----- Original Message ----- From: "John Celio" Subject: OT: "The Dirty Tricks of Food Photographers"
> Interesting article on how some photographers shoot food: > http://www.photocritic.org/2008/food-photo-tricks > > Some of it I knew, but most of it was new to me. Makes me want to go buy > some meat and shoe polish just to see how I'd do. They forgot to mention green spray paint to give salads that extra vim, and they only mentioned those very versatile mashed potatoes in passing. I have used powdered potato to stand in for everything from ice cream (with a lovely 10W-40 sauce to add to the delicacy of the menu) to whipped cream, to keep the glycerine shiny pies looking like they just came out of momma's kitchen. They also didn't mention the food photographer's very best friend, the Hudson's Bay store, which stocks some of the nicest cutlery, plates and table dressings, which, for some reason, they will sell to you on a Monday, and happily refund your purchase on Thursday, but are less happy about it if you purchase on Friday, and return on Monday..... Go figure.... William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
