Usually I go out for work at 6:30 am (before sun rise), coming back 3:30 pm and sometimes 4 pm (half an hour before sunset) .. but this week a little bit relaxing .. the reason is that my company nominated me for engineering drawing course which started last Sunday for one week. Now I’m getting up 8am instead of going out 6:30 early morning, and coming back 2pm instead of 4pm.
I’m happy because I can practice more shooting with my new camera during day time. I can also prepare my recipes and shoot them using natural light without needing to be in a hurry. The sunset time in Kuwait now a days is 4:50pm. Which makes my cooking and shooting time short and very demanding. I have to be very quick which is not always a good thing to do.
I also searched in the internet for food photography tips and techniques, the result was so impressing! I found dozens and dozens of food blogs which gives a lot of information and tutorials focused on food photography. I didn’t know that all of these websites existed. I didn’t know that food blogging and photography is promising. So I decided to list some of them for people who are interested in food photography as a reference. Note: all the URLs (the posts links are listed here only) of the blogs or websites home pages will be listed also in the resources section for further information.
The first article is Food Photography for Bloggers (from VeganYumYum blog) one of the best posts I ever read about food photography. writing especially for food bloggers. If you are a beginner like me you will get a lot of useful information which you can start with.
The second article is Photography Tips (from White on Rice Couple blog) another interesting post, which provides tutorials on Exposure, Shutter Speed and Aperture concepts and techniques. ISO, White Balance, Using your built in flash, Speedlight flash ON and OFF camera, Using multiple Speedlight flashes, Natural light food photography and Photography inside restaurants kitchens and capturing Chefs in action. All are photography tutorials which will be listed in future.
Other interesting articles are listed in The Pioneer Woman blog. The first is What a difference an f-stop Makes, short post on how much the wider aperture setting softened the background. Aperture Setting and Depth-of -Field, what the Heck is Shutter Speed? are also useful.
Composition and angle from junglefrog-cooking.com is a very good technical article. The blog also contain Photography howto section which offers different posts on food photography.
Food Photo 101 section in nikas-culinaria.com blog, also have a full index for food photography topics.
Food Photography tips posted on 101cookbooks.com provides a variety of food photography tips.
There is also food photography online courses. The perfect picture school of photography is one of these online schools.
Stilllifewith.com is a complete blog it talks about food styling and photography. Very professional, authentic and real.
There are many articles and posts on food photography out there, so I will have created a special section and list and update them to make a reference for all who are interested in food photography topics. Hope that it will be useful for me and you as well.
Tabola is a very well know Lebanese salad. not only in the Arabic world, but in the whole world. The recipe may differ in some ingredients but the main ingredients are the same in every recipe.
you will need
2 medium tomatoes diced
1 cup finely chopped green onions
2 medium bunches of Parsley
4 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup fine or medium Burghul
preparing
Soak the burghul for 10 minutes in warm water. Then drain it by pressing water out through a fine strainer. For the Parsley, wash thoroughly and stem it. Then finely chop it.
In big bowl, mix vegetables, Burghul, pepper, salt and lemon juice . Then place the salad in a serving dish.
enjoy with love,
Maryam
