[t]hank [g]od [i]t's [f]ood

dimly lit restaurant lighting food photo.

cheesecake and carrot [cup] cake

what i buy outside doesn't taste half as good as these.

using the 18-200mm, on-camera flash bounce.

this was taken with the 50mm. remote flash camera right, flagged with the black foamie thing and bounced to the wall.

blondies

the opposite of brownies, this is what blondies are. baked these myself. the recipe is available in the interweb.
i finally got the chance to use the DIY white bounce card i have recently made.
the lighting setup was simple. the plate was placed on a window sill and everything is just natural lighting.
i could not decide on the background so i shot it with two different colors. which one do you think is better?

on white.

on dark brown.

plate 3

pasta pene in alfredo sauce.

plate 2

grilled salmon and vegetables.

plate 1

a series of food photos. i enjoy eating and taking photos. it's a good thing the restaurant the missus and i went to was ok with me taking "casual" photography. :)

buffalo chicken for starters

salt and pepper

tea for two

cherries

the sweet-sour experience

lemon meringue pie baked by my sister-in-law.

nuts, variety

I have now in my possession a gun, a big one. Not the killing kind, more of the lighting kind. It's been two months or so since I bought a Nikon SB 900. But I haven't used it to it's full potential as a lighting tool the way the pro's do. I am now on getting-to-know-how-to-use-it-properly stage and reading a bunch of stuff at Strobist among others.

A few newbie attempts at this art. Flash is on Manual @ 1/16. Shutter speed @1/250, F-stop @1.8 for shallow Depth of Field. ISO 200 or around that neighborhood.

Here's a little more experimenting. The idea is from my brother, we lit the scene with a mobile phone led lamp(Nokia 5800) only. I hand-held my camera while he started moving his phone and lighting the nuts all through the ten seconds exposure. F-stop @ 16, ISO 100. Interestingly enough this is what was achieved:

pad see ew

The stir-fried rice noodles from a Thai fast-food my wife and I tasted last month was wonderful. Although I do not know how it (the real thing) tastes like in Thailand, I decided to give it a go and cook it myself.
This is the only image I have but the family enjoyed it.

the bread basket and a candle

Some series of photos from a recent weekend getaway with the missus.
I'll start it off with the "appetizer" we had on the first night. I loved how the Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4D handled the low-light scene.

baked chicken and cake

edmar's surprise birthday dinner.

lumpia

a little time to spare, a table lamp, good food, a camera.

a pair of pears, still life

the things you can do when you've got nothing to do. just some flash photography with a borrowed SB-800.

dragon fruits

oatmeal cookies

strawberries, which image..

..do you prefer? the first one-photoshoped or the second one-lightroomed?