A Behind the Scenes Look at Some of the Food Photography in Thailand 180º, Part 1(อาหาร)
(Updated October 19, 2015)
When I started using a fisheye lens on this project, I didn’t expect to be doing so much food photography. As I later found out, after doing many tests for focus and depth of field vs aperture, this lens is for the most part, excellent for food photography. There are many food photographs in the book, some are a whopping 9.6″ in diameter, here’s a look at four of them:
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Fishermen’s Platter
Above, is the first food photograph that I took for this project. I really liked the DOF and the way the whole story could be told in a single image. It almost didn’t happen, since we were starving and had to wait well over an hour for this meal. When it arrived, after I had downed a record number of Singha beers, the squid was dry and so overcooked that it wasn’t immediately apparent, exactly what it was. My wife patiently helped arrange the food and after a few clicks of the shutter the food was woofed down.
***Folks not interested in the technical aspects of photography, may want to skip the next paragraph.***
***ใครไม่ต้องการข้อมูลทางเทคนิคก็ข้ามไปย่อหน้านี้ไปได้เลยนะ***
I was a bit lucky with this photo, as focus with an 8mm lens is much more difficult than one might think. My heart was broken many times, before I shut off the auto(un)focus, and relearned the art of focusing. At home, I downloaded some focus charts from the web and placed them all over a room and my wife. I recorded all of the distances, focus points and f-stops, enlarged the images on my monitor, made careful notes, until I learned it’s secrets and was the master of this lens.
Khao Soi Gai
Above is an image of Khao Soi curry with chicken, and all of the condiments. This dish has so many ingredients, including: deep-fried crispy noodles, egg-noodles, pickled mustard greems, shallots, lime juice, ground chillies fried in oil, and meat in a curry-like sauce with coconut milk.
When I got too close to the bowl, the noodles filled the frame, but by backing off I was able to show everything that is usually served with it. This restaurant, Fah-Haam in Chiang Mai is very good. In fact, other than our house, it’s the best I’ve ever tasted.
“ข้าวซอยไก่” พร้อมเครื่องเคียง ตอนจ่อเลนส์ลงไปใกล้ๆ เส้นข้าวซอยทอดเต็มเฟรมเลย บดบังรัศมีของความเป็นข้าวซอยและเครื่องเคียงจนหมด แต่พอถอยออกนิดนึงจะทำให้สามารถเห็นเครื่องเคียงและแสดงให้เห็นว่าอาหารจานนี้มีอะไรๆ มากกว่าเส้นข้าวซอยทอดที่ตบแต่งมาด้านบน ร้านที่เราถ่ายภาพนี้คือร้านฟ้าฮ่ามในจังหวัดเชียงใหม่ อร่อยมาก.. ถ้าไม่นับที่ทำเองที่บ้านนะ
Pad Thai
Loong Pa Pad Thai, Bangkok
The restaurant in the image above is, Loong-Pa Pad Thai, one of the oldest and best Pad Thai restaurants in Bangkok. In the 90’s when I first lived in Bangkok, I used to marvel at the long lines in front of this simple little place. I had no idea that there were so many different variations of this noodle dish. We ordered it with shrimp fat to give the noodles a bright orange color. Photographing the frying of these noodles with a fisheye lens was very unpleasant. My lens was just inches from the wok, at arms length, and hot oil was burning my knuckles and coating my lens. After a moment of panic, I cleaned the lens and had another go at it. In all there were only two shots that were useable.
Yen Ta Fo
Yen Ta Fo, can be a very exotic dish. Featured in the bowl above are Mantis Shrimp, with a supporting cast of crab meat, fried crisp shrimp, squid, jellyfish, fish cake balls, tofu and morning glory vines, topped with red fermented tofu sauce. (A word of caution though: Some folks, like my wife are deadly allergic to mantis shrimp, so be careful if you’re allergy prone.) The lens was about 6 inches from the monster shrimp, which helped exaggerate it’s size. This brings this edition of EdWorld to a close. –I’m going to have some Thai food.
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Photographer George Edward Giunca, and his Thai wife, Apisatha, have traveled around Thailand armed with a circular fisheye lens to create a photo essay on the rich cultural diversity, and abundant natural beauty of the Kingdom of Thailand. Fleeing from angry water buffaloes, slapping huge mosquitoes, watching exotic festivals and religious rituals, gorging on delicious spicy food, applying aloe vera cream to sunburned skin, wading through rice paddies, getting drenched to the bone by heavy monsoon rains, and gawking at breath-taking scenery; made it a journey of epic proportions! The result is the book, THAILAND 180º. Later, they traveled extensively through Myanmar, Malaysia, and India, gathering a massive collections of 180º photos. They currently live in Bangkok.
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