Art of Lighting

Here are some pictures from the recent attempt by my wife at Raspberry and White Chocolate Mousse.

Raspberry and White Chocolate Mousse

Raspberry and White Chocolate Mousse

Raspberry and White Chocolate Mousse

I don’t know if its coincidence or what, but after the food series competition started in Cognizant’s Photography club, I am more interested in that area now. As with the Chaat item, this particular item is prepared by author and owner of Thefoodielovers.com For receipe, you will have to navigate to her site.

But I can post the technical details of the photo here. Using the DIY lightbox that I made some 2 years ago, I focused the 1000W incandescent light from about 45 degree from right and used a reflector from about 0 degrees on the left. This made sure there are no dark spots on the bread.

Once the lighting is setup, I used a plain white chart as the base to reflect more light up and have a glow effect. Here are the photos:

Tomato Bread (Whole)

Pie cut from the bread

A slice of the bread

Receipe: 1 cup of salted peanuts from SAMS. Thats it!

Peanut A.K.A. Groundnut

Cognizant Photographers Club announced “Food Contest” and I knew I had to participate in that. I have been shooting every bit of bread, corn flakes, water melon etc for last 1 year after I started watching “Iron Chef America”. I remembered a close friend of ours here who is a great cook. We made a deal. She will prepare food and allow me to take photos (and taste as well ) and I will let her use the photos for her blog (http://aromasfrommykitchen.blogspot.com). Do visit. There are some amazing recipes.

So the first part of that is the Chaat Time. Here are the photos:

Tomato Chaat

Sev Puri

Are you hungry?

It was bright and sunny outside. Guys and ladies had come home with food and beer! It was fun-filled potluck party at our place.

As always, I take the Grill’n job whenever I get a chance and this was no different. I decided to do Veggie and Chicken Kabobs.

The veggies were colorful which included Green apple, Green, Red and Yellow bell peppers, Potato, Pineapple, Zucinni, Squash and much more. Here are some photos!

Celebrity Kids is the Photo studio in Woodbury Lakes mall, MN. Tom Dunn, the owner of the studio was kind enough to let members of Saint Paul Camera (http://www.saintpaulcameraclub.com) use the studio for the evening of Feb19, 2008.

The “open house” started with a demo of the studio and the process he follows in developing/framing etc. Then he started giving some basic tips on how he becomes a kid when raking pictures of kids and simultaneously handles lighting/camera etc. Then the 2 big studio rooms were open to us. Here are some photos from the session…

No they are not kids!