Food photography is difficult. First of all, there's all of this delicious food in front of you. Who wants to mess with a camera? Second, the lighting in a kitchen (at least my kitchen) is never ideal. Last, many professional photos are not actually of cooked food- they manipulate the food to appear like the desired recipe in order to get better results. That's cheating!
The picture above is from a Sur La Table "Fresh, Delicious Mexican Cooking" class. The green lump on the left that has the brown ovals is a delicious roasted spiced chicken thigh with Tomatillo-Pepita sauce. Delicious! Amazing! And totally impossible to photograph. The giant oranges in the foreground belong to a delicious salad of avocado, red onion and citrus with a very light dressing of honey, lime and cilantro. The avocado and ground pepper make the salad look like something I dug out of the trash. I assure you, it was not!
Sigh. I prefer to concentrate on cooking, and not photography (at least for now!)-- so if you don't like my pictures, feel free to send me some professional lighting equipment, a better camera than my phone, and any helpful tips!
The picture above is from a Sur La Table "Fresh, Delicious Mexican Cooking" class. The green lump on the left that has the brown ovals is a delicious roasted spiced chicken thigh with Tomatillo-Pepita sauce. Delicious! Amazing! And totally impossible to photograph. The giant oranges in the foreground belong to a delicious salad of avocado, red onion and citrus with a very light dressing of honey, lime and cilantro. The avocado and ground pepper make the salad look like something I dug out of the trash. I assure you, it was not!
Sigh. I prefer to concentrate on cooking, and not photography (at least for now!)-- so if you don't like my pictures, feel free to send me some professional lighting equipment, a better camera than my phone, and any helpful tips!
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