Casual Food Porn

Not A Speck Of Cereal · 10-21-2007, 05:55 PM

So a friend decides to start sending me images of the dinners he's been making, and the shots are AWFUL! It's not so much that he takes the shot from polar right above a freakin' plate--the color is all wrong. It is quite unappetizing. Purple onions? Snot covered mushrooms? No thanks.

So I put together a gallery of some (a small slice of) my casual food photography and sent it to him as an example of how easy it is to do right. As long as I went to effort, I thought I'd share the gallery with you, which you can view here.

It's all hand held, on-camera flash, casually shot. I do have studio lighting and have taking some studio-type food shots, but I purposely left them out of this gallery. Enjoy.

Does anyone else have any food porn they'd like to share?

Squinky · 10-21-2007, 07:28 PM

I love the Halloween decor.

lumi · 10-21-2007, 07:36 PM

It's good to know that you're teaching others about proper lighting in photography. As a fan of food and art, bad lighting bothers me.

And you're gonna have to tell me where that pizza is from, and what restaurant in Seattle is serving bone marrow?

Jelena · 10-22-2007, 01:54 AM

I love those pictures Specksie! And they made me really hungry.

Starflux · 10-22-2007, 03:17 AM

Mmmmm, deeeelish!

samIamsad · 10-22-2007, 04:51 PM

Dear Lord, whatever that is, I want it NOW (and it's like 2 o'clock in the morning...)

Do I have food pr0n on my hard drive? Well I found this, for what it's worth. This pic is reaaaally old, and the food tasted quite good, that's all that matters, right? As far as I can remember it did, that is, those must be like years old. Proof can be found in picture #2. Do you see the drool running from the corner of my mouth? Well I don't either.. uh, never mind.

Not A Speck Of Cereal · 10-22-2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by lumi

And you're gonna have to tell me where that pizza is from, and what restaurant in Seattle is serving bone marrow?

All of the pizza shots are from two private residents, friends who built really nice, wood-fired pizza ovens in their back yard. We make dozens of pizzas at each event, with dozens of ingredients. It's a lot of fun.

The bone marrow was from another private dinner. Very few of those shots were from restaurants.

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Originally Posted by samIamsad

Dear Lord, whatever that is, I want it NOW (and it's like 2 o'clock in the morning...)

Sometimes there's nothing quite like iHop at two in the morning, and that's exactly what that shot was all aboot! Eggs Benedict and greasy hash-browns babyee, after a long party with plenty of drinking!

Your #2 shot: Perfect geek, eating handy food next to the opened PC--love it! By the way, in that shot, you look at less like Norman Bates-like than you do in your avatar.

Jelena · 10-23-2007, 05:18 AM

Yay! Finally a picture of Sam!

Spiwak · 10-23-2007, 07:57 AM

I'm not so much into food photography, but looks good. Digital, I'm guessing? Or did you scan negs?

Not A Speck Of Cereal · 10-23-2007, 08:33 PM

Digital, post-processed for appealing color cast.

***tabacco*** · 10-23-2007, 09:54 PM

http://www.skilletdoux.com/ may also interest you. The author might be familiar to many of you as well

Not A Speck Of Cereal · 10-24-2007, 07:06 PM

Good stuff tobascki

***tabacco*** · 10-24-2007, 07:29 PM

(That's not my site. It belongs to one Dom Armato, aka Guybrush)

*Melanie68* · 10-24-2007, 07:40 PM

Guybrush? I don't think I remember him. (perhaps he was before my time here)

***tabacco*** · 10-24-2007, 07:41 PM

No, he was the voice of Guybrush, in Curse of and Escape from Monkey Island

*Melanie68* · 10-24-2007, 07:45 PM

Oh, silly me. I'm not enough of an MI afficionado, but now that you say that, the name rings a bell.

*stepurhan* · 10-26-2007, 04:29 AM

Real food porn. The Marks and Spencer adverts. They even have porn music in the background.

General Food

Summer Food

Christmas Food

Not A Speck Of Cereal · 10-26-2007, 06:58 PM

Rawk!

Catbert · 10-27-2007, 05:48 AM

Food always looks disgusting on a screen to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJMloF0jR0

samIamsad · 10-27-2007, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Not A Speck Of Cereal

Your #2 shot: Perfect geek, eating handy food next to the opened PC--love it!

Bull's eye.

Talking about adverts, I'm suddenly eight years old again, jeez they could show this in cinema again like they used to and sell millions of Nogger Choc®s with it.. Retro's still the shite and this is like the ultimate cheesy feel good ad of the 80s. Watch out for those awesome cuts during that break, shortly before that sax solo kicks in! A-fucking-mazing.

10-21-2007, 05:55 PM	#1
Not A Speck Of Cereal The Major Grubert. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,570	Casual Food Porn So a friend decides to start sending me images of the dinners he's been making, and the shots are AWFUL! It's not so much that he takes the shot from polar right above a freakin' plate--the color is all wrong. It is quite unappetizing. Purple onions? Snot covered mushrooms? No thanks. So I put together a gallery of some (a small slice of) my casual food photography and sent it to him as an example of how easy it is to do right. As long as I went to effort, I thought I'd share the gallery with you, which you can view here. It's all hand held, on-camera flash, casually shot. I do have studio lighting and have taking some studio-type food shots, but I purposely left them out of this gallery. Enjoy. Does anyone else have any food porn they'd like to share? Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ People don't wear enough hats.

10-21-2007, 07:36 PM	#3
lumi Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Washington, USA Posts: 2,120	It's good to know that you're teaching others about proper lighting in photography. As a fan of food and art, bad lighting bothers me. And you're gonna have to tell me where that pizza is from, and what restaurant in Seattle is serving bone marrow? Share Share this post on Twitter

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Not A Speck Of Cereal The Major Grubert. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 2,570	Digital, post-processed for appealing color cast. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ People don't wear enough hats.

10-23-2007, 09:54 PM	#11
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