Some Pictures Took that I Like- Enjoy!!

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Tron,

Using gimp I've adjusted the levels and contrast on all of these. My camera tends, even without flash, to take pictures a little washed out, so I'm mostly correcting for that. These are less produced than a lot of my food pictures, which sometimes have the contrast ramped up by 50% (part that is being indoors with bad photo lighting and a [censored] flash).

Frankly, the biggest part of post production is just artfully cropping the images. Makes a huge difference in terms of composition and stuff like that.

A good deal of this I learned from my father, and infrequent OOT poster Spanaway Vin.

The more I get into this, the more likely it is that i'm going to end up dropping money on an SLR.

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Wow, perhaps 'cause the book sucks hard and is just horribly written.


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Steingarten often comes off as a pompous ass, but I do appreciate his obsessiveness when it comes to some of his food essays.

Which Ruth Reichl book to read first?

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Seriously, I love food writing but can't stand Steingarten. The guy will write a piece about some food that regular schlubs eat and make sound like he's a war journalist toughing it out in Bosnia.

I'd recommend Alan Richman's Fork it Over as the best collection of essays/stories on food and drink.