Dinner table photography, this is a meal not a photo shoot!

posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 June, 2009 to the photography subset

Yes taking photos of food is fun, but don’t go forgetting your table manners when doing so:

If you do take photos, you need not ask the server’s permission, but it’s polite to follow these simple guidelines: First, don’t take multiple shots from multiple angles, kneel on the banquette, or rearrange the table. Jeffrey Porter, cowriter of the blog Drink Eat Love, says he limits himself to “four or five shots.” Besides creating an unnecessary disturbance, your dinner might get cold. At Alinea, one dish, called Hot Potato Cold Potato, has contrasting temperatures. By the time a diner has snapped the dish from every angle, it might as well be called “lukewarm potato.”

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