Patisserie David står för längerheten!

Förvånansvärt att något så läckert med så fin färg kan komma ur en sån liten rotklump!

Detta var en av flera matsessioner. Snålvattnet rinner.

Och sist men inte minst en vit ricotta på en vit tallrik mot vit bakgrund.

Man ska inte äta tjocka lager med smör på mackan! Punkt!
Kolesterol, fett, kolhydrater och uteblivna situps blir en dålig blandning. Inget nytt. Men på ett helt nybakat surdegsbröd av denna kalibern vore det en riktig miss att inte göra så. Lika stor miss vore det att lägga på en skiva salami eller ädelost som stör smakupplevelsen. Smör ska det vara. Det kompletterar fint. Ett rejält lager.
Tillsammans med Veckansmiddag fotograferades förvandlingen av en ilsket morrande surdeg i burk till ett fantastiskt välformat, välfärgat och välsmakande bröd. Från puppa till fjäril. Sann metamorfos!

Foton till utmärkta matbloggen Veckansmiddag. Spenatpaj med fetaost och grönkålspaj med chevre… eller var det tvärtom grönkål och fetaost och spenat och chevre? Det har jag just glömt. Goda var dom! Fantastiskt goda! Jag slök dom efter fotograferingen. Dom var fortfarande ljumma.

Spenatpajen är fotad med vanligt fast ljus men grönkålspajen skulle ha en liten julstämning så där fick vi trixa lite med både ljus och rekvisita. Lite julstämning i höstsommarvärmen gick att få trots allt.

spenatpaj

Once a week Sanna (from Veckans Middag.com) is providing a nice recipe and a cooking tutorial for the online grossery store Hemmalivs. My pleasant task is to shoot it and to taste it now and then.

This time we decided to shoot outdoors since the light seemed to be nice. A small Speedlight as fill, and a silver reflector whas all it took to even out  the soft evening light.

The peppers were among other delicious things stuffed with cottage cheese, bacon, Feta cheese, fresh cheese and garlic!

Every now and then I have the delicious assignment to shot food and products for the food blog “Veckans Middag“. Most often this emanates in a tremendous hunger and a lively salivation. (Wich is good for the teeth my denstist tells me). Here are some pictures newly shot.

Playing with available light only (and some reflectors), outdoors and indoors.

Here Cloetta´s Royal wedding edition chocolate. (The Wedding Chocolate) With blueberries and lingonberries! Among other delicious ingredients! If you happen to see some pieces of chocolate missing in the product shot I know nothing about it!

Product shot

The fine italian ecological wine Dolce Vita Monica no 3745

Zeta, the fine brand of olives, oil and vinegar.

The studio is located in a very old building, the kind of building that has very deep windowsills. The window in the kitchen is right towards north. In a special time of the day, in a special time of the year, when the sun comes through a thin layer of clouds, it shines on the wall of a fairly high building to the opposite our kitchen window. The building has a warm, almost pink surface which is reflecting the light through the fairly dirty window which delivers a very rich, soft light.

That kind of  light occured yesterday and luckily we happened to have some products perfect to be shot in this kind of light:  A friend of my wifes has a nice business on Sicily, Citronodlingen, (The Lemon Orchard), at the foot of Etna. My wife had recently got some products sent to her from Citronodlingen  for testing out and  to tell about on her food blog.

This time it was chocolate, lemon cream, artichoke paste, and fantastic dried chili seeds.

The wall in the windowsill made a perfect backdrop and the light falling in through the window gave these jars with their delicious content a nice soft shine.

The Crema di Limoni is  a complete success! And so is the Paté di Carciofi & Mandorle.

A tiny silver reflector to lighten up shadows a bit was all that was needed to get a good exposure here. I really like this light and I wish the window was four times bigger …

The idea is to produce pictures with strong, saturated colors , in contrast to  traditional scandinavian food photography. Lets see if it is possible. We´re not really used to that…

More pictures to come after postprocessing. Here is one I couldn´t resist to upload.

Food styling: Maria Dahlquist, The Food Company