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Collection: Food and Cooking
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: my wee kitchen
Date: Jan 12, 2008
Galleries: Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Jan 13, 2008

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 Seasonally, I cater for rich people. On Monday I am doing a small dinner party and vegetarian lasagna was requested.

Yesterday, I went shopping, but because I'm still weak as a kitten from my illness, I didn't manage to get everything.

However, here is some of the stuff on the counter of my kitchen and here's the menu:

Aged provolone and sweet mini plum tomatoes along with green olive tapenade and crackers for appetizer.

Rosemary and lemon roasted salmon, vegetable lasagna made with zucchini and leeks, Fontina cheese and other delicacies. Salad of baby greens, artichoke hearts, toasted walnuts and basalmic vinaigrette.

Dessert will be berries - whatever I can get - tossed with Creme de Cassis and then I'm making a big tiramisu - you see the lady fingers and the block chocolate there.

Wine and coffee.

I'm just starting to use my 50 mm lens and am having focus issues.

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 01/15/2008 08:20:47 AM
Looks & sounds delicious!! Good luck with the party! :) Hope you makes lotsa moola, & feel better soon!!
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 01/15/2008 07:07:23 AM
Looks delicious! I can see why you are having focus issues, the food looks too good to worry about focusing on anything but the food.
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 01/14/2008 09:36:56 PM
What a mix, girl. If you had left the comments blank, I'd wonder if you were pregnant ;)

I feel for the focus issues with the new lens. I'm dealing with my own learning curve with the 60mm macro. But I like the effect here.
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 01/14/2008 04:06:09 PM
I knew there must be tiramisu on the menu with those lady fingers!
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 01/14/2008 08:23:52 AM
OMG- that is a very fine menu ! You have to be careful how close you shoot with the 50 mm- it's a very sharp lens when you get it right !
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 01/14/2008 07:57:46 AM
You are not alone.. I have focus issues quite frequently.. Can see tho what u mean..

Eventually u'll work the bugs out..

Vegetarian lasagna is a favorite... Happy cooking:)
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 01/13/2008 04:32:21 PM
Waddy's feedback helped me look at this, I am not a focus queen, so no comment on that issue

Howver, when it comes to food, that's a diff story!! your menu sounds sublime..best wishes getting that setup with out feeling too sick. That salad is one of my favs and berries..YUM, I can never get enough. Tiramisu oh my! How delish!!
anyway you can speedmail the leftovers to me??? I'll PM you with my address :)

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 01/13/2008 04:12:33 PM
That menu sounds yummy! Fun to look at all the ingredients lined up.
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 01/13/2008 03:32:22 PM
YES! A fellow Trader Joe's junkie!!! I love that place :-)
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 01/13/2008 01:46:26 PM
Looks good and sounds like it will taste great. Just needs some meat. lol
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 01/13/2008 09:50:13 AM
Too bad about the focus issues.....what aperture are you using? Maybe a smaller opening would help. I like the lighting and composition, and the ingredients list makes me HUNGRY!!!
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 01/13/2008 09:45:57 AM
I love the texture and soft colours in this.
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 01/13/2008 08:41:28 AM
It all sounds wonderful, what time is dinner? :)
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 01/13/2008 08:26:46 AM
I suppose that I must be a culinary illiterate. Some of the ingredients sound like they would be very good tasting things to eat, and others I can't even pronounce LOL.
I see what you are talking about with the focus. In this shot it is behind the foreground. If you were shooting autofocus, check to see that you don't have spot metering set to get the high part of the frame. I am not sure about how the Canon works, but I can set the S3 Fuji to focus on the nearest object, or to focus on one of 5 points in the viewfiner. The nearest object option would work good for this kind of shot.
If you manually focused, then your eyes may be a little impaired by the recent illness.
I hope that you recover your strength so that you can do the party without being overly stressed.
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