Wine & Stuffed Squid, Calamari

Fine dining restaurant, The Flute, in downtown Mumbai. Great food, great ambience.

Cheers and happy eating

Kirti - www.feastguru.com

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scratchandsniff says:

They look delicious!!!!
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scratchandsniff says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Moment of...cuiZEN! The Transcending Culinary Experience, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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skrockodile (www.cookbookcatchall.blogspot.com) says:

I've deleted one or two similar shots from the pool as they appear to be on-location snapshots, which are not permitted in the group pool - correct me if I'm wrong (they are not permitted because you cannot really affect the key aspects of a shot, namely lighting, composition (and styling) and these are all things the FPC aims to help photographers improve upon). These shots all have a similar yellow cast to them as a result of the poor lighting. They would benefit greatly from some post-shot white balance adjustment. From a compositional standpoint, additional attention to your the central focus point and theme of the shot would be helpful: most often, food shot on a plate, dead center in the frame, does not create the most interesting perspective. A reflector or bounce card on the right side would help fill in some light and remove harsh shadows. These are a few things to think about: I hope this is helpful.
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Thorsten (TK) says:

The food looks delicious. Lighting is the most important point in food photography. Especially when it is not meeting the viewer's expectations like here. There are two very leveled light sources, creating shadows on top of the squid and in upper right. Such leveled light source could mimic a sunset, but the it would come from one side only. In most cases we expect the light striking the food more or less on top, creating shadows "behind" the food.

Here you have also two main elements (dish and wine) I would have preferred to have the wine glass more out of focus, so that the squids would be in center of interest.

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kspoddar says:

Thorsten - thanks for the comments. I have a couple of doubts which you can help clarify. I rather liked the yellowish light though a lot of people have said that I should have run a white balance. What do you think?

Second, I found it difficult to position the glass of wine. If you take a top shot then the impact of the glass of wine is lost. If you take a flatter shot, it is difficult to fill in the picture with both the wine glass and the plate. What do you think?
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Thorsten (TK) says:

Kirti, a yellow cast is always tricky. A tiny bit too much and a fantastic warm color mood can turn into a yellow cast dulling down all the other colors. Especially blue and green colors in the photo can get a distracting cast. And also red can lack a bit of brigthness.

Often a more neutral color setting is preferred though. But it also depends on personal style and prefernces.

I would suggest to play around with color setting / mood and white balance. If you have something white i9n your phot like a plate, you can also edit the color cast in a pots processing step.

In the beginning I didn't take too much care about color casts in my or other photos. But with time and experience I became more aware of it. Now it seems that I sometimes don't even like slight hues (maybe a kind of over reacting). It is a kind of process. A good exercise to get a feeling for it is to play around with your photos. Edit them and change the color balance and white balance.

On you 2nd point. That is difficult sometimes. Here are two examples from my own photos.

In this one I have from top angle. To break the dominance I have cropped the glass(es) hard. They still have a meaning for the phot though, because the viewer's imagination is completing the glasses. You can use this effect. Try to crop the glass to that point that it is still recognized as it is, but with less attention.

In this one I have blurred the glass. The focus on the dish breaks the dominant effect here.

In both photos I have used a 2nd glass to get a different aspect of the glass and to repeat it. If you repeat an element you emphasize its meaning in your photo. And a 2nd glass can show something different to help the viewer to get a "complete" idea of it.
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