This past Friday, my niece and her husband had a going away party at Hurricane Grill here in Tallahassee, FL. They are now living in New Bern, NC, a very small town compared to Tally, but life will be so relaxing and rewarding for them. My sister-in-law came up to help them move. She is such a love and we all are very lucky to have her in the family. I know that she will have the entire house unpacked and decorated by the time she leaves Tuesday.
The title of this blog is about food photography. I really have a beef with that (no pun intended, I think). This is mainly about what I'm seeing on Facebook but other sites, too. I cannot stand to see pictures of people's half-eaten meals nor pictures of food that looks entirely unappetizing. They make me want to throw up and give up eating all together. Hmmm, maybe that's a good thing since I need to lose weight.
Seriously, why do people think their food looks good when it isn't? Okay, I have taken pics of my homemade pizza and hamburger buns I made for the first time but I don't do it consistently. My hamburger buns were funny looking and I made jokes about it, but others think their foods look so yummy and even say so. They aren't. I wish they would quit taking pictures! Oh, I did take a picture of this humongous salad I had at Newk's restaurant and it came out almost professional. No, it really did. Here, take a look:
This was taken in March 2012 from my Android. Not bad, eh? Um, you're not going to throw up, are ya?
Now, looking at magazines/TV/Internet sites with foods that are prepared for photography is another thing. These foods are actually 'beautified' by food stylists that will glaze food items to give them a special shine, or paint to give a deeper, lighter, whatever color, to make them more appealing. I get that. That is different than what I am talking about. Those foods are foods I'd eat. Amateur photos, not so much.
I have seen on Facebook amateur pictures of restaurant food taken by my 'friends' and some are half-eaten (gross), blurry (why post if you can't see what the food is), burnt (do you really want to show what kind of cook you are by letting your friends see your burnt food), and foods that just look icky. I don't get it. Do you? So, these people are my pet peeves. Just wish that if they take a picture of food to make it pleasing, not something we would have an aversion to. Make it appealing enough that we would comment with "Wow! That looks really good! What did you prepare it with?" Something where we would want to make the dish ourselves not go "Geez, that looks like someone chewed it up and spit it back out."
So what do you think about food photography?
Until next time with a new topic...
Linda
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