Great article. This is one of many reasons why women want our worth and our looks delinked. For the guys that are begging for compliments or some how secretly envious: you can't have your cake and eat it, too. You go up a dress size and people moo at you. You go down two dress sizes and people expect you to make fun…

Both, usually. There are tricks used, mind you. Like cardboard inside the burger to make it look bigger - things like that for fast food ads. If they used the "real" burgers no one would buy them, ha ha, sad and gross looking. Also, 3D is being used more and more for ads and mostly for single ingredients, like fruits…

That's not true. I have been to food photography studios, worked with food photographers (like Michael Roulier) and food stylists. Much of the food is real. They have kitchens in the studios to cook the food. Food stylist help prepare, plate, style and manipulate *food*. Yes, there are tricks, like no one uses real…

I understand those points, naturally. Nothing was vehement, just announcing to the wind that amateur food photography = gross looking vice tasty looking.

Ah, seen...

Man, being a burner sucks. Now I'm off to some charity BS for knocked-up teenage sluts. Toodle-oo!

On camera flash, ya I agree. I had a master class with food photographer Michael Roulier and if he isn't using natural light, the studio lights are set up to mimic a far away, point source light. It's either that or diffuse light. Food looks good because when we eat it we're hungry, otherwise we'd notice how soggy /…

For the depression some D3 and a S.A.D light (or some full spectrum light bulbs) may help to take the "edge" off any sadness or depression that can creep up. My mom has S.A.D and she says that summer can be just as bad as winter because it is too hot to go outside sometimes. As for clothes - maybe start with loose /…

I mean, I know it can't be just me. Amateur food photography makes (what I am sure is tasty!) food look so awful - and yes! slimy, bleh - that I can't believe anyone would even think "yum" and not "I'll never eat again". Maybe I'm a snob, I don't know.

I'll take you up on the tangerine challenge. I'll find someone that has made them look good!

If you actually read what I said and weren't so reactive, you would see that I was commenting on the perceived ease which too many people think photography is, when it is a profession. I have zero problem with people owning things, taking picture, or shit. If you would like to buy a camera and take pictures of shit,…

With the ubiquitousness of digital cameras too many people think they are a photographer. Food photography is meant to make you drool and *want* to eat the food. Most food is tasty. Making food *look good enough to eat* is not as easy as pushing a button. Donna Hay is considered industry standard and when you see…

There's only one mom, owner of MomCorp and copyright holder of "mom", "love" and "screen door".

I know. This fucking guy, eh? He is so eye-rollingly stupid / awful about 99.999999999% of the time.

You're jokes are bad and you have yet to shatter one myth. Kicking a woman hard enough to induce a miscarriage comes with all the risks of battery / miscarriage, including haemorrhaging and death. And we already know domestic violence isn't important enough in this society to warrant appropriate jail time. You…

No one is looking through a trash can for your sperm. That is some serious paranoia. Your sperm is not that special. Get a vasectomy if your stray sperm is giving you paranoid delusions. It's a way to exercise body autonomy as a man who doesn't want babies. Freeze some for later if you think some woman may want to…

You: The condom broke!

I think after the N bomb scandal with the "in Paris" song she had a revelation and the thought process went like this: "I need a more inclusive word... I know! We're both millionaires, so how about... my milli-a" So now she subs milli-A for nigga and greets all of her millionaire rapper friends with the inclusive "my…

How is strength a determining factor in the zombie apocalypse? Are there secret dead lift / bench press competition to determine who is in charge?

I hear you there. Even if it's a train wreck, I'll go see it and probably like it. At least with this movie every time a female character appears on screen I don't have to have my normal inner monologue chant of "please don't be useless, please don't be useless". The soft bigotry of low expectations, eh.