Saturday Snapshots Series #9 Drinks

Ladies, bring it on drinks this time for Saturday Snapshots. Summers is here and let’s click drinks.

• Shoot drinks, it can be action shots like pouring or have human element like holding a glass. Or plain simple drink. Be creative.
• The post has to be once a week for 4 weeks that is the whole month starting from 20^th April to 20^th May.
• The post can be with or without recipe-choice is yours.
• If you don’t have time think of simple everyday drinks like water, juice or tea. If you want you can edit the previous post by simply modifying it with the new picture.
• To click a good picture make sure that the glass you are using is clean-the water marks or finger prints will make your picture look sad.
• Light is very important. Take the picture in good sunlight. For tutorial see this-how to understand and play with light by Playful Cooking.
• Props: Beginners try to keep it simple white. Else be bold and use bright colours -the best is to co-ordinate and use contrasting colours. 
• This is the time to use all flowery and colorful fabrics you have. The boost of colours will give summer feel to the pictures.
• Simple garnish such as mint leaves, lemon or orange slices will bring out the life in your pictures-do try that. 
• Pinterest borad is here for ideas and inspirations.

Some of you asked for basic tutorials,so here are some links.

UnderstandingISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed by Playful Cooking

10Tips to Improve Your Food Photography Styling by Digital Photography School

FoodPhotography Basics - Aperture, F-Stops & DO by Cookingandme

• Please link back to the hosts (we want more people to join in). Simply copy and paste- Saturday Snapshots-food photography series hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.
• Once your post is ready, use the below linky tool at the host’s page and link.
•  It is important to watermark (write your name/blog name/blog logo) on your pictures. 
• Use the logo, it helps to spread the word.



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Saturday Snapshots Series #8 Holding The Food: Kotimbir Vadi

Saturday Snapshots week #8, theme was  ‘Holding The Food’. Holding food also known as ‘the human touch’ is trending and is my personal favorite. For more details click here.

Holding the food is a great way to bring food alive and breathing. It also gives your blog's readers a chance to peep into your lives- be it your kitchen, your family or actions. You can find some of my (not the best) pictures on this theme here, here and here.

I shot Khotimbir Vadi (coriander steamed dumplings) for this task.

Saturday Snapshots Series #8 - Holding The Food

This is our Week 8 at Saturday Snapshots, a food photography series. We began clicking simple things like tomatoes, lentils, chillies etc; now time to get serious. When I say serious, I mean you must click with passion, follow the instructions, mention your camera settings in your pictures and most importantly try harder. Click with complete dedication and try to figure out what’s wrong and how can you get better.

This week’s theme is ‘Holding The Food’. Holding food also known as ‘the human touch’ is trending and is my personal favorite. All you need to do is Hold The Food- be it a cupcake, a picnic basket, a cup of coffee or just fresh vegetables.

What to do:

• Click food that are tiny in size like ice creams, cupcakes, fruits, a bowl of candies etc. These food are great to shoot when held my kids. So all you lovely mothers dress up your kids and shoot. Some great examples are here, here and here.

• Background must be perfect- For dark food like chocolate cake, coffee, pies etc look for darker or rustic background; wear something black or brown or grey like here, here, or here. Same goes with lighter coloured food, white on white;  Black and white or yellow on yellow.

• Set up the mood- Yes your image must show a mood. Shoot a glass of fresh drink in the park to depict a sunny day or click a pie  your gloves and apron on -like here or here. Wear your jackets and jumpers for a wintry/warm feel like here or here. Having a party? Click and show the mood of celebration- like here.

• Think beyond plain whites and blacks. How about wrapping food in paper like here, here and here?? Or use vintage plates and bowls like here and here.  

• Aperture is your best friend- Shoot within the range of larger aperture between f 1.4 to f 2.0. Larger aperture will only let food be in the focus and the background will be blurred-this gives a nice dramatic touch.

• Don’t go overboard- Play it simple, nice and clean. Don’t include too many colours, props or texture. Or use no props at all- just your hands like here, here and here. Keep it simple and elegant. 

• No action shots- Just hold the food; don’t move things- no action shots like pouring, spreading the frosting, kneading the dough etc are needed. (we will get to this later ;)

Holding the food is a great way to bring food alive and breathing. It also gives your blog's readers a chance to peep into your lives- be it your kitchen, your family or actions. You can find some of my (not the best) pictures on this theme here, here and here. Need more ideas and inspiration, just see this Pinterest Board.

• Please link back to the hosts (we want more people to join in). Simply copy and paste- Saturday Snapshots-food photography series hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.
• Once your post is ready, use the below linky tool at the host’s page and link.
•  It is important to watermark (write your name/blog name/blog logo) on your pictures. 
• Use the logo, it helps to spread the word.
• We are active on twitter and Facebook. You can share your pictures and post link at our Facebook group. For twitter use #ss (hash tag ss)
• You don't have to do a separate blogpost for SS, just include the picture in any of your post.
• Submit your entries till 16th Feb 2015.

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Thats all folks! I hope you have fun and also learn something new.

