{"id":1664,"date":"2012-01-27T23:39:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:12:04","slug":"he-likes-to-take-pictures-of-his-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/he-likes-to-take-pictures-of-his-food\/","title":{"rendered":"“He likes to take pictures of his food.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Those familiar with my Google+ stream<\/a> will have noticed I take a lot of pictures of food, generally posted in my album Cuisininart<\/a> (pictures of food – cuisine in art – cuisin-in-art – a riff on cuisinart – get it? No? Oh, you don’t WANT to get it. Oh well.).<\/p>\n

This got started because I wanted to do restaurant reviews on this site. I love eating out; I’m a definite foodie, and I think a lot about what makes a good restaurant, from a dive bar to a five star. I’ve evendone a few<\/a> reviews but I noticed I wasn’t writing reviews because I wasn’t taking pictures. <\/p>\n

I prefer using pictures in blog posts based on the ideas of my good friend Jim Davies<\/a> (and seconded by my wife Sandi Billingsley<\/a>) who both think pictures make blog posts stronger. This is basic comics theory<\/a>: words and pictures are stronger together.<\/p>\n

So I started taking pictures. As usual, I found I was really good at collecting input, not so much at producing output<\/a>. I was taking pictures all the time and not doing things with them because most of my free time is spent writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Around the time Google+ came out, I had a brainflash: why don’t I just post the pictures I’ve taken as a way of using them up<\/a>. So I created the Cusininart<\/a> album … which prompted me to take more and more pictures, even without reviews in mind.<\/p>\n

I got so good at taking pictures of what I was eating it became a joke. My wife once explained it to a friend joining us for dinner: “He likes to take pictures of his food.” Which in turn prompted this post of me explaining this to you.<\/p>\n

But I’m trying to turn this into more than just random photographs. Following the example of people like Jim Davies<\/a>, Andy Fossett<\/a> and Waldemar Horwat<\/a>, I’m trying to make this a learning experience, to discover how to take good pictures of food.<\/p>\n

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What I’ve found so far isn’t scientific by any stretch of the imagination; consider this lessons learned from a few case studies. <\/p>\n