Gandalf The White
Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:21 am
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Bergy wrote:
I really like seeing the ingredients. Love the finished product too. The green has a very true color
It is great seeing you post your photos here !
Derf wrote:
nice to see you here, love both photos
Bergy, this came out a bit "wetter" than I would have preferred, but the juice went into another recipe for ZWT5's Mexican visit and the sauce itself was used to great taste effect as well ... and that green is amazing -- fresh cilantro is a wonderful color as well as flavor enhancer!
Bergy, Derf:
The idea for an ingredients (or mise en place) photo came from a wonderful series of Chinese cookbooks, published by the Wei-Chuan cooking school, in Taipei ... no matter what language you knew (or didn't know
), you could just follow the photos and pretty much get the recipe perfectly.
A cyberfriend in California used the same trick on eGullet to create a Chinese cookbook of all his family recipes, as well as recipes he had learned from other chefs ... I think he has about 80 recipes posted that way. He would often stir or stir fry with one hand while photographing with the other!
If I can ever figure out what the best size is for uploading (right now I'm using photobucket's "large", which is ca. 1000x460 pixels), I can try to do the same, since many recipes require 7-15 photos to get the necessary level of detail ...
Anyway, it IS fun combining my two favorite hobbies!! Now, I have to start improving my photo technique ...
Thanks for your comments and encouragement!
Regards,
GTW
BTW, is there any way to "count" photos in this Forum so the "My Photos" part of our page indicates these images as well as those we post directly to a recipe?
Regards,
GTW
