my-halflife: a food photo blog: On the table

Saturday, May 06, 2006

On the table

On the table
Originally uploaded by pradeep jeganathan.

Gallery Cafe, Colombo, waiting for lunch.

I took this photograph, on an assignment for a magazine. I thought this was the best one of the lot, but they didn't pick it -- perhaps because they were after the food shots :)

A few months, after I posted it here, Manshark, who is a very readable blogger, who also meta-bloggs on Kottu, wrote a carefully detailed and very sensitive reading of this photograph.

I really liked it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: How did you get the background black? Did you shoot wide open? I have trouble getting low light pictures sharp like this without a tripod..; 11:19 pm, May 06, 2006
Pradeep Jeganathan said...: there was a beam of light, right on that spot. At 800 iso, my shutter speed was 1/160 -- check the EXIF data on the flickr image, for more.
The blackground is also an effect of the spot light, since it makes all else comparatively dark.; 7:40 am, May 07, 2006

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Pradeep Jeganathan was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he lives and works. He began to cook when he discovered, as an undergraduate in the US, that MacDonald's was terrible. He continued, when he realized that girls like a guy who knows to cook. After he took up photography as a hobby, he got into shooting food. He has eaten a lot of cold meals since, but he hasn't stopped, because taking a photograph, helps him remember what he's eaten. (He eats a lot, and some times, he forgets). His food photos have been published in a variety of international and Sri Lankan print magazines and web sites and his food photo/recipe columns have appeared Zero77 & Spectrum ("Achcharu") and will soon appear in Ink. He's been a featured chef on ETV's The Home Gourmet, his cooking and food photos have been the subject of a feature article in Sri Lanka's Sunday Times; his food blog has also been featured in Femina.in -- the Indian women's magazine.