Food Photography – A Minimalist Approach
The rise of minimalist cooking is changing the art of food photography. The following is a look at some of the techniques adopted by photographers to capture the simplicity and the spirit of this modern cuisine. Whether it is because of the recession or a genuine desire to downsize and simplify, minimalist cooking has become extremely popular. Everything from expensive and hard to acquire ingredients to rarely used, specialized utensils and equipment have been pared back to the bare minimum. Less is definitely more. Many photographers have noticed this change, either consciously or intuitively and are evolving and adapting their techniques to suit. The old sumptuous saturated glistening overfilled image just doesn’t seem to be a good match for this new approach to cooking and food in general. Read more…
Categories: photography Tags: food photography, lighting food, minimalist cooking, modern cuisine, photographing food
Free Minimalist Cookery Recipe eBook
This is just a quick plug for my latest project well to be strictly honest my wife’s latest project that I help out a bit with, a free cookery recipe ebook.
Download The Minimalist Cook from this page
she used to have her own commercial kitchen but has had to stop baking due to health reasons. She has always enjoyed coming up with new recipes and writing so recipe ebooks and blogging is a very natural career move for her. Me? – I do the photography and the layout.
Anyway, enough waffle, here is the first installment of her plans for world domination, a free 7 recipe ebooklet with simple but extremely tasty main course dishes. The photographs are, of course wonderful, but I’m biased.
The recipes include simple roast beef, easy roast chicken, and a chicken and pecan salad, tuna salad, a really good bean salad and the best chile I’ve tasted.
Categories: design, photography Tags: basic cooking, free recipe ebook, nutritious
Photos – NW Indiana in January
I like winters in NW Indiana. The land is very flat and a covering of snow makes for a stark minimalist beauty. Here are some photographs shot from a car in Stark and Porter Counties. said car was travelling at 55 mph and the light was low as it was dusk.
Just click on the thumbs to enlarge. If you want to enlarge durther click on the double arrow top right – it will makes sense, I promise.
Categories: NW Indiana, photography Tags: bleak, isolated, NW Indiana landscapes, Snow
Dept of D’uh – Photography
A stunning piece of advice to improve the readers photography skills.
Want to take pictures of tall statues, buildings, trees, or other tall structures, yet you can’t seem to get the whole subject in the picture? Turn your digital camera 90 degrees to the side, then focus on your subject and snap the image.
Categories: photography Tags: digital camera turn, portrait, stating the obvious, stupid advice
Coffee Mugs, Chairs and Legs
I haven’t posted any new photographs for months so I figured that today would be a good day to rectify that.
The sun shone for the first time in over a week so we went to the new coffee shop in town. I took my point and shoot camera and the light was good so I shot a few pics. Unfortunately I cannot post the best ones as my wife is in them and she will go ballistic if her mug starts appearing on the interweb tubes.
Categories: photography Tags: black and white, chairs, coffee cups, legs, photos