I was looking around my kitchen (where else ;-) for something I use the “old” way and decided on my old wire whisk. I love the lines of these things.
After doing some trial shots to check the lighting was o.k., I found that the whisk looked a bit uninteresting in the shot on its own, so I cracked an egg into a cup and dripped the egg onto the whisk. What a mess! O.k., second egg. I cracked the egg into the cup but poured away most of the egg white. I then upended the cup and hit the shutter at the same time. Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw I had the complete yolk in the image.
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WOOT! THANKS! for the votes and comments and the ribbon.
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To clarify, for small amounts i whisk is used, in probably every major restaurant today. But for a large amount, like cakes a mixer is used commercially. I wouldn't know about households/home use.
Yes, if you used a whisk long ago, and not much since you went electric, that was your old way. And in general, everything electric is equated with modern.
This is a fabulous shot but I really don't want to sound like a DNMC hater but this really does feel like a shoehorn. Maybe I don't spend enough time in the kitchen but doesn't everyone still use a wire whisk to beat eggs?! It just doesn't feel like 'old ways' enough to me. It's a great image and it's hard to mark you down for it, but I have to do a -1 out of respect to all the others that seem better interpreted imho Brilliant shot in every other respect.
Irene, I think the image is awesome and congrats on the ribbon... but I too at first felt that it was a bit of a stretch. I couldn't, however, force myself to vote it down low, because it is such a wonderful image.
In retrospect, just because something is STILL done a certain way, does not make it not an old way.
Hi Leroy. Thanks for commenting. I didn't mean this image to be a stretch in any way. I use my electric mixer most of the time and I hadn't used the whisk for the longest time (I've had it for over 20 years). Even my dear old Mother-in-law uses her electric mixer regularly ;-) However, I see where you're coming from and thanks for not voting me down even though you had your doubts. The whisk was an "old way" for me and certainly no shoehorn.
This is a fabulous shot but I really don't want to sound like a DNMC hater but this really does feel like a shoehorn. Maybe I don't spend enough time in the kitchen but doesn't everyone still use a wire whisk to beat eggs?! It just doesn't feel like 'old ways' enough to me. It's a great image and it's hard to mark you down for it, but I have to do a -1 out of respect to all the others that seem better interpreted imho Brilliant shot in every other respect.
Irene, I think the image is awesome and congrats on the ribbon... but I too at first felt that it was a bit of a stretch. I couldn't, however, force myself to vote it down low, because it is such a wonderful image.
In retrospect, just because something is STILL done a certain way, does not make it not an old way.
I think I should start looking to my kitchen in a whole different way. I don't know if it will ever become a "WONDER KITCHEN", like yours, but certainly worth a try. Congrats!
there's no luck to this timing - a quick look through your amazing portfolio will show you've been in training with tens of thousands of shots to get to where you can be this lucky.
I continue to marvel at your meteoric rise. These challenges are all yours now - you shan't be talking me into one of them again! :-P
Hate to think of how many times you had to wash up the ballon wisk. I tried a freeze frame shot in one of the challenges a while back and it was a nightmare. Here you have excellent lighting and have no noticeable motion blur. Its great how the white of the egg has seperated out vertically.
This is a fabulous shot but I really don't want to sound like a DNMC hater but this really does feel like a shoehorn. Maybe I don't spend enough time in the kitchen but doesn't everyone still use a wire whisk to beat eggs?! It just doesn't feel like 'old ways' enough to me. It's a great image and it's hard to mark you down for it, but I have to do a -1 out of respect to all the others that seem better interpreted imho Brilliant shot in every other respect.
Still beat my eggs with the old wire whisk
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