Not really if you where good at photography, would you do rubbish shots just to keep a few forum people happy. DOF makes food photos look at any modern cookbook or website and they are done this way. The focus is the food not the background.
Cooking with Raymond (Italian) - Flamed Pepper/Mozzarella/tomato salad + Pancetta/Liver/Mushroom Tag
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Not really if you where good at photography, would you do rubbish shots just to keep a few forum people happy. DOF makes food photos look at any modern cookbook or website and they are done this way. The focus is the food not the background.
Caporegime
I agree, except only about 10% of the food is in focus.
Soldato
Looked great until I saw the Liver. eww
that's clearly rubbish, even the really focused ones are still 50% in focus. Take the tomato slicing. The tomatoes are the focal point and are in focus, so what if the sliced mushrooms are out of focus.
Soldato
Haha, same! I'd make it without the liver, looks awesome.
Also pics look great, the DOF makes the food stand out, which is the point.
Caporegime
I'd have to disagree. Look at this one:
I reckon about three tomatoes are in focus!
Anyway back to the food. Clearly you are an accomplished cook and photographer (and marketer
).
Soldato
Do you want to see the food or do you want to see the rim of my sauce pan?
It is a sauce pan, what's there to see? I dunno why people crit about my pictures when I took it to show food. If I wanted crit on the photos I post it on the photography forum?
I think its probably because you have your name stamp on the corner of them, so people then feel they can be criticial.
I and others enjoy the pictures and the food threads, so dont let a few moaning minnies put you off.
Dear Photography Critics
I have been thinking about this and some point last night it even annoyed me, about how some people are ungrateful, complain about petty little things. I took time out to photograph, put a £3,000 camera & lens in front of fire, oil and boiling water and they complain about the photographs. When my intention is about the food. I am also bitterly disappointed that some people would even complain in the first place and would think I have a motive to pimp my pictures. If I want to pimp my pictures, I would spam the forum with random photographs of anything and everything in every thread daily. Not spend money on ingredients.
I even had the idea that the next time (should I start another cooking thread), I would take 2 sets of pictures. I would take one using my 5Dii, and another using a disposable camera with the built in flash in order to keep the moaners happy. Trust me, that my kitchen is dark, with the built in flash, all you will see is a wash of white light.
Then I had a thought, why the hell would I do that? That would be lowering myself to your level, being petty about it. I like taking nice pictures and I am doing a nice thing here am I not, that I am contributing to the forum am I not? Does food threads HAVE to come with photographs that comes out of a point and shoot? Is there a rule that prevent me to shoot with my DSLR?
With the greatest respect, if you don't like it, there is not much I am going to do about it. If you want to look at average/rubbish looking food photos, may I suggest you go take some yourself, because I am not going to change because of you. I am not going to compromise myself and my photography for you. And to be honest, photographing food is relative easy in comparison to photographing people. It is just as easy for me to take a photo with my 5Dii than with my iPhone. Not to mention I do not have to justify my style of photography to you and I do not owe you anything.
Lastly, you don't find me criticising other people's threads about their photography skills when they post photos of any sort in GD (food thread or not), why do you feel the need to judge mine when it is posted in GD?
Yours faithfully
I have been thinking about this and some point last night it even annoyed me, about how some people are ungrateful, complain about petty little things. I took time out to photograph, put a £3,000 camera & lens in front of fire, oil and boiling water and they complain about the photographs. When my intention is about the food. I am also bitterly disappointed that some people would even complain in the first place and would think I have a motive to pimp my pictures. If I want to pimp my pictures, I would spam the forum with random photographs of anything and everything in every thread daily. Not spend money on ingredients.
I even had the idea that the next time (should I start another cooking thread), I would take 2 sets of pictures. I would take one using my 5Dii, and another using a disposable camera with the built in flash in order to keep the moaners happy. Trust me, that my kitchen is dark, with the built in flash, all you will see is a wash of white light.
Then I had a thought, why the hell would I do that? That would be lowering myself to your level, being petty about it. I like taking nice pictures and I am doing a nice thing here am I not, that I am contributing to the forum am I not? Does food threads HAVE to come with photographs that comes out of a point and shoot? Is there a rule that prevent me to shoot with my DSLR?
With the greatest respect, if you don't like it, there is not much I am going to do about it. If you want to look at average/rubbish looking food photos, may I suggest you go take some yourself, because I am not going to change because of you. I am not going to compromise myself and my photography for you. And to be honest, photographing food is relative easy in comparison to photographing people. It is just as easy for me to take a photo with my 5Dii than with my iPhone. Not to mention I do not have to justify my style of photography to you and I do not owe you anything.
Lastly, you don't find me criticising other people's threads about their photography skills when they post photos of any sort in GD (food thread or not), why do you feel the need to judge mine when it is posted in GD?
Yours faithfully
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I don't think there's any need to get too defensive about the comments. I agree that the blur in the pictures is overkill to my eyes. Maybe only professional photographers appreciate the effect. However I would just take it as constructive criticism rather than try to belittle people's opinion. Despite this though, the food does look great. 
I agree that it looks like more of a photography blur exercise rather than a cooking one, obviously I'm far from an expert so don't really understand the whole blurring thing.
The shallow depth of field is caused by a large aperture, i.e. a lens that allows a large amount of light into the camera. Without this you would either have to raise the ISO and get grainy/noisey images or use a flash.
Anyway, this is a thread about what he cooked not how he took the photos, if he wanted critique he would have posted it in the photography forum not GD.
Speaking of which, I just made something similar to Ray, used chicken breast instead though:
And, the most important part of any meal...
Soldato
Raymond Lin - the food looks great, the photos are great too. Keep up the posts, ignore those on here that feel it necessary to criticise you because you take good photographs. 
Perhaps it's because fewer people in GD have been exposed (hurr!) to photographs like the ones in the OP?
Yours look far more subtle and clearer IMO.
I don't see what's wrong with discussing the photographs personally.
Next we'll move on to your choice of beer!
