SLW Photo Remake: Green Salad

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Well, I’m quite overdue for our monthly remake… but better late than never.

The cookie shot seemed to be a bit intimidating (or perhaps uninteresting) to most of you, so let’s go a different route this month, with a simple green salad.


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This is a shot that I took at the workshop we had with Penny De Los Santos back in December. In that class, we each had 3 assignments to shoot food that was prepared by the fantastic Springhill Restaurant in West Seattle. I haven’t talked much about that class, but that’s mostly because others have said it already. Penny is wonderful, and I simply loved hearing the stories from her travels.

The thing that Penny asked us to focus the most on was on pushing our own limits and viewing things a little differently. Shoot from a different angle, try a different lighting style, or maybe simply change your lens. I almost always shoot with either my 100mm 2.8 or 90mm tilt-shift, so for this particular assignment, I threw on the 24 to 105, a lens that Penny said she shoots with almost exclusively. Immediately, looking at the photos, I knew this was a good thing for me to do. The images looked fresh to me… a nice break from shots that sometimes I feel that I have shot a hundred times.

Anyway… enough of the back-story. The assignment is quite simple. It’s a lightly dressed, green salad, in a white bowl on a white napkin on a dark surface. To give you a one more additional hint… I was shooting on a very high ISO for this because I was hand-holding and the light was not particularly abundant.

Do go ahead and make your photos diptychs that show this original photo along with your version of it on the right.

If you are new to the monthly photo challenges, head over to the Flickr group for the rules and to introduce yourself.

This challenge will run through the end of March.

6 thoughts on “SLW Photo Remake: Green Salad

  1. Thank you for this blog Lara. Your blog has been very helpful and useful to me as I am experimenting with new ideas.

    I love the photograph too. Love the top down angle on this and the simple composition.

    Lighting– It seems like the light is coming from the right (may be bottom right or so). What was the light source? Natural light?

    Thank you for putting this wonderful challenge. This is very helpful.

    Thanks.
    Neel

  2. Silly question, apologies upfront…..How do I subscribe to your blog (not just this post)?

    Humbly yours

    J

  3. Thank you for this blog Lara. Your blog has been very helpful and useful to me as I am experimenting with new ideas.

    I love the photograph too. Love the top down angle on this and the simple composition.

    Lighting– It seems like the light is coming from the right (may be bottom right or so). What was the light source? Natural light?

    Thank you for putting this wonderful challenge. This is very helpful.

    Thanks.
    Neel

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