You Know You’re A Food Blogger When…
I’ve been laughing a lot lately – at myself. So many things I am doing differently, such odd behavior, all because of my food blog. I keep compiling a list in my head and have meant to set it down on paper for a few weeks now. I finally got to it last night and thought I’d share with all of you to see what else you would add.
You Know You’re A Food Blogger When…
You refuse to purchase white bowls or measuring utensils because they don’t photograph well with sugar and flour.
Before you had a food blog, you filled up the camera’s memory card maybe twice a year with pics of your kids. Now, you fill it up once a week and there isn’t a single pic of your kids on the roll.
You want to buy a half gallon of milk in the yellow carton so you can rinse it out and use it as a prop for ingredient pics.
You save your old sugar bag and stuff it, taping it shut so it appears full – again for pics.
Your entire house is a disaster but the place where you photograph food is immaculate!
You cook entire meals just to do tutorials, giving no thought to the fact that you children will not eat a single thing that you’ve made.
You feel guilty if you cook something and don’t take photographs.
You make stew in August 100 plus heat so you can get a jump start on fall blog posts.
You no longer determine your best recipes by how much you love them, but by how many hits they got when you posted them.
You only want to cook on sunny days (food photographs better in natural light.)
No one can eat until all of the pictures have been taken.
What else would you add?
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Aug 9 2008. Filed under Misc.
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Very funny, and true. My photo’s aren’t up to snuff yet. I’m working on it.
House Hubbie
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Oh that is too funny! Thanks for the laugh! Stuffing the sugar bag? Hilarious!
Bill: Your pictures look great! I have always been bothered by the quality of mine but its just something that I have to accept for now until I can sink the money into a better camera than my point and shoot!
Mrs. Darling: Thank you! Yes, the things you do for a good pic! I hope other foodies chime in as I know I’ve left things out!
You start to get manicures because you’re going to hold a cookie in the photo!
too funny!!!!!!! How about an added comment, you spend the entire day having your hair and make-up done the day before the camera appears!!
OMG…How true!
Your husband thinks your cheating on him because you are always on the computer!(Mine only said it as a joke..but I could see how some jealous partner would think it)
Frantic: THAT IS SO TRUE! My mother goes and gets manicures before she does tutorials! I miss manicures…~sigh~
Rosemary- You are braver than me!!! I can’t bring myself to photograph anything other than my hands!!! LOL
Leslie: OMG that is too funny! Bless his little pea-pickin’ heart! At least he gets to reap the benefits of your cooking!
Thank you all for your additions!! Any more??
And here I thought I was the only one who did those things. I’m just a wee beginner, but I’m already noticing my own strange behavior. And I have to take 85 pictures of each thing using different settings because I don’t know how to use my fancy smancy camera yet.
This past weekend, I had my family over for my son’s birthday/graduation feast and I screeched, “Aaah. You can’t eat that until I take pictures of it yet.” They think that I’ve officially lost it.
haha! Drink the kool-aid, Donna!!!
It is funny how neurotic we become, but in the end, at least we’re having fun!!!
Oh that’s a priceless post, and so true……
I would add: You buy new dishes just so you can display the food on them and avoid cropping so much.
Or: Your grocery list each week revolves around what you’re going to blog the next week or so…..
Great post
Oh Ron, I do BOTH Of those things!! Thank you for adding them!!
Christy
This was the funniest thing. I had to share a line or two to a note to the Original Friday Friends, and include a link to your blog… they should be reading it anyway, LOL
Thanks for making me laugh.