with the normal rates and comments. I have it done like that twice. You can check your raters yourself. If you find that a "person" is a very fresh member (one or two days of membership) has not posted any photo and any comment but rated hundreds of photos (especially if almost all the highest rated are nudes), than it is probably a robot. You should check the suspected "member.s" rates number for several times a day and if you find that the number raises by several hundreds in a couple of hours than you can be almost sure it is a robot. You cn also find the suspected "meber,s" rates slightly diminishing between two checks. That will be the sign that others have alredy informed the administration and they began deleting the robot,s rates. Nevertheless you write a mail even in such situaton. It is not only your interest. The first generation of such robots rated highly almost exclusively nudes, and almost all the other rates given by them were very low. The new generation is more sophisticated. Regards

Damn robots i always was suspicious of them, who the hell would rate this 3/3 ? We need a genius to come up with a readily acceptable impovement on the rating system. I mean i am greatfull for it, but almost everything can be improved. Alot of people get dissatisfied some times with this sort of thing, and i have crappy photos with high ratings :/

Thanks for all the support guys... Yeah, it's a bummer when you put effort to take a picture only to be rated by bots (regardless its high or low)

 

Now I think I am pretty convinced that those are bots, they all joined the same day, have given very similar ratings in total (290-ish total for every one of them), the ratings averaged to 4 point something, never give comments and they dont have pictures in their portfolios.

 

I already sent email to abuse@photo.net, hope they can deal with it soon.

 

Thanks !

 

Albert.