Cuisine

Right, I love my food, love to cook but my presentation has been rather lacking. It all tastes wonderful, but if I want to do it properly it has to look and taste good. I thought it would be a good idea to kill two birds with one stone and actually put my K10D to good use. An other point would be, what is the point in arranging my food just to eat it? So if I take photos I can see what others think of both the image and the food shown.

(Teaser removed, waste of space and bandwidth really)

Here is (what was) tonight's dinner, Spinach and Quark Lasagne with Scones with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam for desert.

(I had no ricotta so I cheated and mixed a low fat soft cheese with thick clotted cream. I am very creative in the kitchen and 'make it up' as I go along. I do know what I am doing though as it is all Chemistry.)













Taken through Pentax SMC-A 50mm F1.7.

Full EXIF embedded. All taken in my dining room with a single tungsten lamp and a bit of light through (yellow) the curtains. I like the warm light though the shadows on some are annoying.

I really want a pair of 540s and one 360 for those 'light' days.

Maybe a sheet of white paper, some tin foil, or other reflector thing-a-ma-jig could have helped to eliminate the shadows a bit??

Anyway, I like the color but (ignoring the first teaser image), I only like the DOF on the second image. (third from bottom). The rest seem a bit shallow and on one or two almost appear that you've focused on the wrong part of the food.

The leaf-sliced pear is a great touch!

Food is usually photographed in a redder light. It just looks better that way. However I agree a reflector of some sort would have helped here, and also that the focussing is a little odd.

Plus why would you want to ruin perfectly delicious clotted cream with ricotta or another cream? And your scones imho need to be fatter and less diameter to be real scones!

It is not easy to get the focus right as only the centre focus point works for confirmation in MF and the viewfinder is small. Everything was 'off centre' to avoid getting to much horrible background.

I'll try something as a reflector next time, big learning curve to climb.

I'll also take more time with focusing. I was hungry and it was getting cold .

I cheated with the scones, they were bought