Year In Pictures: 2010/03/12

[plonq]

I met pierrekrahn for lunch today. I had already eaten lunch, so I got to sit and watch him eat a sushi bento while we chatted. My lunch consisted of meatballs and rice. Mine was a perfectly good lunch but man... sushi bento!



I snapped a couple of pictures of his lunch because you never know when a random picture is going to turn out more interesting than you had hoped. After snapping 5 pictures, I ultimately found that I liked the mix of colours and textures in the first picture, so that's the one I went with.

I broke with my usual method of shooting in full manual, and switched to aperture priority. I cranked the aperture wide open to f/1.8 and the camera decided that 1/180th of a second was the way to go. In retrospect if I had noticed how fast it was shooting, I would have backed off to f/3.3 or even 4.0. Pierre was already being indulgent enough to let me take pictures of his lunch before he started eating, and I didn't want to make him wait while I played with settings.

Once I got the raw file on my computer I toyed with the exposure and shadows a bit, boosted the contrast a touch, sharpened it a bit and then aggressively cropped the picture.

Comments

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you told me about that Bento Box place months ago.
It's my favourite place to eat now in Portage Place and it's a welcome change from traditional fast food!

[warheart.livejournal.com]

Nice photo and tasty looking lunch :9

[plonq.livejournal.com]

These bento lunches are just the right size, and a pleasant break from the other greasy fare in the food court.

They moved into the space that was vacated by King Pies. I was both sad and relieved when the KP franchise closed. Their deep-fried food was as delicious as it was unhealthy; an evil temptation every time I walked past.