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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822505" data-attributes="member: 53455">It was not long until my interest for tabletop photography branched off into food photography. I suppose it is built into every Frenchman’s gene pool to “be into food” —although being half-Scot and half-Breton, I’m not exactly sure just how “French” that makes me... Anyway, I like to cook, although I have never ventured beyond the basics, but my problem with pro-looking food photography is that I can never wait long enough to shoot the food before I want to eat it...! Genuine food photographers (eat first, although few will ever admit it, then) spend hours “dressing up” the food, using a myriad of tricks you don’t want to know about, and by the time they finally take the hero shot, the food is utterly inedible —not to mention often unsafe to eat because of all the chemicals they... but here we come again to what it is that you don’t want to know.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> So, given all of the above, I figured the safest foods for me to practice on were cold ones, and I learned to work fast, or use “stand-ins” for the hero food, just like they do in the movies. This slice of pâté en croûte from the Mère Brazier catering shop in Lyon was one of my first tries, and I had to eat one before I started working on the other... Oh, and the baby pickles were crunchy and delicious, too! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />Strangely enough, I have no usable EXIF information about lens, but it must have been an autofocus Z-mount one, because I see from the original caption that this was a 14-exposure composite shot using the built-in focus stacking function on the Z7. The photos were stacked with Helicon Focus.Bon appétit ![ATTACH=full]408496[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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