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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech Daily. All right, So how
Speaker 1: many times has this happened to you? You get an
Speaker 1: amazing dish put in front of your face, it looks
Speaker 1: like some delicious food. You want to take a picture
Speaker 1: of it to share it with your friends on Instagram.
Speaker 1: You snap that photo, You look at it and ugh,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to eat that. It doesn't look very appealing. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's happened to me a bunch of times. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's happened to you. If you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: doing when it comes to taking these food pictures, they
Speaker 1: can look pretty bad. So recently I attended a culinary
Speaker 1: storytelling workshop to try to fix this. We were on
Speaker 1: board the Ruby Princess. We went down to San Pedro
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. This was an event hosted by
Speaker 1: tech Munch. They host a bunch of traveling food events,
Speaker 1: influencer events, all kinds of stuff when it comes to food.
Speaker 1: Very cool company. We were on board the Ruby Princess.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Curtis Stone, the celebrity chef, has a
Speaker 1: restaurant there called Share. He also has that same restaurant
Speaker 1: in two other ships. It was really cool because I've
Speaker 1: never been on a cruise, so it was fun to
Speaker 1: just kind of be on the ship, but we didn't
Speaker 1: actually leave the harbor or the port, whatever you call it.
Speaker 1: There were lots of food bloggers in attendance. I was
Speaker 1: definitely out of my league. I just brought a cell
Speaker 1: phone camera and a GoPro, but I did learn some stuff,
Speaker 1: so it was really fun. We had a six course meal,
Speaker 1: started with charcuterie, continued with some lemon poached prawns cavatelli,
Speaker 1: with some amazing like foamy sauce that was really good
Speaker 1: trout that everyone thought was salmon, and then some lamb,
Speaker 1: which I did not really partake in because I've never
Speaker 1: really tried it, so I was kind of like, ash
Speaker 1: I try it, I didn't maybe a bite, and then
Speaker 1: finally a citron tart which was really good as well.
Speaker 1: We took pictures of everything. I mean, I've been in
Speaker 1: restaurants where you see people taking pictures of their food.
Speaker 1: This is like next level stuff because everyone in there
Speaker 1: was a food blogger. They are taking crazy amounts of
Speaker 1: pictures in all kinds of weird ways. Leading the event
Speaker 1: was a food photographer and blogger named Ashley Rodriguez. She
Speaker 1: blogs on the website Not Without Salt, and she was
Speaker 1: leading the way giving us real tips and kind of
Speaker 1: demos as we ate our food. So her first tip,
Speaker 1: you can hear it from herself, use a menu to
Speaker 1: light things up.
Speaker 2: If I happen to see that this beautiful menu is
Speaker 2: this perfect, pure white that it's a good way of
Speaker 2: bouncing the light back into the plate, so you're softening
Speaker 2: those shadows.
Speaker 1: Her next tip, if you want to take the absolute
Speaker 1: best food pictures, and that's sort of your primary reason
Speaker 1: for visiting a restaurant, try eating lunch there instead of dinner.
Speaker 2: Here's why, when I go out to eat for lunch,
Speaker 2: the lightning is going to be so much better. If
Speaker 2: I go out to dinner. Sometimes I will just simply
Speaker 2: not even try and put away the camera my phone
Speaker 2: and just simply enjoy the meal.
Speaker 1: This is a good one, and it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: People love stories, so tell a story with your photos.
Speaker 2: Take a picture of the beautiful plate as it hits
Speaker 2: the table, but also don't turn off that part of
Speaker 2: your brain that's thinging ooh, this would make a good
Speaker 2: photo because it is often those images that you know,
Speaker 2: the napkin is a little tussled, the plate is a
Speaker 2: little skewed. To me, photography is all about storytelling. That's
Speaker 2: what's interesting.
Speaker 1: And finally, Ashley's last tip, don't forget to include yourself
Speaker 1: in the pictures you scroll through an Instagram feed, it
Speaker 1: might as well be anonymous because you don't see who
Speaker 1: the person is behind the lens.
Speaker 2: If you're dining with a friend, you can ask them
Speaker 2: to take a picture for you. I think any sense
Speaker 2: of life in the photo, So if you know, even
Speaker 2: if you have your hand kind of reaching in, or
Speaker 2: have your friend's hands reaching in to grab the plate,
Speaker 2: that adds that much more interest as well.
Speaker 1: Now, in case you're wondering what chefs like Curtis Stone
Speaker 1: think of the trend of everyone taking pictures of their food, well,
Speaker 1: he can't speak for all chefs, but I think they
Speaker 1: kind of like it.
Speaker 3: So the truth behind Instagram and all of the different
Speaker 3: social media outlets. If your food looks good and it
Speaker 3: tastes good, people talk positively about it, and it just
Speaker 3: amplifies that good old fashioned wood of mouth, so we
Speaker 3: actually love it.
Speaker 1: There you have, it had to take better pictures of
Speaker 1: your food for Instagram. I had a blast at the event.
Speaker 1: I am not a food photographer by any means, but
Speaker 1: it is kind of fun to take pictures of your food. Personally,
Speaker 1: I do it a lot just to kind of remember
Speaker 1: what I ate. I will share it on Instagram. I
Speaker 1: don't expect a lot of people to really care, but
Speaker 1: if there's a cool meal somewhere you went and someone
Speaker 1: wants to either make that meal, or if it's a recipe,
Speaker 1: or go to that place and eat the same thing,
Speaker 1: it's a great way of sharing. If you want to
Speaker 1: see the pictures that I took, you can go to
Speaker 1: my Instagram. It is rich on Tech. That's my profile.
Speaker 1: You can find a link to it at richontech dot tv.
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