I have started attending this course.

I know I will never be an even half-way decent food photographer. I just need to learn how to make a photo of curries, dals etc. not look completely disgusting.

For great food photography, I have too many “dogmes”.

For one, I have no tolerance for food waste, so I need to know how to plan a shoot so that I can eat the food afterwards, and not let it go completely cold, or worse: spray it with toxins to make it look better.

I don’t like too many completely unnecessary props such as crumpled up pieces of textile draped around or next to a plate.

I also do not like drops of sauces or juices on the table, as if they have been spilled. Together with the above mentioned dish cloths, this seems to be the new black in food photography. I find it annoying and wonder why they did not clean it up before they took the photo.

I don’t have the patience to set up too many objects or lights, especially not studio lights (I don’t have many suitable objects and other than one speedlight, I do not own studio lights and I am not about to acquire any. I am at the age of purging rather than hoarding, and bringing too many things out from cupboards and drawers and then having to put them away again afterwards is a waste of time and crashing bore.

But other than that 🙂 ……. So my photos will be boring and the most I can hope for is that the food does not look like the dog’s diarrhea.

The assignment for week 1 is five photos of this week’s produce: