marcelbooth » Food

A mix of cultures

Marcel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:50:38 +0000

Lunch in Chester

Marcel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:25:13 +0000

BBQ food

Marcel — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:54:48 +0000

Cup of tea?

Marcel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:07:52 +0000

Details : 50mm * 1/60sec * f/8 * ISO-320

Greens

Marcel — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:15:32 +0000

At the market.

Canon EOS 30D * 47mm * 1/80sec * f/5.6 * ISO-200 * Handheld

Pick Me! II

Marcel — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:40:44 +0000

This is a slightly differently processed version of yesterday’s photo.

Pick me!

Marcel — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:33:14 +0000

Canon 30D .. 50.0mm .. 1/200s .. f/5.6 .. ISO-100

Leftovers

Marcel — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:18:36 +0000

Canon 30D .. 50mm .. 1/125sec .. f/8 .. ISO-320

Jackpot!

Marcel — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:49:21 +0000

I wasn’t sure if this was going to work or not. I initially tried a few different combinations of fruit (including bananas, but they were too big to include, and really ruined the composition).

As you can tell by the title, my thought behind the shot is to emulate some sort of fruit machine. Aswell as differing combinations, I tried various layouts too, in both portrait and landscape, and also varying the gaps between the items. None of them really looked ‘right’ until I hit upon the idea of having both the top and bottom row ‘hang out’ of the frame, almost looking like a fruit machine display, but also looking like a continuing roll. To break the composition and take it a step further I swapped a couple of the peppers round.
Before trying this fruit machine idea, I took many photos around my flat. Some of my wife watching ‘Soapstar Superstar’, some of her reflection in the mirror, some of the mirror itself, and also other various things around the rooms. None of them really worked that well.

As of today (and if I remember), then I’m going to include how many clicks of the shutter it’s taken to get ‘todays’ photo. (This includes misfires and out of focus shots).

Today, it’s been 62 shots.

I’m also going to include EXIF details for the daily photos too:

Happy 30th birthday to me.

Marcel — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:01:48 +0000

I will confess. I’m actually writing this post on Sunday the 7th. Yesterday was my 30th birthday. I had planned to get a birthday related photo, and post it before the evenings events (some friends round, some wine, and a chinese takeaway), but unfortunately tiredness and time got the better of me.
As the evening wore on, the two glasses of wine I consumed, meant that at 11:30pm I wasn’t in a very photographic state.
I very rarely drink, which means that it takes only a ‘sniff of the barmaids apron’ and I’m inebriated.

All night I was being eaten by guilt, at being a day behind on the photoblog, and not taking a photo yesterday, that I promised to take two today, and I had a very good reason why I had slipped behind.

That was, until, someone on the forums mentioned that surely the photo I took of my birthday cake (to show fellow forum goers) could count as a photo for the day.
So there we have it, that’s my photo for the 6th of January, and my explanation of why I am manually putting the date on this post as the 6th (nothing to do with my obsessive compulsiveness of having chronological numbers in the archives, of one photo each day….oh no siree).

Anyway, onto the photo

As said, I was 30 yesterday. 6th January 1977, I popped into this world, and thanks to my dad liking the pop group at the time “The Marcels” (Who sang the infamous “Blue Moon”), I was given a moniker to live by.

30 years later, and I was woken up by my two children bringing me my cards, pressies and breakfast in bed (Quite a nice display of buttered toast, fruit n fibre, cup of coffee and some of my daugters leftover pink smarties).
After opening my cards and only present for the day (Some aftershave balm, as my other two presents, my tripod and battery grip for my camera, I’d had a week early), I jumped in the shower.

While I was in there, my wife and children decorated the living room with some banners and ‘Happy 30th’ balloons, and got the cake out of hiding (that the cake maker had dropped off the day before, unbeknownst to me).
So out of the shower I get and was greeted with lit candles, and a chorus of “Happy Birthday”, which was lovely.
After making a wish (Can’t tell you what, or it won’t come true), I blew out the candles, and proceeded to take this pic before my son started picking at the letters. He started with a Y but soon demolished a couple of P’s and a T before I got to the cake with the knife.

A nice day was then spent relaxing, and rounded off with a couple of glasses of wine with friends, and a lovely chinese takeaway.

So there you go, that’s my photo for today (or yesterday, however you’re reading this). Have I cheated? Sort of? Have I still taken a photo a day? Of course

Until tomorrow (or today….)