Saturday Snapshots Series #7 - Whole Tomatoes On Dark Background

For Week #7 let at Saturday Snapshots we had to click Tomatoes. Oh! Yeah, good old red tomatoes. Curries, chutneys, sandwiches, sauces, pizza or in salads- undoubtedly tomatoes is very important ingredient in our kitchen.

The task demanded to click whole tomatoes on dark background, below is what I shot.

See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable

Week 2- Chillies

Week 3-Cut Vegetables

Week 4-Whole Spices

Week 5-Lentils or Legumes

Week 6-Diwali 

Sending this at Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

Saturday Snapshots Series #6- Diwali Festival

And its week 6 for our Saturday Snapshots. Keeping Diwali and festive spirit in mind this week task was to shoot anything realted to Diwali- be it rangoli, decorations, candles, diyas, food or family. This pinterest board was shared for inspiration and ideas:)

Here are my pictures:)

Sending this at Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable

Week 2- Chillies

Week 3-Cut Vegetables

Week 4-Whole Spices

Week 5-Lentils or Legumes

Saturday Snapshots Series #5- Lentils/Legumes

Saturday Snapshots week 5 task was to shoot lentils or legumes. I clicked these chickpeas for my Aloo Chole post.

Sending this at Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable

Week 2- Chillies

Week 3-Cut Vegetables

Week 4-Whole Spices

Saturday Snapshots Series #4- Whole Spices

Week 4 at Saturday Snapshots was to shoot Whole Spices and this is what I clicked:)

Live life with a little spice

Sending this at Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable

Week 2- Chillies

Week 3-Cut Vegetables

If you are interested please see the announcement page HERE.

Saturday Snapshots Series #3 -Cut Vegetable/s

Just can not believe that it is third week already. Oh yes I am talking about our food photography series ''Saturday Snapshots'' hosted at Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

This week's task was to shoot 'cut vegetables' -the theme depicts the colorfulness and joy of preparing food.

I was preparing Garlic Chilli Tomato Chutney and this was I clicked.

See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable
Week 2- Chillies

Saturday Snapshots Series #2 -Chillies

Burnt and smoked green chilli shoot for Saturday Snapshots Series #2 hosted by me that is Merry Tummy and Siris Food.

Because, I love the smokey hint

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Saturday Snapshots Series 1

Thank you all for joining in us at Saturday Snapshots. We appreciate that you want to learn and have some fun clicking food.

The first theme of our event was Yellow Fruit/Vegetable. Summers, sunshine depicts the colour yellow very well, so we chose it as the theme. Hope you all liked and enjoyed with playing with the colour :)

Here is my picture.

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. - Piet Hein

I am very excited to see your work. Please link below, the linky tool will be open till Tuesday.

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Saturday Snapshots, Join Us In Food Photography Series

Click, share and learn-The fun way!

We love anything food!!
...we love cooking
...we love clicking 
...we love writing
........oh yeah blogging! 

The journey of food blogging hooked Me at Merry Tummy and Sireesha Puppala at Siris Food to the beautiful journey of photography. We see an apple and a dream visualise in a million ways as how it could be presented in our blogs. Sometimes the apple come out damn sexy and sometimes it could almost look like a ripen guava. Early mornings, late afternoons, clicking clicking and clicking...exhausted- we finally give in and give up, But we learn, gain experience and get to know the mistakes.

I reached a point from here to here and I am still learning.

Before and after shots of same mango drink! 

Siri came from Here to Here. 

Before and after shots of drinks- You can see the differences! Awesome-isn't it?

....And both of us could go back to where we started anytime , So we PRACTICE.. Yes we are bad photographers, But want to be good photographers, So we learn, we give up, we restart, we experiment, we click, we share. Yes WE SHARE.

Is it for you??

Do you love clicking photos?
Do you enjoy sharing your clicks? 
Do you want to experiment and try new techniques? 
Do you need a platform to showcase the pictures? 
..........If the answers to all these questions are YES then our new series SATURDAY SNAPSHOTS is for you.

What is it? 
SATURDAY SNAPSHOTS is a gateway to practice and learn photography through sharing our clicks. 

How we learn? 
A theme will be given during the start of the week for a photograph-Like click any fruit, empty glass, or a dessert- anything connected to the food. Each of us will click in our own style and post the pic on our blog on every Saturday .Yes JUST the picture, no write ups, content-you heard it- no lengthy post-wow, isn't it??

Why join us?

We are no professional photographers and we are not here to judge your snaps. 
We have no strict rules, we don’t want you to cook anything special to click-we just want to have fun together.  
We just want to motivate each other and make our food photography journey more interesting. 
We will encourage each other with supportive comments, new ideas and suggestions.

How can you join?

Leave your email address in the comments and we will get back to you with the next steps! Join us at our Facebook Group. Lets be curious, lets be enthusiastic, lets be upbeat and lets be creative...and lets be mad!! But let continue to learn.

Passion is all what we need!! That’s all. Ready???
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See-Week 1- yellow fruit or vegetable

Week 2- Chillies

Week 3-Cut Vegetables

Week 4-Whole Spices

Week 5-Lentils or Legumes

Week 6-Diwali 

Week 7 Whole Tomatoes On Dark Background
Week 8 Holding The Food