This week’s assignment is “Food Photography: Desserts”. This is the first actual assignment (as opposed to Weekend Challenge, which is a little more casual) I’ve participated in. My entry isn’t spectacular — I like it, but in the end it’s just a picture of a cookie, not much special about it. Still, every shot is practice, right? Doing something is better than doing nothing, even if that “something” isn’t as stellar as it could be.

Most of the shots for the assignment are of some coconut macaroons I made as a birthday treat, sitting on a cooling rack in the bright afternoon sun. There are also a very few shots of what appears to be a cupcake at the end of the gallery. These are included because they technically fit the theme, but I actually took them for this week’s entry to the “Life” contest. I don’t generally make a big deal about birthdays (not even “big” ones like this one), but they do feel all wrapped up in the concept of “life” to me, marking as they do our progress through the term of our life. Or, at the very least, I wasn’t coming up with anything else and didn’t want to miss a chance to enter, yes?

This one was better for creativity, not necessarily in the composition but in the staging of the photo. We didn’t have any cupcakes or icing, and I didn’t really feel like making any. So I had to come up with something else that would stand in photographically — and then set the stage the way I wanted it as well. Much different from the macaroons, where I just had to grab a camera and take a photo of what was already there! It turned out to be an exercise in editing as well, as one of the better-composed shots came out with some odd refraction in it that I had to Photoshop out. (Thank goodness for the plain black background and the Heal tool.)

Links:
“Desserts” Assignment Entry
“Life” Contest Week 2 Entry
“Desserts” Assignment Gallery

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