We need a cooking section!!! (Page 4): I'm game. Also add cool looking cocktails.

coj Loc: NJ, USA

I'm game. Also add cool looking cocktails.

Rongnongno wrote:

No, not one about cooking the books or even the capture but one about real cooking sharing not industrial food pictures but picture of meal or item one creates as well as photographs (and share the recipe).

After all photography is a way to document and it would be really interesting to literally see how one would mix his cooking habits with a photographer workflow in order to present their 'fare'....

psalom

Had a friend who was a professional photographer, told me the food the photographed was made from, of all things, concrete, textured and colored to match the food... said it was the only way to withstand the hot lights and time it took to photograph

ganmar37 Loc: Southern California

Don't exactly know what you're asking for, but thought I'd throw these two photos in.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Singing Swan wrote:

One of my favorites "To Serve Man" :)

Yes, good one. The Simpson's did a good take-off on that.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Blasthoff wrote:

Cooking with Photography?

Would that require a hot camera? :D

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

redhogbill wrote:

eldenta {altenta}??

Elder dentist? :D

Rongnongno Loc: FL

ganmar37 wrote:

Don't exactly know what you're asking for, but thought I'd throw these two photos in.

You made it? Yes.

Collie lover Loc: St. Louis, MO

Rongnongno wrote:

No, not one about cooking the books or even the capture but one about real cooking sharing not industrial food pictures but picture of meal or item one creates as well as photographs (and share the recipe).

After all photography is a way to document and it would be really interesting to literally see how one would mix his cooking habits with a photographer workflow in order to present their 'fare'....

Why?

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Collie lover wrote:

Why?

Kid' s question receives kid's answer: 'because' and ultimately "I said so".

As illustrated by a few in a humorist way a kitchen is not a place for camera gear. Most id not all kitchen pictures ever published other than some 'chef' in an immaculate laboratoire are... Next to NOTHING.

The making of a meal is messy, varied and worth more than the industrial photography offered in menus or advertisement.

Add this to sharing some recipe abomination and you have the potential ingredient for an explosive cook-up that could justify gas.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Here is the "Turkey" my wife prepared at Christmas, along with a few "Melonbally Santas".

Rongnongno Loc: FL

JohnFrim wrote:

Here is the "Turkey" my wife prepared at Christmas, along with a few "Melonbally Santas".

Wow! @ decoration!

Now how about the cook at work?

I called my wife to look at the turkey... 'Wow! How did she do that?' then went on identifying the elements used...

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* Note I rarely call my wife to look at anything.

erickter Loc: Dallas,TX

Rongnongno wrote:

No, not one about cooking the books or even the capture but one about real cooking sharing not industrial food pictures but picture of meal or item one creates as well as photographs (and share the recipe).

After all photography is a way to document and it would be really interesting to literally see how one would mix his cooking habits with a photographer workflow in order to present their 'fare'....

Good idea. I photograph many meals; ones I create myself, ones my wife makes, and great restaurant meals that are spectacular. Mr wife and son often get annoyed with my meal documentation. My response is; you'll appreciate it later when looking at the delicious food we enjoyed, and time together. Fun.

wolverine49

I did these recently as an experiment into a new phase. Used a med size 24x30 Buff softbox with an Alien Bee. The owner loved them and more work coming.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Rongnongno wrote:

Wow! @ decoration!

Now how about the cook at work?

I called my wife to look at the turkey... 'Wow! How did she do that?' then went on identifying the elements used...

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* Note I rarely call my wife to look at anything.

My wife does not like being in pictures, so you won't see her.

I'm sure your wife (maybe even you!!!) can figure out the turkey. For the Santas, that's a melon ball (could also use cantaloupe for a pink face), a slice of banana, a decapitated strawberry, and a piece of cheese, all on a toothpick. I detail it only because you may not figure out the banana slice.

Kuzano

Rongnongno wrote:

No, not one about cooking the books or even the capture but one about real cooking sharing not industrial food pictures but picture of meal or item one creates as well as photographs (and share the recipe).

After all photography is a way to document and it would be really interesting to literally see how one would mix his cooking habits with a photographer workflow in order to present their 'fare'....

I met a fellow in San Francisco who had a downtown photo studio for food photography, and other product shots.

He had a first cabin kitchen, lots of Stainless, and restaurant style. He had a selection of chef's who came in and cooked for his shots. He did prep shots and finished meals set for display.

His most important tool was a water misting bottle. He said Never shoot dry food. Must look moist.

Do you want to know his "bread and butter" source of income, so to speak?

The vegetables and fruit on the plastic freezer bags for Jolly Green Giant and others. Another client was the packaging for McCullough Chain Saws... those brawny guys with the chain saws over their shoulders on the boxes.

Pretty mundane stuff, so he said, but paid for a nice life style.

When his wife took half of everything (California remember) he put a nice bed and a shower in his studio and lived downtown SF.

Lusted after his life.... for a couple of days. Then went home.

Odd, but even after installing a bedroom, he never did Glamour Shots. Guess he wanted to keep the half he had left?