Cooked with rG-tom: 28 Day Mature Rib Eye and Savoury Mash

[Participant]

My mouth is watering, looks lovely.

I prefer a flat pan as although the griddle lines look fancy, the charring gets all over the outside rather than just in lines.

The photos are terrible.

Finally, no matter how rare the steak, there will always be someone saying it's overdone. It's the manly thing to say .

 

[4p]

How can it hurt your eyes, that's how you naturally see!

Well, no.

 

[Freefaller]

I'd still eat it and enjoy it Robbie, I just genuinely like steak blue. nothing about being manly.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Well, no.

It is actually......

You never see everything in focus. Just google "human eye aperture" and see

 

[Raikiri]

Well, no.

Well, yes.

Your eye is just a lens, the 'aperture' of which can change. Hold your hand up in front of you and focus on it, everything else will go out of focus.

 

[4p]

I see how i see, don't need photo effects to help me see how i see?

Probs lost myself there haha

 

[xJcBx]

Well, yes.

Your eye is just a lens, the 'aperture' of which can change. Hold your hand up in front of you and focus on it, everything else will go out of focus.

Then surely we don't need a camera to put it out of focus for us?

Plus, I'm quite sure I can look at a steak on a plate on a plate without half of it going blurry and the mash being indistinguishable from anything else.

It's obvious thought and effort has gone into taking nice pics for a lovely thread to present, but it's just a bit too much, sorry.

 

[Serpantine]

I see how i see, don't need photo effects to help me see how i see?

Probs lost myself there haha

Just what I was thinking, articulated exceptionally.

 

[Raikiri]

Then surely we don't need a camera to put it out of focus for us?

But photos are viewed on a 2d plane, that's why you're used to everything being in focus in them. You do need a camera to put things out of focus to replicate the effect of actually viewing something.

Plus, I'm quite sure I can look at a steak on a plate on a plate without half of it going blurry and the mash being indistinguishable from anything else.

I doubt you could up close and in dim light, like those pictures are. Depth of field decreases the closer you are to a subject, as well as when there's limited light as your pupil will dilate to let more light in.

 

[xJcBx]

(Photography speak)

Touché.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Then surely we don't need a camera to put it out of focus for us?

Plus, I'm quite sure I can look at a steak on a plate on a plate without half of it going blurry and the mash being indistinguishable from anything else.

It's obvious thought and effort has gone into taking nice pics for a lovely thread to present, but it's just a bit too much, sorry.

But when a photo is taken, you are turning a 3D situation into a 2D image. Then your eyes is not going to convey that into how it would have looked.

When you take a photo on your phone camera, have you not ever think...this is not how it look? It never looked like that. Go try it now, take a photo of anything and compare to what you see.

And no need to apologise.

 

[Cosimo]

But when a photo is taken, you are turning a 3D situation into a 2D image. Then your eyes is not going to convey that into how it would have looked.

When you take a photo on your phone camera, have you not ever think...this is not how it look? It never looked like that. Go try it now, take a photo of anything and compare to what you see.

And no need to apologise.

No need for photography lessons.

 

[xJcBx]

You are right, but there's still too much blur and it hurts.

 

[Raymond Lin]

The truth is, this effect is everywhere.

Turn on the TV, anything on TV, you will notice this.

Hell, turn on BBC news, apart from the presenter, look at the background, that is out of focus too, you don't see people complain about that.

Watch any movies, it's even more prominent.

Look at any food cook books.

I think people are not used to it because they are bombarded with photos they see only on Facebook, photos that taken on a very narrow aperture, so when they see something different to that being shown on a "non professional" level, off the TV, off a book and movie screen, like on a forum, their brain just can't take it. It is literally confusing.

When the truth is that is is everywhere.

 

[Wicksta]

It's everywhere, but done by a professional it works.

Unfortunately the reduction in cost of photography equipment these days means that everyone with a zoom lens on a digital camera thinks they are a professional photographer.

 

[Gothic Draconia]

I've found an image that shows what i was thinking even though i know it is nonsense.
All of the people complaining about the photos must have their anisotropic filtering set too low. Check the photo on this Wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering

 

[Raymond Lin]

It's everywhere, but done by a professional it works.

Unfortunately the reduction in cost of photography equipment these days means that everyone with a zoom lens on a digital camera thinks they are a professional photographer.

When it is works, it works, whether it is professionally or whether it is for fun.

As for reduction in the cost of photography equipment, i could have done that on a camera that is 50 years old on film that cost peanuts. It is nothing to do with costs, it is to do with how to.

And OP's camera and lens is value about the same as most hatchbacks...

And instead of saying "the mash is blur", it would be more accurate to put "I want to see what the mash looks like too". As the intention of the steak photo was the steak, not the mash.

 

[Cosimo]

Unfortunately the reduction in cost of photography equipment these days means that everyone with a zoom lens on a digital camera thinks they are a professional photographer.

Well we know there aren't any in GD cooking threads.

 

[Efour]

if it didn't hurt my eyes i wouldn't of said it...

if you only want me to look at a 1cm square area of the steak why post all the blur?

seriously tho it did hurt my eyes... lol

 

[sigma]

I eagerly await further threads from photographers taking blury photographs and giving lessons on how to cook steak.

Perhaps do toast though please next time, it's at the same difficulty level as cooking steak, if not a bit harder!