Taken at the Seattle Food Photography Workshop with Penny De Los Santos. I was back on my older 5D body for this (5DMII died this week), and using my 24-105L which I rarely use for food... but really like. Definitely a different quality to these shots than my usual work. High noise/grain due to low light and hand-holding... but I like the soft quality it brought to these images.
This assignment was about thinking about what angle you shoot your subject. I rarely shoot top down, but decided to for this shot. This salad had quite a bit of height which gets lost a bit in the angle... but I was shooting it last and it had started to die, so the top down shot was a better choice.
Also, I shot this on one of the chairs for a more dramatic background than the light tables. The napkin provided a nice transition.