DSS #124 The Art of Food

JAG · March 4, 2013

Welcome to Round #124 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges.

This challenge is for all dgrin members.

It will run from Monday, March 4, 2013 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8) on through Monday, March 18, 2013 8:00pm PST time (GMT -8).

The theme this round for your interpretation will be: The Art of Food

Not looking for just your ordinary "here's whats for dinner" type of shot. Rather, be creative with your food!

Make your set up be colorful and unique! The food should look appetizing as well as like a piece of art that you would hang on the wall! Lighting, backgrounds, plates, patterns, shapes....all should be taken into account. Make it look professional! Even a point and shoot camera can accomplish this if you experiment a little with lighting and positioning and all the other things mentioned above!

Create a work of art with your photography!

Here are some examples:
1. 2. 3. 4.

No editing restrictions!

Your Judge:
1 round 72 Hour Public Vote.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a SmugMug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page:

DSS 124 Gallery

Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your EXIF will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge RULES.

rteest42 · March 5, 2013

We are gonna be HUNGRY by the end of this one!

Cambyses · March 5, 2013

This one will test not just our photography skills, but our cooking and food styling skills too! I'm afraid we have to visit a fancy restaurant with all our equipment (mini backdrop, reflector, etc.), order a very nice entrée, and take pictures. It may look a bit awkward to the other customers, and it will probably cost us a lot more than the prize we may actually win

JAG · March 5, 2013

Cambyses wrote: »

This one will test not just our photography skills, but our cooking and food styling skills too! I'm afraid we have to visit a fancy restaurant with all our equipment (mini backdrop, reflector, etc.), order a very nice entrée, and take pictures. It may look a bit awkward to the other customers, and it will probably cost us a lot more than the prize we may actually win

Check out the examples links or do a search on food art, its doesn't have to be expensive to be creative!

DonRicklin · March 6, 2013

I absolutely love the concept and rendition of #2! WOW!

I'll likely not take part in this one.

But look forward to other's entries.

Don

travelways · March 6, 2013

DonRicklin wrote: »

I absolutely love the concept and rendition of #2! WOW!

I'll likely not take part in this one.

But look forward to other's entries.

Don

Actually #2 impresses me for the hand crafting skills of whoever made that piece of art from vegetables.
However in terms of photography, to me it looks like just a simple point and shoot - nothing special...

DonRicklin · March 6, 2013

travelways wrote: »

Actually #2 impresses me for the hand crafting skills of whoever made that piece of art from vegetables.
However in terms of photography, to me it looks like just a simple point and shoot - nothing special...

Exactly. Not impressed with the photography, but the art of the vegetable image!

Don

Tango · March 6, 2013

Cambyses wrote: »

This one will test not just our photography skills, but our cooking and food styling skills too! I'm afraid we have to visit a fancy restaurant with all our equipment (mini backdrop, reflector, etc.), order a very nice entrée, and take pictures. It may look a bit awkward to the other customers, and it will probably cost us a lot more than the prize we may actually win

work the angle! have the owner set you up in the office, bring you plate after plate of what they want photographed for their adverts and you eat each one as you go.... bring the family to help with the lighting and food eating...lol

Tango · March 6, 2013

travelways wrote: »

Actually #2 impresses me for the hand crafting skills of whoever made that piece of art from vegetables.
However in terms of photography, to me it looks like just a simple point and shoot - nothing special...

phhht! simple point and shooters! achh! get them from thou ist sight!

JAG · March 6, 2013

DonRicklin wrote: »

Exactly. Not impressed with the photography, but the art of the vegetable image!

Don

Indeed! I posted it not for the lousy p&s quality, but to give people possibility ideas!

Tango · March 6, 2013

I suggest stop posting examples... heck this is the second time now my initial thought in my minds eye of the stated theme was only to be squashed by an example posted....(pizza image) and btw, I will enter with a P&S just as I usually do:D.... dslr snobbies:D

JAG · March 7, 2013

Tango wrote: »

I suggest stop posting examples... heck this is the second time now my initial thought in my minds eye of the stated theme was only to be squashed by an example posted....(pizza image) and btw, I will enter with a P&S just as I usually do:D.... dslr snobbies:D

The samples are just that. If you had an idea of doing a pizza then do it!

Tango · March 7, 2013

JAG wrote: »

The samples are just that. If you had an idea of doing a pizza then do it!

lol, no way! the example is better than I could do it!

Memol · March 8, 2013

This time it would be difficult. My foods are mostly ugly. Several times I tried to decorate my son's breakfast plate so he eats better, but he did not care at all and as he loves fruit he only picked the fruits. After that I did not try anymore. I have to be creative a little bit for this round

JAG · March 12, 2013

are you all stumped on this one????!

Tango · March 12, 2013

I have my minds eye.... execution is the problem...

PedalGirl · March 12, 2013

JAG wrote: »

are you all stumped on this one????!

