Sharing my Lunch with all you lovelies......

[Jasii]

Stir fried noodles, roast spud with some leftover veggies. (leftover hence, banished into oblivion)
Would love to recieve oodles of critique.

Lunch today Stir fried noodles, spuds and some left over veggies. by jasiiboss, on Flickr

 

[Raj_55555]

Great! Now I'm hungry again!

 

[Jasii]

Great! Now I'm hungry again!

Lol Raaj! BTW where is the critique my friend?

 

[Raj_55555]

Great! Now I'm hungry again!

Lol Raaj! BTW where is the critique my friend?

I wouldn't know where to start Jassi ji, I'm afraid food photography isn't exactly my forte! Let me know if you shoot some animals!

 

[waday]

Looks delicious!

For critique, I'd say slightly higher angle, higher exposure, and close down your aperture. I'm intrigued by what's in the back, but it's either hidden by the noodles or blurred. A higher angle and slightly larger DOF might take care of that?

Also, I know some people don't mind food being cropped, but I don't like the noodles being cropped here. I'd center the food in the front and close that gap, so move the potato to the right a bit and the noodles to the left a bit. That is, if you haven't eaten it already!

 

[Jasii]

Looks delicious!

For critique, I'd say slightly higher angle, higher exposure, and close down your aperture. I'm intrigued by what's in the back, but it's either hidden by the noodles or blurred. A higher angle and slightly larger DOF might take care of that?

Also, I know some people don't mind food being cropped, but I don't like the noodles being cropped here. I'd center the food in the front and close that gap, so move the potato to the right a bit and the noodles to the left a bit. That is, if you haven't eaten it already!

Thank you for the exhaustive, appreciate it.
Here's my take behind taking the pic:
I had already put the food on the plate, hence, this was not a planned 'Food shot'
The plate consisted of Freshly cooked noodles and the spud,both looked lovely, not so much the leftover veggies from yesternight which were kind of mushy and a poor candidate for featuring in a food pic.
The best thing in the circumstance was to shoot perpendicular (nearly) to the plane, get the spud and the noodles in focus and obliviate the rest hence the setting:
F 8.0, ISO 100, Exposure 8 secs.
I do agree with your thoughts about the cropped noodles.
Thank you once again.

 

[waday]

Looks delicious!

For critique, I'd say slightly higher angle, higher exposure, and close down your aperture. I'm intrigued by what's in the back, but it's either hidden by the noodles or blurred. A higher angle and slightly larger DOF might take care of that?

Also, I know some people don't mind food being cropped, but I don't like the noodles being cropped here. I'd center the food in the front and close that gap, so move the potato to the right a bit and the noodles to the left a bit. That is, if you haven't eaten it already!

Thank you for the exhaustive, appreciate it.
Here's my take behind taking the pic:
I had already put the food on the plate, hence, this was not a planned 'Food shot'
The plate consisted of Freshly cooked noodles and the spud,both looked lovely, not so much the leftover veggies from yesternight which were kind of mushy and a poor candidate for featuring in a food pic.
The best thing in the circumstance was to shoot perpendicular (nearly) to the plane, get the spud and the noodles in focus and obliviate the rest hence the setting:
F 8.0, ISO 100, Exposure 8 secs.
I do agree with your thoughts about the cropped noodles.
Thank you once again.

Understood. Just curious, why not increase ISO for a shorter exposure time?

 

[Jasii]

Understood. Just curious, why not increase ISO for a shorter exposure time?

You got me there Chief!
The canon 600d does not score very high at noise control and I was on a tripod so thought why not go long.......
Just trying to delve deeper what effect would it have on the image say at ISO 400 and 2 sec exposure?
Rgds,

 

[waday]

I have a Canon XSi/450D, so I understand your concern about raising the ISO. I think you could get away with 400 without much noise. You can also correct a lot of noise in post.

Just trying to delve deeper what effect would it have on the image say at ISO 400 and 2 sec exposure?

You could eat that delicious food faster?

 

[tirediron]

First and foremost, I think a higher angle would benefit the image; looking down at the plate in a similar manner to that which you would, were it a plate of food in front of you (the two items in the background are almost obscured by those in the foreground). Second, I think the the colours/WB need some tweaking; the yellow channel seems very high to me, and, I think, including the whole plate or at least a crop which indicates that omitting some was intentional might help. That said, it's a good start and food photography is NOT an easy thing to master.

 

[Jasii]

I have a Canon XSi/450D, so I understand your concern about raising the ISO. I think you could get away with 400 without much noise. You can also correct a lot of noise in post.

Just trying to delve deeper what effect would it have on the image say at ISO 400 and 2 sec exposure?

You could eat that delicious food faster?

Cannot find fault there.......
Thanks and Cheers!

 

[Jasii]

First and foremost, I think a higher angle would benefit the image; looking down at the plate in a similar manner to that which you would, were it a plate of food in front of you (the two items in the background are almost obscured by those in the foreground). Second, I think the the colours/WB need some tweaking; the yellow channel seems very high to me, and, I think, including the whole plate or at least a crop which indicates that omitting some was intentional might help. That said, it's a good start and food photography is NOT an easy thing to master.

Agree about the angle bit, next time I'll prep better.
The warmth of the yellow was intentional and was due to reflected light from a tungsten uplighter, but point taken.
Do we have an expert member here whose work I could peruse vis a vis 'Food Photography'
Thank you for your thoughts