There are some gorgeous blogs on WordPress featuring gorgeous food photography. This is not one of them.
I created this blog in order to connect with others and exercise my writing chops. Also, I’ve spent years crafting original recipes and thought I may as well share them lest they spend a limited existence in a falling-apart notebook.
I had a number of Japanese friends in college and studied the language for a few years. Being a recovering Japanophile, I fell in love with Japan’s take on that pan-national delight, curry. The thing is, I’ve never been a great photographer. I began this adventure about a month ago armed with a Macbook, Photoshop Elements 11, and my iPhone camera. It couldn’t be too hard to hard to create sumptuous foodporn, right? Right?
gah.
My wife glanced over the picture I’d captured to accompany my recipe for Japanese curry rice:
“Hm…” she said. “Very beige.”
Our house isn’t terribly bright. And I suppose it is rather beige. My camera tends to be rather grainy in the dark. Of course, there’s always the flash, right?
Well. No.
Exhibit A:
Our cat, Rose: a beautiful black short-hair with oriental features…
in the presence of flash photography becomes Zuul, minion of Gozer.
“Eat your soul?”
So many other sited here make it look so damn easy. I suppose I could get a nicer, dedicated digital camera. There are just a few problems:
- I’m cheap.
- I’m horrible at remembering to use nice cameras I’ve had.
- I’m cheap.
I’m not getting a five-hundred-dollar camera just yet. That’s why God made Photoshop. So, reader, I present to you, Phenix Nash’s Pornographic Japanese Curry.
(Recipe to follow next post.)
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