Entries tagged with 'photography'
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Sara Rosso, also known as Ms. Adventures in Italy, recently came back from her trip to India with beautiful photos and commentary about Indian street food and Indian Chinese cuisine. Sliced ice cream, atomically spicy vegetables, mini potato burgers, fried potato balls—I crave them all. Time to get my butt to India....
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In photographer Alex Lucka's series "Food & Beauty," models' faces are embellished with different kinds of meats. Now you have new uses for that salmon steak and ham you have lying around....
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Deb of recipe blog Smitten Kitchen shares some of her key food photography tips accompanied by plenty of food porn. Her takeaway message: "The only thing that will ever make a difference in the consistent quality of your photos is practice."...
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Eateries display photos of their food to help the customer decide what to order, but what happens when those photos decay into sickly, off-colored ghosts of their former selves? Despite the lack of any enticing qualities, these photos continue to grace restaurant menus and walls, as documented in the photography book, Bad Food Gone Worse. PingMag interviewed the book's authors, photographer Rene Nuijens and art director Ewoudt Boonstra of publisher KesselKramer, about the process of creating the book and the unintentional beauty of the decaying photos. Although these photographs don't get the stomach juices flowing, Rene explains, "...it doesn't matter how the pictures look. If people are hungry... they will eat!"...
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If you're looking for a new digital camera whose features are a step above most point-and-shoots but a little below a digital SLR, Lara Ferroni of Still Life With... has some advice. In her blog entry "The dSLR Lovers Point & Shoot," she recommends getting yourself a Canon PowerShot G7, which she calls "the foodie photographer's new best friend." The camera's features allow for more manual adjustments than other point-and-shoots (most important, focus, aperture, and shutter speed), and its small size compared to a digital SLR makes it easier to carry around (or be a little less conspicuous while taking photos in a restaurant). Check out her blog entry for more information and comparison shots she took with her...
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Tien Mao visited Japan earlier this year and just posted photos from an early-morning trip to Tsukiji Fish Market, the world's largest wholesale seafood market, where millions of dollars and tons of fish pass through in the early morning six days a week. If you love food, it's definitely one of the places you have to see when you visit Tokyo. I don't know when I'll be there next, but I do know these red tentacles are making me really hungry. Related: Rion Nakaya also has a lovely set from Tsukiji, taken two years ago. For more market scenes, check out her photographs from Bilbao's Riverside Meat Market and Fish Vendors....
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My friend Rion Nakaya is an amazing photographer who now lives in Paris and takes train rides across the continent for short weekend trips, just like a good European. This photograph is from a set she put up recently of the wares on display at Bilbao's Riverside Meat Market; I love this photo in particular because most of us are so disconnected from the realities of what we eat, with supermarket aisles full of plastic-wrapped ground beef and freezers packed with boxed chicken nuggets, and this shopkeeper's display leaves you no choice but to consider that yes, your pork chops came from an actual animal because here is its head right in front of you. It's both real and...
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My friend and favorite photographer Rion Nakaya now lives in Paris and goes on weekend jaunts all over Europe just like the locals do. Her most recent set of photos is of fish vendors in Bilbao's Riverside Market, which has been the city's center of trade since the 14th century....
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Robyn Eckhardt and David Hagerman of EatingAsia live in Malaysia and were recently invited to a kunduri to celebrate the engagement of an acquaintance. The bride-to-be's relatives, neighbors and a few hired cooks prepared a traditional feast in her family's courtyard for over a hundred expected guests; Hagerman's photos from the day are stunning and combined with Eckhardt's writing make for the best kind of wish-you-were-here posts you could ever hope to see anywhere. Man, I love the internet....
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Filipinos like to eat pork and so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the number one dish expected at any big party or holiday feast in the Philippines is lechon: an entire suckling pig stuffed with herbs, slow-roasted for hours over charcoal, and served whole, its skin turned golden-red and crispy but the meat inside still moist and delectable. Sidney Snoeck has a mouthwatering set of photos from the district of La Loma, the lechon capital of the Philippines, where much of the neighborhood lives and works in compounds dedicated to roasting pigs year-round....
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