BFS - Bread

Looking how I can enhance results composing the food on the plate... I decided to try my hand at it with the Bread.

Some friend of mine gave me a Bread baking machine (It's really simple to operate... just puor the ingredients you fine on the recipe book in the bucket and it will give you a piece of bread 3 hours later^_^).... So we were (ant we still are!) baking our own bread.

I decided to frame the shot in diagonal cutting some big bread slices an using a wood plate (it is specifically designed for cutting bread upon it but I do not know the English word (neither the Italian one to say the full truth!) for it!
For shooting it I used the Nikon 50 mm f/1.4
In post production I went for a low contrast development in order to enhance the feeling of smoothness... following a similar Idea I desaturated the image a little...

Exif Reads
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:42:55
Exposure Time: 1/40 sec.
Aperture Value: 2.00 EV (f/2.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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BFS - Meat in the plate...

My sister insisted for a shot of the kebab in the plate... and insisted on composing herself the plate...

How could I refuse?

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:23:57
Exposure Time: 1/40 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.00 EV (f/4.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 50.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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BFS - Meat!

The second course was a kebab of pork with pepperoni and served with some olives.

I've taken 2 shots, the first one was taken when the meat was still on the grill (we do not have a barbecue!).

I wanted to give the idea of abundance or of a pub where they were cooking this course... it is better conveyed from the shot than described in my poor English!
It was taken with the Nikon AF-D 28-105 f/3.5-4.5

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:19:46
Exposure Time: 1/13 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.14 EV (f/4.2)
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 52.0 mm

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Better food shots (BFS) - Pasta

The first day of 2009... My sister was at home and helped my mother in getting a good meal for alla of us.

After some starters we fasted on a good portion of pasta with "besciamella" and steamed ham.
Really good.

My sister helped me in composing the shot... but I had to change the whita balance in PP as it was not good...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:15:18
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec.
Aperture Value: 5.31 EV (f/6.3)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 50.0 mm

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Yummy Chocolate...

A Christmas present my mother got from one of her students. It's a chocolate bar shaped as a piece of wood and my mother wanted it to be shot.

I jumped on the occasion in order to confront my self with still-life food photo... It was a failure!

I had only a flash and used the AF-S 18-200 in order to take the shot... it is not a good photo and moreover I used the red-eye reduction (Why on the earth I did something like that?)..

I still do not have a still life softbox but I could have used some linen instead of a trasparent table!

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:26 20:06:11
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash fired
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 56.0 mm

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