Post Your Food Photography

My "Brinner"... For dinner this evening, I had potatoes o'brian with pico de gallo, half a fried polish sausage and creamy scrambled eggs. Yum!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/JzWr​Nx

Looks delicious, Doc. Nice shot.

Dan Marchant wrote in post #18030642
Home made Beef and Mushroom meatballs in a rich tomato sauce, patas bravas, fried chorizo and cherry tomatoes with fresh basil.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/HTFF​Ke Tapas by Dan Marchant, on Flickr

Now there's a meal I could savor. Nice.

navydoc wrote in post #18055559
My "Brinner"... For dinner this evening, I had potatoes o'brian with pico de gallo, half a fried polish sausage and creamy scrambled eggs. Yum!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/JzWr​Nx My Brinner by Gene, on Flickr

Composition is boring, lighting is flat. next time whey dont you try using rule of thirds and angling the light more.

M_Six wrote in post #18055581
Looks delicious, Doc. Nice shot.

Thanks Mark, it was delicious!

DonJuanMair wrote in post #18055695
Composition is boring, lighting is flat. next time whey dont you try using rule of thirds and angling the light more.

Thanks for your critique.

Composition is just how I served the food onto my plate to eat, lighting is just the overhead florescent lights in a drop ceiling in my kitchen and since I shot this handheld with my 90mm macro lens, I couldn't hold the camera any higher to even think about the rule of thirds. I did center the plate horizontally though when I cropped from the original 3:2 ratio to 5:4. I think rules are just guides, not laws anyway.

Dinner err Brinner tasted great though...

DonJuan, while the quality of your shots is greatly appreciated by many, I imagine that some may be hesitant to take that critique to their hearts. Anything can be said in a constructive and encouraging manner

itsallart wrote in post #18055914
DonJuan, while the quality of your shots is greatly appreciated by many, I imagine that some may be hesitant to take that critique to their hearts. Anything can be said in a constructive and encouraging manner

I thought i was constuctive, i did say maybe next time try rules of thirds.

DonJuanMair wrote in post #18056127
I thought i was constuctive, i did say maybe next time try rules of thirds.

Even though your critique was unsolicited, it didn't bother me. I didn't find it instructive to me however. As I mentioned in my last post, I couldn't very well adjust the lighting angles or anything else about them since they were attached to the ceiling and as for the composition, including whether or not I use the "rule of thirds", it is subjective and merely a matter of personal preference.

You're saying you couldn't move the plate anywhere?

There's high-toned commercial photography, and there's "Look what I cooked today." Sometimes people want to take a quick shot of their meal and settle down to eating it before it's cold. Not saying this was navydoc's situation, but it's possible. The frequency of negative comments about amateur/hobbyist food shots has made me reluctant to post in this thread. Maybe we ought to have two threads for general food photography: professional and other.

OhLook wrote in post #18056306
There's high-toned commercial photography, and there's "Look what I cooked today." Sometimes people want to take a quick shot of their meal and settle down to eating it before it's cold. Not saying this was navydoc's situation, but it's possible. The frequency of negative comments about amateur/hobbyist food shots has made me reluctant to post in this thread. Maybe we ought to have two threads for general food photography: professional and other.

Hehe, I just started to post that I couldn't move the plate anywhere, at least to improve lighting for a photograph because I didn't want my "brinner" to get cold!

OhLook wrote in post #18056306
There's high-toned commercial photography, and there's "Look what I cooked today." Sometimes people want to take a quick shot of their meal and settle down to eating it before it's cold. Not saying this was navydoc's situation, but it's possible. The frequency of negative comments about amateur/hobbyist food shots has made me reluctant to post in this thread. Maybe we ought to have two threads for general food photography: professional and other.

Could be a good idea. This more often that not feels like look what i had for dinner thread. A pic of your dinner does not translate as food photography in my opinion.

DonJuanMair wrote in post #18056363
Could be a good idea. This more often that not feels like look what i had for dinner thread. A pic of your dinner does not translate as food photography in my opinion.

A pic of dinner is literally food photography, though. The source of conflict, I think, is the difference between "food photography" and "food photography." Those who come for the former don't want to see the latter. The two types share a thread because there wasn't always a dedicated food-photography forum.

I figured that navydoc's brinner photo was meant to be casual. If he'd wanted to emphasize the artistic side, he would have used a different plate, without such a distracting strong design.

Any suggestions for titling a spinoff thread, and which kind of photography shall be spun off?