Friday Finds: Food

By
Lynda Giddens
– Fri August 20, 2010Posted in: Friday Finds

Happy Friday everyone! It’s that time of week again where I share my favorite photography and photo editing links found throughout the week! I have some really great links to share with you too, so please be sure to visit and comment on these articles!

This week’s photographic theme was Food and the Flickr group received more submissions than ever before with 76 photographs! I am so thankful for those of you who come back week after week with your submissions! It’s making my job of putting together an 18 photograph gallery especially difficult!

If you have any suggestions for a future theme, please add it to the Upcoming Themes Flickr discussion thread or just reply to this entry.

riyadh vegetable market

Photo Credit: zbig photography

bokeh-barack

Photo Credit: Rego

mjc-090224-3695

Photo Credit: wiccked

Clagett Farm Share Week 12

Photo Credit: krossbow

Tonight's Dinner

Photo Credit: …-Wink-…

Fresh

Photo Credit: OiD-W

Health food makes me sick

Photo Credit: * Polly *

Prosperity

Photo Credit: seeveeaar

Photography

  • Histograms: The Key to Better Exposure – There are a few things I constantly forget when I’m shooting and reading the histogram is one of them! I need to sit down and play with how different exposures look in the histogram so I can make use of this tool. If you’re not sure how to read the histogram from your digital camera, read the manual! (I’d suggest looking in the index in the back under “histogram”.)
  • When to Move to Manual – If you’re a photographer and a knitter, this is a must read article. Kristal blew me away with this analogy, gently explaining why one should feel no need to shoot everything in manual before learning other basic photographic techniques.
  • Exposure Triangle: Not Just About More/Less Light – There are possibly hundreds of articles in magazines or blogs and chapters in books on what Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO mean and most of them tell you what happens in terms of light only. This article goes deeper and shows what else is going on.
  • 13 Places to Practice Taking Beautiful Motion Blur Images – I’ve only taken one good halfway decent motion blur shot as a passenger in a car. That shot was taken before I knew a lick about photography and I’ve never been able to recreate it! This article makes me want to go hang out on escalators at night though; I have to try some of these shots soon!
  • The Arrow of Time – A family tradition for over 30 years, professional photographer Diego Goldberg requires a full face portrait of his immediate family regardless of what they’re doing every year on June 17. I absolutely LOVE this idea and think I might steal it. I only wish I’d started it before Mark and I had kids! What a precious gift Diego is passing along!
  • Tag My Images – Flickr Group – If you’re anything like me, you have a hard time tagging your photos on Flickr, however tags are an excellent way to let people find your work. (It’s how I find most of the submissions for Friday Finds!) You can add up to 50 images a month to this group and the only requirement is to go through the pool and add a few tags for each image you submit. There are many languages represented and your submitted images are sure to get a few tags added to boost its exposure.
  • 50 Stunning Examples of the Droste Effect – Everyone’s seen a picture or image with this effect, even if you’re not familiar with the term. “An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of the image within itself in a recursive manner.” These are some mind-blowing images. I doubt I’ll ever be able to create anything as cool.

Some Foodie Links

In honor of the theme!

  • Tastespotting – This site is a visual potluck. You’re presented with delicious looking images and can click through the links for the recipes and more information. Taste first with your eyes!
  • Cooking with My Kid is a really neat website with wonderful photographs and easy to follow recipes where the kids can take some control in the kitchen! Try out her Crustless Quiche in a Cup!
  • 8 No-Bake Summer Cakes – Who loves cake? Everyone! Who likes turning on the oven when it’s 105 degrees outside? Anyone? I didn’t think so. Have no fear, summer cakes are here!
  • Coraline Button Cookies – These are the cutest little cookies and look pretty easy to make!

Other Cool Stuff Around the Web

StumbleUpon is one of my new favorite web tools. Every article mentioned in Friday Finds is stumbled by me. This helps out the blog’s traffic and also allows me to bookmark the site for review each Friday.


Day 223 - Lunch

Photo Credit: MissTessmacher

Hungry Yet?

The photographs featured in this entry aren’t even the tip of the iceburg! Start with the Food Gallery on Flickr to see all the photos I selected to highlight. Below you’ll see all of this week’s submissions. Click on an image and you should be able to navigate through all 76 entries!

The Next Theme Is: Boats!

YABAS / Yet Another Boat at sunsetThanks so much to …-Wink-… on Flickr for this week’s theme suggestion!

Please enter your submissions to the Flickr pool by next Friday morning and tag the photograph with dwcff-boats if you’d like the thumbnail to display on this site. You can see current submissions and read through the qualification guidelines on the Friday Finds page

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