Friday, May 13, 2011

New Lights, New Lens, Action!

Yesterday was another challenge for me photographically. I dropped my camera a few weeks ago and rendered the lens inoperable, so I bought an identical one, and while I was at it I bought some lights. I'm the farthest thing from being a professional photographer that you can imagine, but I've always loved it (I made a pinhole camera when I was eighteen -- it was the wildest thing in the world to develop that photo!) and I guess I've been interested in photography  ever since I had an Instamatic, but yesterday was crunch time.

This place downtown, devi, for whom I developed their website, asked me to come in and take pictures of their new line of lunch specials, so I lugged all my minty-fresh equipment over there, with Brigitte for support, and took photos all afternoon. Here are some of them. Taking pictures of food is amazingly fun, and you get to eat it afterward.

I don't know an F-stop from a stop sign but this time the camera seemed to have a mind of its own and took some great pictures. Click on the photos to, as my friend Jim Donahue says, embiggen.

I think this was chicken. If you look at the spoon you can see my new umbrella light reflected!
I think these are lamb chops. I don't like lamb too much but this sure looks good!
No need for a food stylist -- the tiffin-wallahs did a great prep job.
I was joking to Brigitte that this looks like a spacecraft. Et voilà: the Starship Tikka Masala.

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