Cooking with Raymond (Italian) - Flamed Pepper/Mozzarella/tomato salad + Pancetta/Liver/Mushroom Tag

Jesus Raymond, I genuinely didn't mean to upset you, I'm really sorry about that. It seems my initial comment turned into a full blown debate which wasn't my intention at all.
I'm a little bit annoyed at being called ungrateful though.

Anyway, I hope your not too upset, we're just a bunch of strangers anyway, who cares.
 
Here's what I'm cooking tonight:

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P.S Pictures looks great Raymond.
 
FAO all the 'you know nothing about photography' people: you don't have to be a professional photographer to see when someone gets a bit over-excited with certain techniques. It's the same with excessive tilt-shift or HDR usage...fine in moderation...

Raikiri, it's not simply a case of 'you must use a large aperture lens otherwise you need to use nasty grainy ISO'. A camera of that quality allows sufficient exposure via ISO levels, such that more than 1/10th of the image can be in focus at any one time.

Second point to the butthurt amongst you: this is a forum and people should not get all sniffly when people critique their submissions.

Finally, just LOL at the people saying 'this isn't the photo forum therefore he didn't intend you to comment on the quality of his photos'.

He very clearly made an attempt at professional quality photos, with the anticipation that people would comment on the quality of his photos. It's perfectly obvious that he would hope for positive comments on his photography, hence his excessively emotional response above. However he can't have it both ways...either he posts and hopes for accolade but accepts that he may receive negative comments also, or he doesn't post at all.

Trying to circumvent the forum rules on small business advertising with a thinly veiled cooking thread, was just the last straw for any sympathy I may have had.

I look forward to your rebuttal :D.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I want to talk about food.

You want to talk about pictures.

WHY?
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It's just an interesting discussion from my point of view, in terms of why pro photographers occasionally feel the need to blur the crap out of their photos. I think it's relevant given your blatant attempts to advertise your business.

I've already commented on the fact that your food looks very good and you seem like a cook that knows what he's doing.
 
Robbie G said:
It's just an interesting discussion from my point of view, in terms of why pro photographers occasionally feel the need to blur the crap out of their photos. I think it's relevant given your blatant attempts to advertise your business.

I've already commented on the fact that your food looks very good and you seem like a cook that knows what he's doing.
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My "business" is taking pictures of women getting married, NOT cooking.

ANOTHER person brings up the subject of MY pictures, not me.

So are you saying I have to take crappy pictures now? Is that the rule?

What if I can CRAP out pictures like this in my sleep? How would that be advertising? Do I have to lower my standard because you say so? If another poster post better photos than me but he does not make photos from it, would that be advertising? Would removing the watermark make you happy? But what about my username? Should I change my username too so that it doesn't link back to me directly make you happy?

I want to talk about food, please stop bring the subject of photography up.

You know what, I am going to keep doing it, until the mods makes it an offence to post good photographs, I am going to keep doing it.

You can keep on moaning, I have better things to do than justify myself to you.

Good day.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The discussion is about food, the cooking.

Not "ooh, I can't see every tomato on the chopping board".
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Sure, sure. Except it's not for you to decide what course the discussion takes, unfortunately.

I can understand that you 'just took the photos' on whatever settings your camera was on, and nobody is asking you to take terrible photos. I just find it interesting that overly blurry photos are considered 'good'.

Raymond Lin said:
You know what, I am going to keep doing it, until the mods makes it an offence to post good photographs
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I don't think your photos are that good tbh.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
You can keep on moaning
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Except he's not really moaning, he's making some pretty good points. Although I apologised earlier your handling of this and the tone of your posts almost makes me wish I hadn't bothered.
There's no reason why we can't discuss your pictures instead of the food, this isn't a cooking forum, any topic is open for discussion as long as there are no personal insults.
Also, if you hadn't of phrased your responses the way you did then we probably would not still be talking about it.
Having not clicked any of the links in your sig before I have to say that I am actually pretty surprised you get away with it, although there's no direct 'business' link, there is a link to what you do as your job, and then several ways to contact you.
Like I said, if you had just gone "lol never mind" to the initial comments I probably wouldn't be posting this now, grow a thicker skin and learn to accept that not everyone is going to like your stylistic choices.
 
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