Comments on: Amateur food porn must stop

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:23:00 +0000

I know how an oven works as well. And I have a fabulous camera. And I just finished culinary school. ;)

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Sounds more like a drone outfit.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:23:00 +0000

I especially like Joy Divison ant.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:18:00 +0000

Meh. I take terrible photographs, but I know how my oven works.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000

Disappointing Lasagne?

By: bfarn

bfarn — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:44:00 +0000

Hey, thanks to this tumblr I now have names for my next 50 punk bands.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:16:00 +0000

There’s this one tip….

By: tsoyptc

tsoyptc — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:44:00 +0000

I feel as though maybe some of you are (maybe?) not fully getting that this tumblog is a comedy piece, all about keeping your sense of the ridiculous intact – even when you may be as guilty as anyone else of ‘food-porning’. The title of the blog is *fully* ironic – without people posting these kinds of images, this person would have no raw material to work with.

Kind of like http://animalstalkinginallcaps.tumblr.com/ Silliness, not judgement.I laughed my ass off at these because the juxtaposition of the images and the re-framing captions is seriously funny. Demonstrates that sometimes context is *everything*. Like the soup image: looks *tasty*, then you read the caption and your coffee comes out your nose because it’s not what you expected, AND it’s also true.

anyway, just my 2cents :)

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000

/agree

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:59:00 +0000

I agree with you. But I counter with the fact that maybe they only have a cell phone camera because they can’t afford anything better. So they slap an Instagram filter on it so it doesn’t look as terrible as something they shot with their old Motorola Razer.

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:54:00 +0000

There’s an entire culture of complaining about things that people do and a culture of complaining about that as well. Maybe people just need to learn how their cameras work.

By: Dv Revolutionary

Dv Revolutionary — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:43:00 +0000

That tumbler account has far more food issues than I could possibly sort out in this comment section.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:19:00 +0000

True. My family and many of my friends are huge fans of peppernuts – best cookie ever invented. It looks like dog kibble.

I’m suspicious of food that looks “too” perfect. There are exceptions: I have had artful and delicious sushi. But many great foods look… um… preprocessed, as it were.

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:40:00 +0000

People should not be discouraged from doing things they love and being proud enough to preserve the memory and share it. Especially if that thing is healthy and budget friendly.

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:39:00 +0000

You are my hero of the hour.

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000

Thankfully now Facebook has made it easy to unsubscribe/resubscribe. So don’t worry! Most people love babies!

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:36:00 +0000

Posting memes is a sure way to get traffic. On one hand, it could be seen as selling out. But we know here we are going to get some intelligent discussion. One of my goals in life is to not have one of my stupid ideas posted on a major blog. ;)

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:34:00 +0000

I prefer amateur porn. I think something is lost once you have to trade it for money.

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:33:00 +0000

/seconded

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:26:00 +0000

I might steal that…

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:25:00 +0000

I agree 100%. You can quote me on that. ;)

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:24:00 +0000

I think more people should be proud of cooking for themselves! I challenge everyone to send me photos of clear chicken or vegetable soup that doesn’t resemble stomach contents. ;)

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:23:00 +0000

I bet the one at the top of this post is of someone’s lunch for the week. That they made themselves. You know, bullying people for being healthy and economical makes the bully look *so smart* don’t you think?

By: Melanie Ching

Melanie Ching — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Sing it!

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:34:00 +0000

That’s a good idea. I honestly had planned to put photo albums on my own blog, but then uploaded baby pics to a particular photo album on Facebook. Hopefully it didn’t spam all my friends, every time I posted a picture.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:18:00 +0000

Have you seen the size of some of those guys portions? How do I get a portion like that?

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:19:00 +0000

Most of that looks quite nice. I haven’t had breakfast yet though.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:30:00 +0000

No sauce in the world like hunger.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:45:00 +0000

I have a bad cold and laughed so much my nose really, really hurt!

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:24:00 +0000

I can kind of see both sides here. On the one hand, the problem isn't people taking pictures of food, it’s people taking bad pictures of food. Lots of perfectly tasty food looks like barf in a photo, in no small part because the viewer can’t smell it. Also bad photographers do things like use a built-in flash or screw up the exposure so it looks like a blurry mess. Smitten Kitchen is one example of a cooking blog that does the photography simply and correctly: Big soft source of natural light (or a facsimile thereof) from the side, macro closeups when called for. Of course you’re not always going to get optimal conditions in a dimly lit corner of a romantic bistro at night, but maybe be a little more picky about what you post. It can at least wait until you get home and adjust levels, you don't need to tweet directly from the restaurant. On the other hand, people who bitch “NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR LUNCH STOP POSTING BORING PICTURES OF YOUR LUNCH” are grating boors who are welcome to click unfollow and go fuck themselves.