The blog

Why Savory-bites?

By the time I ended freshman year at NYU, I had amassed around 80 restaurants on a spreadsheet I kept as a record and I became the girl that everyone called for advice on where to eat. That’s when I decided to make everything accessible with the click of a button. Savory-bites launched in summer of 2007, where it failed miserably for a year (partly due to neglect on my part) but a year later, after some dedication and hard work, Savory-bites began making a dent in the food blogging world.

What is Savory-bites about?

Savory-bites is a food blog written by your average everyday food lover for the average everyday food lover. You don’t have to love food as much as I do to enjoy mouth watering pictures. I’m not trying to be a food critic; I’m just trying to give you my take on places that I’ve been and recipes that I’ve tried.

After studying abroad in London and Sydney (where I was forced to seek some low budget meals), I began cooking on a daily basis. I found that I thoroughly enjoyed cooking, maybe even more than eating out. I also have a love for desserts, having a sweet tooth and all. I recently decided to combine all of my individual food blogs into one so this new site is a combination of my love for the art of making food and my love for eating it (in different parts of the world)..

What type of camera I use?
I shoot with my nifty Canon Rebel XT. When I first bought it, I didn’t know how to use it. Then, as I began understanding how to use a DSLR, I improved. But nothing improved my photos as photoshop did. Yep, that’s right, all of my photos are preprocessed with a whack from photoshop. How else do you think people captivate you with their mouth watering photos?

If you’re looking to produce great food photographs, it’s essential that you can play around with the photos in photoshop. Photoshop can correct alot of imperfections from the picture taking process although the photography itself is just as important, of course.

If you’re an amateur at food photography, here are some links that I find useful:

• Shoot macro shots without the expensive macro lens
• Sharpen your photos with a few simple steps in photoshop
• How to adjust exposure in a snap in photoshop
• Understanding hue/saturation in photoshop
• Overall tutorial on food photography

In my previous posts, I use a Canon Powershot SD1000. It has a great macro mode and with a little enhancing on iPhoto, my pictures come out decently.