Foodography

Good news for the snap-happy - the very talented Andrew of Spittoon/Spittoon Extra and Sam of Posh & Becks have started up a new venture - Foodography - to help those of us who like to take photos of our consumables and who want to improve their trigger finger artistry.

The Foodography group is based on Flickr and every few weeks will be posting a new thematic challenge, with the subsequent posts being constructively critiqued by the group.

I haven't had time (or fruit!) to take a photo yet myself, but the group has already improved my skills - it inspired me to actually sit down and reread my camera manual for the first time since buying it. And I discovered several things I'd forgotten, been doing wrong or were unaware of (huh? I have colour filters? I can take movies in sepia? ooh! panorama shots!).

My immediate reaction was to dash off, adjust my camera, and take a photo of a Spanish Salad I'd made for The Paper Palatte (which sadly I can't show here). I was thrilled to find the focus, light, colour and contrast balance were perfect. The photo needed no 'tweaking' in PhotoShop at all.

A good chunk of the appeal of food is in the visual and I love sharing that almost as much as I love sharing recipes. So join Foodography and show off your skills, improve your snapshots, help other foodie photographers and generally have fun!

The current challenge is Orange Is Not The Only Fruit.

Comments

[Tana]

Come and stick a pin in the Food Bloggers Global Map! (Center the map by clicking/holding/dragging the little hand. Then zoom in.)

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