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My HN Dinner Party #1

27 points by shalmanese 17y ago

Jun8 17y ago
Looking at pictures of the first two dishes made me realize how important lighting is for food photos to look appetizing.
- stingraycharles 17y ago
  Yep. I recently saw the lighting setup of one of my favorite cooking websites, FXcuisine.com: http://fxcuisine.com/zoom-image.asp?image=http://images.fxcuisine.com/blogimages/italian-cuisine/ragu-bolognese/ragu-bolognese-33-1000.jpg&t= http://fxcuisine.com/zoom-image.asp?image=http://images.fxcu... It's amazing how professional it looks, but then again, the pictures always look delicious.
  - weaksauce 17y ago
    White balance is super important as well as a shadows to give you good depth and texture to the dish. Leaving those out is like leaving the chicken out of chicken noodle soup.
jmathai 17y ago
Looks awesome. I'm anxious for the Sunnyvale edition! :)
davidw 17y ago
Huh. Anyone stops by the Venice/Padova area of Italy is welcome to a good dinner with plenty of meat: homemade ragu` (not that crappy brand of sickly tomato sauce sold in the US) with egg pasta, grilled meat, plenty of red wine. I guess I could come up with something vegetarian under extreme duress;-)
- bemmu 17y ago
  If on an impulse I would fly from Finland, you'll cook for me? Who else is coming! Or if anyone wants to come here, I can offer reindeer meat with lingonberries and mashed potatos, complete with Finnish vodka.
  - davidw 17y ago
    Sure. We don't get many visitors these days, what with having a baby and not as much social life as in the past. And my wife and I both enjoy meeting people from various places a great deal (indeed, this is something that I think we would sorely miss were we to move back to the west coast of the US).
  - mixmax 17y ago
    Or if anyone looks by Copenhagen I'll treat them to a homemade Smörgåsbord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord
dinner_party 17y ago
This is what I think about Dinner Parties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNON9uXLo4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNON9uXLo4 please don't down vote
follower 17y ago
I only just saw this via the link to Party #2, but actually found myself reading a cooking related post which is unusual. I enjoyed your writing style.

27 points by shalmanese 17y ago

Jun8 17y ago

Looking at pictures of the first two dishes made me realize how important lighting is for food photos to look appetizing.

stingraycharles 17y ago
Yep. I recently saw the lighting setup of one of my favorite cooking websites, FXcuisine.com: http://fxcuisine.com/zoom-image.asp?image=http://images.fxcuisine.com/blogimages/italian-cuisine/ragu-bolognese/ragu-bolognese-33-1000.jpg&t= http://fxcuisine.com/zoom-image.asp?image=http://images.fxcu... It's amazing how professional it looks, but then again, the pictures always look delicious.
- weaksauce 17y ago
  White balance is super important as well as a shadows to give you good depth and texture to the dish. Leaving those out is like leaving the chicken out of chicken noodle soup.

jmathai 17y ago

Looks awesome. I'm anxious for the Sunnyvale edition! :)

davidw 17y ago

Huh. Anyone stops by the Venice/Padova area of Italy is welcome to a good dinner with plenty of meat: homemade ragu` (not that crappy brand of sickly tomato sauce sold in the US) with egg pasta, grilled meat, plenty of red wine. I guess I could come up with something vegetarian under extreme duress;-)

bemmu 17y ago
If on an impulse I would fly from Finland, you'll cook for me? Who else is coming! Or if anyone wants to come here, I can offer reindeer meat with lingonberries and mashed potatos, complete with Finnish vodka.
- davidw 17y ago
  Sure. We don't get many visitors these days, what with having a baby and not as much social life as in the past. And my wife and I both enjoy meeting people from various places a great deal (indeed, this is something that I think we would sorely miss were we to move back to the west coast of the US).
- mixmax 17y ago
  Or if anyone looks by Copenhagen I'll treat them to a homemade Smörgåsbord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5sbord

dinner_party 17y ago

This is what I think about Dinner Parties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNON9uXLo4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNON9uXLo4 please don't down vote

follower 17y ago

I only just saw this via the link to Party #2, but actually found myself reading a cooking related post which is unusual. I enjoyed your writing style.