Dessert Is Served

We take a little break from cookies for this update, to take a look at another of My Lovely Assistant's creations.  When I asked her how to describe this dessert, she said that it was a kind of yogurt/pudding treat.  It's made with almond milk and a selection of fruits and nuts.  In this case, My Lovely Assistant used a diced pear, flaked almonds, chia seeds and some honey.  It then passes the night in the fridge and is ready to be eaten, or in this case photographed, the next day.  For this series, I had initially wanted to photograph the dessert on a shiny platter to get a reflection of the service dishes.  I couldn't find anything shiny enough in the house so I improvised and went in the other direction of finding a colourful patterned dish towel on the table while putting the desserts on a fancy plate and adding some spoons to complete the image.  I also shot the dessert from different angles as the straight-on shot failed to properly show the texture of the dessert toppings in the first photograph.  Everybody likes a good two-for-one deal, so you get two photographs for the price of one with this update.  Both photographs were taken at f/3.5, 1/250sec, ISO 100 at 24mm.  The dessert dishes were actually quite small, so a Macro lens helped make everything look a little larger and a little bit of bounced flash brought out some added colour and texture in the finished product.  As an alternative, the almond milk could be replaced with chocolate milk.  A nice, cool little light dessert.