Mmmm... can you smell the apple sweetness and spices? My daughter and I worked together to make shepherd’s pie for dinner a couple of nights ago. She wanted to have a bottom crust, but since the pie crust recipe was for a double crust, we had leftover dough. She asked if we had any apples, because she had seen a recipe for mini pies made in a muffin tin, and she wanted to try it out. So I peeled and chopped the apples, while she worked on the sweet, buttery, cinnamon sauce and rolled out the remaining crust. Aren’t they cute? And oh, so tasty!
I wanted to be sure to get a photo of them, and I was delighted when she wanted to once again work together. I’m so glad she did, because she is more creative than I am. We have turned my married son’s bedroom into a sort of mini studio. It has a nice exposed brick chimney in it, so we used it as a backdrop. I used my son’s 60mm macro lens to create the blurry background. One of the things I’ve learned when composing a photo is to have an odd number of objects, rather than an even number. I'm not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the Golden Ratio?
My daughter thought you might be interested in seeing our unorthodox setup: one of the shelves from a bookshelf, a couple of wooden bowls, a paperback book, a box of tissues, and a box of old flatware. Hey! Whatever works, right?
Wow! Those mini apple pies look great! Rene, tell me about the golden ratio. I don't know what it is. I do agree that having an odd number of objects in a photo is better than an even number, and also don't know why that is. I think it might be that an odd number makes the picture seem less 'posed'; the objects less 'lined up', more random and natural. Just an observation. In any case, I love your work. Please continue. :-)
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