Up until about a month before I took this photo I had only ever used my really terrible, honestly awful, hanging on by a thread LG phone. Every photo was blurry and desaturated, and took a millennium or so to focus the camera onto quite literally anything.
To be fair it was 6 years old.
But low and behold my high school graduation gift came about.
Brand new, sparkling, with not a finger print in sight–
I was inducted to the ipad kid club.
(Complete with a sage green case and new gen apple pencil)
The camera quality blew my mind. I could see all the dandruff on my black cat with this capitalist rectangle’s camera.
So I got to cooking.
While cooking and eating are my favorite parts of the process, making food beautiful is close in third. Ive always loved playing with colors and putting a useless amount of micro greens on a plate just to tie together the color palette. It’s just fun for me.
I made a five spice beetroot pasta, topped with thai basil pesto, chili oil, and a korean mayak egg. I did put this photo in the portfolio, but that one was only edited with my ipads native color treatments, for this one i familiarized myself with adobe lightroom. I havent touched lightroom in about 4-5 years so things have certainly changed, and my retention of vocabulary made googling specific tasks difficult. But i did it! The deep beet color is so striking but the yellow/orange of the yolk adds brightness and richness, whilst the green adds a refreshing look you can practically taste.
image quality and colors got a little muddy but nonetheless I love her.