Food Photography
Like a lot of other food lovers, I think food has to be interesting to the eye. The appeal first comes in”what you see”, because it is “what you are going to eat”. Hence, like many others, I like to make it look beautiful, not only in shape, but in the matching of colours on the plate, and then on the table. A real art, actually also a real “casse-tête chinois” at times, not always straightforward, but eh, so much fun!
I just finished reading an article about Digital Food Photography on O’ Reilly that made me very enthusiastic. So far, when cooking to post recipes and pictures of my dishes on my food website, I really did so with the amateur eye, let’s say, I was doing my best, following my sense of taste, colour and style. The result was not always successful, to say the least. After reading more about food photography, I was pleased to hear that I was already using some tips suggested. Not a bad start after all, as it is nice to know that without being a real professional food photographer, you can actually make nice pictures to show what you do. Pictures really help to get an idea of what you are cooking. Are you amongst those, like me, who prefer cookbooks with beautiful pictures? I feel it helps me to better feel what I am doing. After such a read, with little advice here and there easy to apply, I feel more geared up for more fun in the kitchen: I sense that thanks to this article read, my food creativity has been boosted.
Here is an example of a Japanese fish dish I made (Cod with broth on a bed of Japanese “Koshi-Hikari” rice).
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Trackback by Whirlycott - Philip Jacob — On November, 26th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Moi je trouve que Phil a beaucoup de chance :
Il a une femme belle à croquer qui lui fait de bons et jolis plats !!!
Comment by Sophie — On November, 30th, 2005 at 3:13 pm
j’ai retenu l’article pour demain, quand j’aurai plus de temps, mais ça a l’air super intéressant! Merci!
Comment by flo — On January, 6th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
[...] When I started my food blog about over a month ago, I had no real idea what world I was entering. My very first post covered food photography, as I had come across an article P. had sent for me to read. He always knew my strong interest in “you eat with your eyes first”, so it was guaranteed I was going to like it. This article is what started my blog adventure. Spontaneously, one evening, I said to P., “Devine quoi, je vais commencer un blog et je vais parler de cet article.” (Guess what, I am going to start a blog and talk about this article). “Toi, un blog ?” (You are going to start a blog?) I confess that until then I had not shown much interest in blogs, despite P’s many attempts to explain to me the whole concept -he has been maintaining his technology blog for 2 years but I had no idea what he was talking about. “Ah ouais? Sure!” I am a Taurus and can be stubborn. But eh, did he tell me about all this learning I was about to gain, the many great things I was about to discover? Absolument pas! [...]
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