Food « Holly Sisson Photography

February 9, 2009

Espresso and Lunch Today

Filed under: Food,Life — Holly @ 3:57 pm

I continue with the food photography, being inspired by smittenkitchen. Can’t wait to photograph the cookies the kids and I will be baking this weekend…

Another espresso shot, taken with the 50 1.4. Even though it’s a brighter lens, I think the 100 2.8 macro does a better job. (just wish it was a 1.4!)

As I was preparing SavvyMom’s DELICIOUS Red Grapefruit and Avocado Salad, for my lunch, I thought a slice of the grapefruit would look great with some backlighting (shot with the 85 1.2 wide open):

(shot with the 100 2.8 macro)

I have made a few modifications to the recipe. I use Romaine lettuce, as it’s a bit healthier and lasts a bit longer in the crisper drawer then bib lettuce. I also add freshly grated parmesan cheese (as we actually did at the EatSavvy shoot), and I omit the red onion (not a huge fan of raw onion):

Here’s the completed salad, definitely a new fav!

Hope everyone else had as yummy a lunch as I did! 🙂

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February 8, 2009

Food & Friends!

Filed under: Food,Friends,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 8:43 pm

I am completely smittened with smittenkitchen, great food and great photography! And it’s motivated me to photograph some food around my kitchen.

Freshly roasted coffee beans:

Getting ready for the morning latté:

Great crema:

Steamed milk (filled with bubbles, I hadn’t swirled it yet):

Nothing better then the morning latté!

Salad dressing for the yummy Red Grapefruit and Avocado Salad:

This Saturday I had a wonderful Winterlicious lunch at Il Posto with my sister, Monica (whom you may remember from an earlier blog post):

And the brains and beauty behind imabeautygeek.com, Janine:

Great food and great company! Next time we’re going for Bibimbap!

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January 25, 2009

January 2009 EatSavvy: Commercial Shoot

Filed under: Children,Commercial,Food — Holly @ 4:36 pm

Another delicious EatSavvy shoot, with a bit of a (very pleasant!) surprise for me!

I have always wanted to like grapefruit, as I have always heard/read how nutritious it is for you. But I have always found it to be too bitter, and with an over powering taste (especially in a fruit salad). So I was very pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it in this month’s Red Grapefruit and Avocado Salad, I even went out grocery shopping the next day so I could prepare it at home for myself!

It turns out that the part I don’t like is the pith (membrane) part of the grapefruit. That is the part that is especially bitter/sour. The red grapefuit flesh itself is not bitter at all! So the trick is to cut away the flesh of the grapefruit from the bitter/sour pith, as shown in the following two images:

At the end of the shoot we all enjoyed the Dinner Party main course, Roasted Tomato and Sausage Linguini, it was delicious!

The sausage in the frying pan:

Our ingredient shot this month:

The Family Meal this month was Baked Cheesy Pasta with Sausage:

You may remember this cute little guy from my first EatSavvy shoot way back in July, he sure has grown!

What a cutie! And such a good eater too!

Dessert this month was Tropical Fruit Parfait, yum!

As always I’m looking forward to the yummy food at next month’s shoot already! 🙂

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November 27, 2008

Catching Up!

Filed under: Children,Food,Friends,Life,Out & About — Holly @ 9:12 pm

Looking back through my database of photos I realized that I missed posting some to the blog!

Oh, don’t we all wish it was this warm outside now? Love the bokeh of the out-of-focus trees in the background in this shot and the one below:

My children, showing some sibling love!

As I recall I couldn’t get Noah to sit still for long, or even look at the camera!

He did want to scooter though!

Refreshed my look this fall, and took some self portraits, I was happiest these two:

I’ve been trying to perfect my latté art, here are two attempts:

Now, don’t confuse these photographs of my sister, Monica, as more self-portraits! We do look alike, because we are twins! When she was over for Thanksgiving dinner I suggested I take a good photograph of her because she just looked fabulous, don’t you agree? 🙂

The first two images were taken in my front hallway, which gives great light for this, you may remember the photograph of my friend Diane that I took in the same location:

This one was taken in the driveway beside my house. You may remember photographs of my friend Jeff, taken in the same location almost a year ago:

That’s all for now!

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November 22, 2008

November 2008 EatSavvy: Commercial Shoot

Filed under: Commercial,Food,Photography Session — Holly @ 5:47 pm

Yet another yummy EatSavvy shoot! This month’s menu is based around roasted chicken, and yummy recipes made with the leftovers such as Chicken and Rice Soup (perfect for this cold weather!), delicious Baked Pasta with Chicken and Ricotta for toddlers, and Chicken in Phyllo Cups for a dinner party.

This month I will also include some out-takes I shot to give a behind the scenes view of the shoot. Enjoy!

Lemon and Herb Roasted Chicken: