This is freakin' gorgeous, as are all the photos on this site - Strawberry Shortcake:

I quickly scrolled through without reading the header and thought, "Wow. Is this...

...site run by a photographer or what?"

A huge photo for practically every move they make. Then I saw the header. Duuuhhhh!

Michael

 
Beautiful photographs and all that takes time to stage, plus holding the camera with one hand,

while the other hand is working. Maybe she has help.

Personally, I do not like all those photos. When I take food shots, I take the intial photo of the ingredients, two (at the most) during cooking and the finished product. If a step might seem complicated to a reader or an unusual method, I might take an extra shot.

If I am doing a project for a website, say, processing Hatch chili peppers for freezing, it will involve more photos. Even Pioneer Woman has way too many photos for something as simple as making fried cowboy steaks, IMHO, of course.

 
I don't get this new process of photos for every move you make in the kitchen. Why do I need to see

a carton of eggs? If I don't know what a carton of eggs looks like, I should be packing up this idea of making a cake.

I have a headache and this style has been bugging me for a while. So now is the time for my rant. I find it just a waste of someone's time and simply silly.

 
Not just the step by step photos. PW is funny, a former marketing guru. Giveaways

and product endorsements drive a ton of traffic to her site. In other words: "I'll talk about your product, you cut me a check. See how many followers I have?" That endorsement side of blogging is becoming very lucrative.

 
Karen, I know you enjoy photographing. Do you think this is real photography or very much edited

pics. There are far too many pics, but I kind of smiled to myself, thinking this guy really loves both cooking and photography. Note how he focuses on the water, then the wine, etc... You get it. Anyway, now I am wondering how much of this is edited with a software package; in other words, not a great photographer, just a great computer expert w/ a software package. I now have moved to being cynical.

Meryl, thanks for posting the website. I do love Strawberry Shortcake. Always enjoy trying a different recipe / method.

Thanks!

 
"If I don't know what a carton of eggs looks like..."

"...I should be packing up this idea of making a cake."

Love it.

Rant on Marg. I'm with you. I'd do it, but you know I NEVER rant. ;}

Michael

 
And yet, many bloggers have disclaimers, saying they received no money for the endorsement.

 
I hate it too. If it illustrates a significant step that unskilled cooks

don't understand, such as folding, good. Otherwise it makes me nuts.

 
It's for people who need assistance with reading a recipe? A photo-demonstration. . .

speech of the recipe?

Of course some peoples calls it food porn! smileys/wink.gif

 
...and then there's the bloggers who actually make a living from their blog. Apples vs. oranges

 
My eldest is a good photographer AND a good editor. He uses various...

...photo editing software and can do crazy things with digital images.

He was layout editor of the yearbook last year and this year as well. They won a regional award for excellence for last year's edition. The one for this year has been delivered and he's really happy with it.

These new-fangled electronics are beyond my comprehension.

Michael

 
I had to laugh...

I went perusing the site after all the comments. And while I don't mind all the photos, actually I kind of enjoy them, they sort of give a "You are there" feel to it, but on one of the Thing1 and Thing2 cupcakes, a rather odd tinted cake batter with all of the photos of steps and things, there was not one photo of the inside of the finished cake! Then I go to the Banana Cream Pie (and I actually was getting annoyed at scrolling through the endless shots of looking in the mixing bowl with not much happening), again, finished product and this time it is cut, but it is photographed with the crust to the camera. No view of the layering of the custard and bananas inside the pie. Odd.

 
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