{"id":44,"date":"2008-08-10T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/dinners-on\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T04:58:27","slug":"dinners-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/2008\/08\/10\/photography\/dinners-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner&#8217;s On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2733280402\/\" title=\"Dinner's On! by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3066\/2733280402_b308247fa8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Dinner's On!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been looking at some incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/food-i_cooked-i-made_this\/pool\/\">food photography on flickr<\/a> lately. I love to cook, and am doing a lot of BBQ&#8217;ing this summer as our kitchen gets remodeled, but many of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/sets\/72157606420650556\/\">my attempts at food photography<\/a> have been only so-so. So, I&#8217;m going to try to get better at it.<\/p>\n<p>A few quick rules of thumb that I&#8217;ve noticed so far (kind of like the rule of thirds for general composition):<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<li>Shoot from a low angle. Looking straight down on a plate is boring, and makes the food look unappetizingly flat.<\/li>\n<li>Use a shallow depth of field. This features the item you want to highlight, and makes the rest act more as supporting characters.<\/li>\n<li>And of course, pay attention to the color and quality of the light. Soft light is best, and warm foods like warm light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these are observations and guidelines, not real rules.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a shot from the other night that&#8217;s going in the right direction. Note the fancy paper plate, as our kitchen is being remodeled and we have a very limited capacity for doing dishes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2733279934\/in\/photostream\/\">Garlic roasted potatoes<\/a>, string beans and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2733278670\/in\/photostream\/\">tri-tip with cajun rub<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2733279934\/\" title=\"Garlic Roasted Potatoes by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3009\/2733279934_ea0a18e7ee_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Garlic Roasted Potatoes\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/2733278670\/\" title=\"Cajun Rub by rosendahl, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3211\/2733278670_ab2d2c1462_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"197\" alt=\"Cajun Rub\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at some incredible food photography on flickr lately. I love to cook, and am doing a lot of BBQ&#8217;ing this summer as our kitchen gets remodeled, but many of my attempts at food photography have been only so-so. So, I&#8217;m going to try to get better at it. A few quick rules  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}