Tip: make your own photo cookbook!

Sunday 18 September 2022, 13:31 by Elvira Smit | 3,521 views | 0 comments

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You can wait for a distant trip or the perfect weather, but you can also simply photograph a daily ritual. One you can get something out of too. So here’s a simple step-by-step plan for your own photo cookbook.

The ingredients

- A ring binder
- (Photo) paper
- Recipes you like to make
- A phone or camera

The recipe

1. Follow the recipe. It can simply be a recipe from an existing cookbook, I’m not fussy.
2. Dish ready? Take a photo of it.
3. Eat the dish. Want to make it again? Then go to step 4.
4. Print the photo and write or type the recipe alongside it.
5. Put the page in your ring binder.

Advanced tweaks

Make your cookbook personal. As well as the dish, I photograph the people I eat it with. And I add the date. That gives you a lovely memory straight away.

Create a digital template for your recipes, including the font, colours, icons and so on. That makes everything look neat when it’s all in one folder. Unless you’re a messy person, in which case don’t bother.

Example recipe

Give your guilty pleasures some space! I do too. I’m free to use filters to my heart’s content on all my recipe photos.

Vary your viewpoint, above, below, beside or a detail, and look afterwards, once your plate is empty, to see what works best.

Work in themes and use tabs. I like to arrange my recipes by preparation time and starter or dessert.

Example recipe

Have fun and enjoy your meal!

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Ik heb een eigen fotografieblog, Kronkeling. Daar schrijf ik om de week twee artikelen. Over hoe je je blik kunt scherpen, je creativiteit kunt aanwakkeren, en over fotografen die mij inspireren. Geen technische zaken, wél over hoe je leert kijken. En dat blijkt nog een hele klus. Een mooi startpunt zijn de Kronkeltips, die vind je hier.

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