My Lovely Assistant, as it has well been noted on these pages, enjoys creating in the kitchen. She recently came home with a new cookbook full of cookie ideas. When My Lovely Assistant gets to work in the kitchen, it often inspires me to grab my gear and try to get a little creative as well. Food Photography has always been a subject that mystifies me, though I think that over the past few years I have gotten better at it. Thankfully, My Lovely Assistant is a whiz in the kitchen, which means that there is often a selection of tasty treats around that I can practice shooting. It also means lots of snacks as well. These cookies, called Énergie de fer, were a mix of peanut butter and molasses, with some apple sauce, date puree and some nuts and seeds tossed into the mix. To make the photograph, I piled a bunch of them together, got out my white background, put the cookies on a little pan holder which was made by my mother and shot everything using a new flash that was given to me by my brother. As you can see, I kept the whole production in the family. The photograph was shot at f/8, 1/160sec, ISO 100 at 30mm. There were a few more of these that were created, so expect to see them up here as well as I continue to collect photographs for her first cookbook.
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