Food Photography With Polaroid: The Analog Experience

We're doing it not for good result. But merely for an experience.
The experience when we're unplugged from digital mega pixels, digital filters - that mimics vintage look - and digital instant result.

 
Left: analog. Right: digital.

The experience of capturing the other reality, not 'real' reality or what-you-see-is-what-you-get reality.
The experience of process.
The experience of failure.

 
Left: analog. Right: digital.

The experience when we watch the light & chemical developed before our eyes.
And the experience of the little celebration when we see the unique interesting result.

Photo by: Dita Wistarini.
Camera: Polaroid SX-70 (and iPhone 4).
Film: PX 680.

Motion Graphic with Watercolor Mood

Remember when I posted about Photo-Watercolorizing project a month ago? So here it is. All of the elements were done with manual traditional & digital painting (with Wacom). Thanks to my wife, Dita, for her amazing food-photography :D

Photo-Watercolorizing

I'm doing an intro for cooking TV program. The idea is a restaurant menu with watercolor-style food pictures - by using Dita's food photography. Click for some details.

Currently, I'm still watercolorizing (is it a right term?) the photos in Photoshop. Haven't reach the motion composition step yet.
(updating... )

Food Photography Contest Winners

I was on vacation when David Leite from Leite's Culinaria e-mailed me. I'm so surprised that he told me about my Chocolate-Ginger Crinkle Cookies photo goes to final.

It was the only photo I sent for this contest. I didn't have much time to try another recipes and to make so many photos because I was preparing my vacation to Indonesia.

Then at the beginning of the September month, Allison from Leite's Culinaria e-mailed me. Yayyyyyy!!! I'm so thrilled that I made it as a second place winner.



Now, I can't wait for my $200 gift certificate from B&H Photo *dora dancing*

Food Photography Collages

Some of my food photography works since 2007.









More food photos, here.

Artist : Dita
Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.8, 28-135mm f/3.5, 17-40mm f/4L
All photos used natural light

Food Photography : Cookies

It's been a long time since I submitted my last entry to CLICK competition.

And here's my entry for CLICK May 2009 - Cookies, hosted by Bee and Jai.




Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.8 mm
Artist : Dita
Lighting : natural light

Food Photography : Red Chili Sauce

Many Indonesian can't live without sambal or chili sauce :D. We usually make our own fresh sambal not the kind packed in a bottle. There are countless recipes for chili sauces in Indonesia (sambal kacang or nut chili sauce, sambal kemiri or candlenut chili sauce, sambal bawang or onion chili sauce, etc). Indonesian sambal usually come as a thick paste, and are used either as a dipping sauce or in stirfrying.

One of the most common sambal recipe use these ingredients : bird eye chili, sometimes cayenne, dried shrimp paste (terasi), coconut sugar, tomato and salt.

And here's my entry for CLICK : January 2009 - RED



Artist : Dita
Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.8

Food Photography : Crispy and Spicy Potato

Here's my entry for CLICK June 2008 : Yellow for Bri. This month's CLICK is in honour of Briana Brownlow whose struggling to fight against breast cancer.





Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.8
Lighting : natural daylight
Artist : Dita

Please do visit My Culina Sanctuarium for the recipe.

Food Photography : Rice and Spice

Another shots



Artist : Dita
Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : kit lens 18-55 mm

Food Photography : Pomegranate

Here's my entry for CLICK April 2008 Edition : Au Naturel.






Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.8
Lighting : natural daylight
Artist : Dita

The pomegranate is a popular exotic fruit whose origins are from the Middle East and Asia. Also known as the granada, grenade, and the Chinese apple, pomegranates are now commonly grown in Africa, India, Malaysia, southern Europe, and in the United States, in Arizona and California. Pomegranates typically thrive well when grown in regions where the temperature is mild and where there is little humidity.

Please do visit My Culina Sanctuarium for more story about Pomegranate.

Food Photography : LOOMI

Camera : Canon EOS 350 D
Lens : 50 mm f/1.4
Lighting : daylight
Artist : Dita

More about LOOMI in My Culina Sanctuarium.