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Yum, that food you ordered is so beautifully-presented that you’re going to take a lovely photo of it, aren’t you? I bet you’re going to use the flash because it’s dark in this fancy restaurant, too, huh?
The NYT has a funny story about restauranteurs who’ve absolutely freaking had it with the photo habits of their patrons, and we have to say, we agree. As if the loudmouthed jerks sitting next you weren’t enough, right? You should really be able to enjoy your delicious steak frites without some jerk snapping a photo next to you, right? Right? [NYTimes]
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Nope – just makes me hungry!
I think it’s wierd as hell, but I can usually keep a straight face unless they’re using a professional SLR, then I just crack up
I’m the same. I was in a pub on a Friday night once where they serve food until 10pm, there was this American family and the daughter photographed every meal with her DSLR, surrounded by dozens of us beer swilling locals thinking WTF?
The only time I’d ever want to take a photo of my dinner was if I was eating it off a naked Emma Stone.
I personally have no qualms with it. Good food, carefully planned and lovingly presented, is a creative expression as much as any art form can be, so why not capture its (fleeting) existence in a photo? Not with any of that Instagram b*****t, but just for what it is?
[putting on pretentious hat] either way, art is supposed to trigger a response from the observer – even if it’s a shot of a greasy Royale with cheese (metric system) my reaction is invariably “God I’m hungry, and boy do I want that, and damn am I jealous”, so mission accomplished for the photographer, surely?
If I cook a really fancy meal that I’ve invented and invested time to make it look good, why shouldn’t I be allowed to take a snap and show off a bit?
Nice hat
I read the NYT article and I think it’s more with people who don’t know how to use a camera than the actual photo taking that is the problem.
I agree that camera flashes are annoying in a restaurant environment. However they should not even be used as all it does is makes the images look horrible the food unappealing, especially with camera phone flashes.
So keep taking pictures of food, just switch off the flash.
I quite like it when I cook for people and they take photos of the food. I take presentation of the food pretty seriously, so its nice when its appreciated
It doesn’t irritate me too much when people do it in restaurants either as long as they don’t make me wait to start eating
Both food and sex; yes, people taking pictures of themselves having sex is alot worse.
Yes, I hate people who do this, in fact I hate people who do anything. I’m not specific when I commit my murders, that is why the police haven’t found me yet.
Still a nob. And not funny…
Usually when I eat out the food doesn’t stay on the plate long enough for anyone to get a picture. It’s just a blur. The only time I take pictures food is when I’ve spent more than half a day preparing and cooking it.
*Really* annoys me.
My wife has a habit of doing this
With a massive DSLR
see at least dose’nt use the flash
Mine too, also sometimes with a dslr, but mainly either of our phones. Its not too bad, just gets a little annoying when I’m sitting salivating and not allowed to touch my food that’s getting cold (or warm)!
Pictures of food filling up my news feed is one of (if not the single) most annoying thing about Facebook. Between that and people moaning about work, I find myself using Facebook less and less each day.
It’s when people ‘share’ post’s about injured babies that need ‘likes’ to get better that really annoys me! In fact any stuff that new mother’s post other than pictures of their own child, that I don’t mind.
I could rant all day about the state of social networking on Facebook. A summary list should suffice for now:
1) Pictures of food
2) Instagram uploads (why does everyone consider themselves an artistic genius?)
3) All inspirational posts
4) All “OMG LOOK AT THIS *FAKE* PICTURE! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT JUST HAPPENED” posts
5) Comment fishers e.g. “OMG worst day ever…*wait for inquiries*”
6) Twitter posts and hash tags
7) Couples…
The lists goes on and on.
I’ve had to take pictures of food in restaurants before when helping the missus with a review (hard life I know!) and I always feel incredibly conspicuous and very self concious of it – especially with a big camera. So it’s not something I’d ever do out of choice.
But sometimes, at home, you rustle up something so mouth watering that you just want to make everybody else jealous/hungry!
I think it’s ok to illustrate a recipe, or maybe something spectacularly well presented but just ordinary meals, no.
I admit to always doing that whenever I’m in Japan – but that’s because watching (and then eating) food in Japan is as much part of the holidays as visiting temples and shopping at Akihabara. And the Japanese are too polite to tell me off…
I had Foodspotting app on my phone for a while, but I think I used it twice.