The great thing about being married to a chef and caterer is that I usually have food available to shoot. That is, if I make it to her kitchen. Unfortunately, Carla’s usually cooking when I’m at work, and the food is gone by the time I’m able to get to her kitchen. Tonight was different, though. She’s preparing for a big  job on Saturday in Charlottesville, and is working out of a different [much larger] kitchen that happens to be near my office. I stopped by after work this evening to take some “Carla in the kitchen” shots for her. Between snapping shots for her, I admittedly was scrounged around for food to capture. It just so happened that she had a nice amount of fresh peas and asparagus on hand.

One of the great things about visiting a new kitchen is all the different and/or new equipment. The double-basket deep fryer kept calling me.

My muse.

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Luddite Watch

For those keeping pace with my progress on the image editing front; I still haven’t made it over to Penn Camera to pick up my copy of Nikon Capture NX 2. I ran these photos through Picasa, and performed minimal sharpening and shadow/highlight adjustment. I have made a point to now shoot all my images in both RAW and JPG formats. I’ll be interested to see the difference between a processed JPG image versus a processed RAW image. You can be sure that I will post a comparison post with before-and-after shots once I get Capture.

food, macro, portraiture