I've worked on a few... have a few more ideas that I'm going to work on this weekend. I've pulled together lots of inspiration photos ... so lots of ideas going through my head.

grandmaR · March 12, 2013

Originally I was going to do a recreation of my grandson's picture and use a cabbage head overlaid with rare roast beef with slices of cucumber for glasses, and raspberries with blueberries in the middle for eyes. But my husband (who does the cooking and shopping) used up the roast beef tonight. I thought maybe tomatoes for the mouth (side for lips and seeds for teeth to give him an uncharacteristic smile) and a carrot chunk for the nose and probably broccoli for the hair and beard and maybe a mutton chop mustache.

He's relatively more cleanshaven here - he usually looks like some kind of mountain man and has so much face hair that you can't tell if he is smiling or not

I can visualize what I want to do, but actually going to the kitchen and standing there (there are no chairs in the kitchen) long enough to craft the head, is probably beyond my capability.

Tango · March 13, 2013

I imagine making a cabbage & roast into a head of your grandson would be a challenge.... here I thought I was being creative making a cup of coffee look steamy....

Memol · March 13, 2013

I have about 7 ideas, but 1. I don't have time to make them. 2. If I make them my son will take them before I get a chance to take a picture, 3. The good camera is in the repair shop, 4. I have some of the ingredients and by the time I go and shop the rest either we have eaten the first ingredients or they will get old

grandmaR · March 13, 2013

Tango wrote: »

I imagine making a cabbage & roast into a head of your grandson would be a challenge.... here I thought I was being creative making a cup of coffee look steamy....

Think toothpicks

Tango · March 13, 2013

so you're going for the "hellraiser" look?

grandmaR · March 13, 2013

I went to a Chinese buffet today - by accident. I had a package to mail and non-glare glasses to pick up for my husband and I thought we could go out to dinner. But the place I had a coupon for didn't have dinner hours on Weds. So we went down the road a piece and saw the New York Buffet, which for some reason I thought would be pizza. But it wasn't - it was Chinese. So when I picked up my food, I rearranged it on the plate and took a photo. I thought it looked a little like the Natty Boh logo which was for National Bohemian Beer. But I didn't have but one olive and nothing big enough for the monocle. So it is only like the logo if you squint and use a lot of imagination.

grandmaR · March 13, 2013

Tango wrote: »

so you're going for the "hellraiser" look?

It wouldn't be inappropriate. I don't know if he's got piercings but he has a bunch of tattoos

JAG · March 14, 2013

grandmaR wrote: »

I went to a Chinese buffet today - by accident. I had a package to mail and non-glare glasses to pick up for my husband and I thought we could go out to dinner. But the place I had a coupon for didn't have dinner hours on Weds. So we went down the road a piece and saw the New York Buffet, which for some reason I thought would be pizza. But it wasn't - it was Chinese. So when I picked up my food, I rearranged it on the plate and took a photo. I thought it looked a little like the Natty Boh logo which was for National Bohemian Beer. But I didn't have but one olive and nothing big enough for the monocle. So it is only like the logo if you squint and use a lot of imagination

now that's being creative on the move!

JAG · March 17, 2013

Wow! Only 11 entries so far and just about 36 hours left! This cannot be so difficult! Here is one I took with my cell phone. Not super Sharp but was easy to do! I call this piece of work "Coronary on a Plate" . And before anyone gets all excited, the border and distressed edges would not be allowed in this challenge. I didn't take the pic for the challenge. I took it to show just how good my meal of the day was that day! That's a 1 pound potato! Parmesan and garlic encrusted goodness with home made 4 cheese sauce and sprinkled with crushed French fried onion rings and Bacon bits....hhmmm!

Earache · March 17, 2013

JAG wrote: »

..... I didn't take the pic for the challenge. I took it to show just how good my meal of the day was that day! That's a 1 pound potato! Parmesan and garlic encrusted goodness with home made 4 cheese sauce and sprinkled with crushed French fried onion rings and Bacon bits....hhmmm!

I don't care that you're not entering - you win anyway!!

I won't be able to think about anything but this potato, for the rest of the day!

grandmaR · March 17, 2013

I thought you said we were to play with our food - not just take a photo of what we had for dinner. I take photos of almost all the food we eat (when we aren't at home). If I thought I could just use a photo of food, I'd have gone someplace and taken a photo of food. When I'm on a cruise I take photos of almost all the food. Like

One day on a cruise ship

But that's not playing with the food or the photo.

JAG · March 17, 2013

GrandmaR, playing with the food or doing a setup shot is what is expected. The potato is more of a what I had to eat type shot, however I did consider my background and lighting before the shoot, including the fork and knife. Had to consider the lighting carefully because my phone camera really sucks when it comes to flash!

grandmaR · March 17, 2013

Well I guess I don't understand the difference.

kdotaylor · March 18, 2013

JAG wrote: »

Wow! Only 11 entries so far and just about 36 hours left! This cannot be so difficult! Here is one I took with my cell phone. Not super Sharp but was easy to do! I call this piece of work "Coronary on a Plate" . And before anyone gets all excited, the border and distressed edges would not be allowed in this challenge. I didn't take the pic for the challenge. I took it to show just how good my meal of the day was that day! That's a 1 pound potato! Parmesan and garlic encrusted goodness with home made 4 cheese sauce and sprinkled with crushed French fried onion rings and Bacon bits....hhmmm!

Oh, my....I want that!

DSS #124 The Art of Food

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