Food presentation on the forum

MaC122

Who tries to make a perfect presentation of their cooking masterpiece before posting to the forum? My wife thinks I'm an idiot for blowing the crumbs away, getting the right light, and placing the food in just the right position. Haha.

Mind you I'm not very good at it but I am learning from you guys!

fusionhq

I don't bother with it unless it's stunning...

NPHuskerFL

Everytime.   Even when I don't post it. If it's worth doing it's worth doing right. HuskerMaMa even gets into it so I'm good there. She'll jokingly say get the photo op done quickly so we can eat. It's all good man.  

Tinyfish

Join the club...your wife just has to get used to it or else cook her food in the oven .

theyolksonyou

It's so bad at my house that my son has started plating and photoing his plate if I'm not home. It's infectious. 

Egghead_Daron

Same here. Family pretty much knows to give me a minute until I can get pictures taken. However, I am still horrible about actually posting my cooks on here. I vowed to do better and haven't done much better. I need to renew my vow again and get on it.

oldgeezeystax

I always try to take good pictures of the grub I make but the poor lighting in my house screws it all up.  Here's to warmer temperatures and cooking/photographing/eating outside!

Eggcelsior

@oldgeezeystax Nice avatar. Where are you in Frederick? I live in Worman's Mill.

oldgeezeystax

Thank you sir.  I'm right on 12th, nice to 'meet' a local egg'er!

Eggcelsior

OP, depends. If I have my real camera out, I will do it up right, even setting up bounce effect. With the potato camera? Nah. But I make sure every one knows that crappy cell phone pics are coming. 

MaC122

theyolksonyou said:

It's so bad at my house that my son has started plating and photoing his plate if I'm not home. It's infectious. 

Thanks for the idea. Gonna get my 2 year old into plating now!

Eggcelsior said:

OP, depends. If I have my real camera out, I will do it up right, even setting up bounce effect. With the potato camera? Nah. But I make sure every one knows that crappy cell phone pics are coming. 

Think I need a real camera now, too. Old iPhone just isn't brining it home.

Eggcelsior

It's a lot of fun once you find things that you really enjoy shooting. I like landscapes and low-light portraits. I've just started playing more with flash photography. 

The downside is that it can become a much more expensive habit than the egg

Skiddymarker

Always try to plate it nice, SWMBO sometimes thinks I'm a tad OCD. Seldom take pics as I suck as a photographer and there doesn't seem to be time.....

johnmitchell

Yep my wife thinks I am nuts..I enjoy it and she's cool with that..

TTC

I am a terrible photographer, but I have been taking pics of my food long before buying an Egg or learning of this forum. I just enjoy having the memories, especially when I do good....

Lit

Not so much into it. I like seeing some of the other posters pics but I am more into eating it.

johnkitchens

Lit said:

Not so much into it. I like seeing some of the other posters pics but I am more into eating it.

I agree. I can't take a good plated pic. 

NPHuskerFL

@johnkitchens  

johnkitchens

You are a nice guy Blake! 

SaltySam

make sure to include the fork in your plated shot.  To put it over the top, use an iPhone, for max blurryness.

I kid.  Don't do that. 

bboulier

Not much effort, especially this time of year.  I am often cooking in the dark and cold and hungry when it's time to eat.  I like photography, but just don't have the time right now.  When we get better whether and later daylight hours, the shots may improve.

johnkitchens

SaltySam said:

make sure to include the fork in your plated shot.  To put it over the top, use an iPhone, for max blurryness.

I kid.  Don't do that. 

Is a plastic fork, paper plate, and a droid phone ok? I don't have an iPhone. 

mtbguy

I'm lucky if I remember to get pic.

Ozzie_Isaac

This is my everyday dinner setup.  No need to pretty it up.

MaC122

Ozzie_Isaac said:

This is my everyday dinner setup.  No need to pretty it up.

very proper...eating forks on the left...work your way in with each meal

Zmokin

MaC122 said:

Who tries to make a perfect presentation of their cooking masterpiece before posting to the forum? My wife thinks I'm an idiot for blowing the crumbs away, getting the right light, and placing the food in just the right position. Haha.

Mind you I'm not very good at it but I am learning from you guys!

Never, I'm in too much of a rush to start eating.  I'm lucky if I even remember to take a pic.  But spend time making it pretty, that's just delaying my first bite.  My taste buds don't care how it looks, they care how it tastes and how warm it is.

hapster

I don't know what you guys are talking about...

caliking

I love the presentation aspect of a good cook.

I was pissed about the lighting in the kitchen... so I changed out the recessed lights. I was pissed about the kitchen table lighting... so I changed that light. Then I used caliprince's birth as an excuse to buy a "real" camera so I could take better pics of food... I mean of the baby. Then  I bought fancier  plates, etc. so I could take prettier plated pics.

SWMBO has even stopped rolling her eyes at me now.

fishlessman

i just fix my plate up, even when not taking pics then i fix every one elses to look like a slop plate from the cafeteria that'll teach them for rushing things

Cookinbob

I get enough grief just for taking pics of my cooks and plate.  As a result, they are usually quickies when she is not looking!  Wife states correctly that I have more pictures of food than of her

tz666

Im a paper plate kind of guy, unless its a special occasion or something I have to cut with a steak knife. Its hard to make a plated masterpiece on a paper plate, so I just get the shot and eat. Keeping it real.