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Food foto friday – and Pinterest!

October 20, 2012 By Chicky 1 Comment

Welcome back to Food Foto Friday! (ack – I need to change that button!)

It’s been an interesting week – I got shingles of all things…who gets that???

I did get one thing done that I wanted to – I made a Food Photography board on pinterest to provide inspiration, ideas and even a recipe or two! I think I may create another one at some point where people can add their own photos.

This week I am using another older photo – I was doing some food styling/photography for a POTENTIAL job/project, and didn’t get to take any for fun. This is an apple pie my HUSBAND made last year while helping out a family friend at their restaurant. It was sitting in the garden window and the light was hitting it just right…I grabbed a favorite vintage apron (pics of those coming soon too!!) and crumpled it up a bit.

I used Pioneer Woman’s actions for editing – I want to say it was ”seventies” I used, but I’m not 100% sure. Then I rounded the edges (thinking back though, I maybe would have done something fun to make it look more vintage…those little coner things you use to put pictures in a photo album?).

Now it’s your turn! Add your link to the inlinkz doodad down there, and I would love to see you comment on how you processed your image, or if you have any questions about editing your photos…

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Loving Instagram…

April 19, 2012 By Chicky 5 Comments

It was with baited (bated? where on earth did that come from anyway?) breath that I was FINALLY able to use instagram on my android phone. I guess I’m not the only one with funky breath (it’s bated I just checked – as in A-bate…thanks Shakespeare!), since over 5 million people also downloaded Instagram in it’s first week of release, leading to it’s sale to Mark Zuckerberg for one BILLION dollars…meh, I keep that in spare change in my room.

It’s a lot of fun using it to participate in Photo a day challenges. Until I get my whole should-I-create-an-office-or-studio-space situation figured out, my camera’s card reader is never in the same place as my laptop, it seems like such a chore to hunt it down, upload and edit a photo every day, when all I have to do it take one with my phone, put a cool filter (effect) on it and call it a day.

This is from my a silly drive I took my boys on – they were on a “Cars” kick, and asking about the cozy cone, and I decided to show them the real thing…ON route 66!

This was for Day 8 - Cold – my favorite (barely) sweet tea in my favorite cup

This was from last Sunday at the Nuclear Cowboyz – super fun, super LOUD show!

If you’re on instagram, follow me at domesticchicky – I post almost every day, unlike here…. (I’m getting better!!!)

PS – I am working on a post about what to do now that Picnik is gone!

PPS – don’t forget about food foto Friday! Don’t feel like you have to take a picture JUST for this – you can add ANY post that has a food foto you’re proud of!

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Food Foto Friday

April 12, 2012 By Chicky 5 Comments

Welcome to Food Foto Friday! Food photography has become one of my passions, in addition to providing a great way to share recipes. As much as I love taking food pictures, I ALWAYS forget to take pictures as I cook so hopefully this will keep me accountable. I know since there are lots of FABULOUS food photographers, and blogs full of yummy images, this could be a great way to share blogs, recipes and amazing photos.

Feel free to share blog posts, instagram pictures, flickr links, whatever you like! Please try to visit a couple of the other participants so we all get some FPF love.

I’m going to share tips and tricks that I learn along the way too – and some of the books, posts and other resources I’ve come across.

For my first picture, I am going to share the one that is in the fff button (code is on the sidebar!) – I’m not sure how I decided to take this picture – they were the first strawberries of the year, and looked so yummy against the cheerios in that light that I’m not even sure I poured the milk before I got the shot.

strawberries, bananas and cheerios, oh my!