Village Idiot
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Good work, I like the idea...52. Now are you gonna always shoot on the same day(ie: mondays)? You know 365 is one a day, 52 one a week...spaced out evenly?
I'd like to see the second shot with a dramatic lighting, it seems like he could be planning to do something other than cutting a piece of meat with that knife.
Are you looking for C&C on this, VI?
The 2nd image is more or less just a by product of what I'm doing. I'd rather hear any words you have on the first.
the steaks look... gray-ish..., but that always could be the fault of my monitor.
the steaks look... gray-ish..., but that always could be the fault of my monitor.
They look nicely aged if you ask me
Sh!t... now I'm hungry for a steak!the steaks look... gray-ish..., but that always could be the fault of my monitor.
They look nicely aged if you ask me
21 day old dry aged New York strips with a fine coating of salt and pepper.
My friend brad cooks at a hotel and conference center where the chef lets him purchase food for cost. It has benefitted us greatly.
Agreed! The hammer was a stretch, but the only thing that I could come up with!I thought the hammer next to a 1/2 gallon plastic jug of cheap vodka meant he was going to get "hammered"...I figure a guy who likes to cook and who owns a good chef's knife probably has a proper meat tenderizer--either a hammer-style one or a mechanical multi-cutter restaurant style tenderizer.
I see what Rufus is talking about with the strobe light overpowering the in-the-scene household lighting...
I think the white balance of the strobed lighting looks too cold, and makes Brad's hands and face look a bit too cold. The steaks--mmm.....you guys know how to eat! I love aged steaks with pepper coats!
RUfus is right to question the background and the clock being cropped off--the chef clock is an interesting tie-in to the main subject, while the red pot on the right hand side of the frame is less important to me than that cool chef's clock.
Shots like this are fun to look at very carefully,and once can spend a lot of time looking and scrutinizing all sorts of things--the lens's barrel distortion,the exposure, specular highlights on the rear cupboards, various elements, the three bottles of liquor, the screwdriver he's mixed, and why there's a gallon water in the frame...this has a lot of elements of an old time painted portrait.