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Awkward Food Photos Avocado

Avocado, is there anything you can’t do? Tasty when eaten with a spoon, tasty when mushed up and eaten as guacamole, tasty when stuffed into the center of sushi.

This humble little fruit, which also goes by the name alligator pear, is so versatile and fun! But for food photography? The avocado is not always the belle of the ball. Dark green in color, oblong, lightly textured. Those words simply do not pop with fun.

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Jump in on the latest food photography trend! Put a bunch of other things into the picture to highlight and complement all that is the avocado. Beans are popular; make sure you artistically strew a few outside your tiny bowl. Include your drinking glass in the back. An end of garlic completes the photo. It doesn’t quite fit in and leaves the viewer wondering what exactly will be happening. They’re hooked and will keep coming back to your blog for more!

Awkward Food Photos Soba Noodles

Soba noodles! I love them. Quick cooking and good tasting, they come in neat little bundles that are perfect for tossing into stir fries.

Soba noodles share a similar awkward food photo problem to the veggie burger mix we saw last week: they are a grayish brown color. But even more alarming, the straightness of the bundle while sitting on the counter presents a rather stark angle with the grout lines on your tiled kitchen counter. This isn’t the Van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the year is not 1950. We need some curves, some movement to our food.

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Bring in that macro setting on your camera and go in for the noodle end close up! Stunning! Look at that curve! It says, “I defy the grid. I will not be bound by tile grout!”. The noodle ends are messy and reflect our contemporary life.

Awkward Food Photos Veggie Burger Mix

If you are a connoisseur of a good veggie burger as I am, then you know a burger mix is not always the most food photogenic thing one ever did see. I recently got Chloe Coscarelli’s Chloe’s Kitchen from my local public library and was immediately intrigued by her double double drive thru burgers. I like tempeh and I like lentils, so I decided to give it a whirl.

This is a super easy burger recipe to put together, but does require a food processor. You basically mix all the ingredients in the processor until it comes together into a mix that can be formed into patties and pan fried. Simple! But that burger mix turns a light shade of gray-brown and looks like a pile of mush when it comes time to document it for the blog.

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Photograph that Rubbermaid container on a slab of wood! Remember, wood is good! If you have a rustic wooden background, it will completely complement that burger patty mix. Look at it pop! The juxtaposition is striking. Try it with your awkward food photos!

Vegan MoFo 2014 Preparedness

Greetings friends! The new blog has been quiet as of late. I am one of the organizers for this year’s upcoming Vegan MoFo so things will likely stay quiet until September when the MoFo magic starts.

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You can sign up to participate on the main Vegan MoFo blog until August 27th. We’re excited to see who joins in this year.

Don’t know what Vegan MoFo 2014 is? It’s a month where blogs around the world pledge to write about vegan food in some way for at least 20 days in the span of the month, which is September this year. Some people come up with fun themes for the month, some like me do daily themes, and some people write about whatever strikes their fancy for each day. The only rule is that your blog must be vegan food for the entire month of September.

Head on over to our signup form and join in this year! Leave me a comment below so I can make sure to check out your blog as well!