Posting Food Photos. Yes or No?

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So what do you think?

'Winger

I do it elsewhere. Here, it's rare to see anyone posting pictures of any kind.

I'm never offended by pictures of food.

Although I will occasionally post food photos on line, I think for the most part I fall into the following group:

"No, because pictures of other people's food always make the food look gross."

I truly don't believe that the food is gross, but simply most people, myself included, have no concept of how to take a photo or try to do so with a crappy camera (guilty again)...more often than not the effort falls far short and evokes a meh.

I don't often post food photos myself, but I love seeing them. Dining vicariously I guess. I even visit foodgawker every couple of days. Often a food photo will lead me to a recipe I'd like to try.

Here's a "food" photo of mine taken with my cellphone at my desk one morning after having given up coffee... which I've now UNgiven up.

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Traditional handrolled Chunmee green tea "handpicked for me by the foodies at Giant Eagle." Gotta love those foodies.

[Jenise]

I love seeing pictures, and I take more pictures of my food than shows up here. Sometimes I just don't think the photograph does the dish justice, but more often because this site makes it a PITA to do it. Have to go to Picasa, export the photo, come back, then find it again, upload, place inline, submit. Whereas with Facebook, say, it's just grab grab it from Picasa and done.

I sense that's why more of you don't post photos here so much either. It's certainly not because it's frowned upon or somehow against our culture.

I love seeing pictures, and I take more pictures of my food than shows up here. Sometimes I just don't think the photograph does the dish justice, but more often because this site makes it a PITA to do it. Have to go to Picasa, export the photo, come back, then find it again, upload, place inline, submit. Whereas with Facebook, say, it's just grab grab it from Picasa and done.

I sense that's why more of you don't post photos here so much either. It's certainly not because it's frowned upon or somehow against our culture.

I don't use Picasa so this may be totally wrong but, can't you go to Picasa and copy the URL of the photo then just paste it between the img tags in a post here? Or don't they let you "steal" their bandwidth?

I have no objection to seeing food pictures in online posts, but would be irritated by a dining companion snapping shots of their food at the table. I hope none of them ever ask to (or just assume they can) photograph the food on my plate.

[Jenise]

I don't use Picasa so this may be totally wrong but, can't you go to Picasa and copy the URL of the photo then just paste it between the img tags in a post here? Or don't they let you "steal" their bandwidth?

If that's possible I'm not aware of it, Fred. But I'm not that technical: what I described is the only way I can see to get it done.

If that's possible I'm not aware of it, Fred. But I'm not that technical: what I described is the only way I can see to get it done.

You might give this a try and see if it works.

Click on a single image in your Picasa album. On the right hand side of the window you’ll see the “Link to this Photo” button, click it.

You will have two separate HTML codes for sharing: First line of HTML code is for email or instant messenger sharing. This is the one you would paste into your email or text message.

The step below is the text you want to copy:

The second line of HTML code is to embed into your website (your forum post in this case). Copy the second-line of code and then paste it into the source code of your website or blog.

On this forum you would do this to show the photo in your post:

Click the [Img] button above the post input text box. This will automatically insert the appropriate html image tags into the post and select the insertion point for the URL you have copied. Then just paste and you will be embedding the image from your Picasa album.

I have not tried this because I don't use Picasa but it should work.

Hope this makes showing a photo easier.

I am seriously into food porn. I knew I had a problem when I fully examined the Burger King hamburger in their commercial and tried to duplicate it at home with my little Kodak. I like taking food pictures and I love looking at other people's food pictures. I only take pictures of food I make at home, and I only share them here and keep them as a rolling screensaver on my computers. They often elicit a mood or a memory and I'm off running with another recipe. Yep, I'm smitten!

I love seeing pictures of food other people make or what I make. I have a backup system for all my pictures because I work with Linda Stradly and submit recipes, photos to her website. I don't mind if a picture is bad....we all have to learn a new skill and my photos are better now than they were a year ago. I can see it when I go back and look. Take a look at "Fine Dining." A friend of mine who is totally self taught with her photography and food. She does a beautiful job. I have friends who send me pictures all the time of food they make and how it was presented, and I do the same. It is fun, harmless, does not cost anything and good, clean fun.

Yes, I'm all for it.

If you're describing a dish or cooking a recipe it helps enormously to see what it looks like or should turn out like.

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My contribution, an American breakfast.

I love food photos. Both taking them and seeing other peoples'. I come by it honestly. Growing up, the stacks of photos from my parents' many trips abroad usually contained more food photos than anything else.

Here's one of my favorites from our recent Mediterranean cruise. Look away if it grosses you out!

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I sense that's why more of you don't post photos here so much either. It's certainly not because it's frowned upon or somehow against our culture.

That's why I rarely post photos. I will use the "attachment" feature, but that's about as far as I'll go.

I generally like seeing the photos here, though.