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The egg on top has a lot of light on it whereas the bottom layer has less. You need to equal out the lighting intensity. I would try to eliminate the glare of reflecting light on the top.
Focusing is key, too. Notice that the meat on the right is not too bad, but on the left it is blurred. Blurring is fine if it intentional, but unless all this food was in focus, I would not save this image.
Close-up images have a shallow depth of field by definition, but try to get as much in focus as possible by using narrow apertures. Images that are not parallel to the lens when the subject is close are hard to get in sharp focus. For example, butterflies in profile make good close-up subjects because their wings are flat, but leaves behind them would be hard to get sharp, so shallow DOF work well to blur out the background.
So, experiment with the food focusing by trying different apertures. In manual focus mode, turn the lens until the focus just becomes blurred then turn it slightly back the other way to get it sharp.
Focusing is key, too. Notice that the meat on the right is not too bad, but on the left it is blurred. Blurring is fine if it intentional, but unless all this food was in focus, I would not save this image.
Close-up images have a shallow depth of field by definition, but try to get as much in focus as possible by using narrow apertures. Images that are not parallel to the lens when the subject is close are hard to get in sharp focus. For example, butterflies in profile make good close-up subjects because their wings are flat, but leaves behind them would be hard to get sharp, so shallow DOF work well to blur out the background.
So, experiment with the food focusing by trying different apertures. In manual focus mode, turn the lens until the focus just becomes blurred then turn it slightly back the other way to get it sharp.
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