Food Photography

 

Tips for Food Photography

1. Make sure the food looks good to start
2. Shoot from lower angle than you think you should
3. Learn the light
4. Get in close, crop in tightly
5. Avoid blur
6. Use shallow depth of field
7. Add a little oil
8. Don't over prop or set yourself up wide

 

E-Learning: Building Resources from the Web

Suitable references to enhance the teaching of theory/ coursework at upper secondary levels.

Web resources:

Theory (http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/)

• Health Promotion Board Singapore (http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/)
  The health promotion board Singapore provide useful information on health. Dietary guideline can also be found. Student could also read up articles or try out the games as it is fun and at the same time students can gain knowledge from it too.
• The Vegetarian Resource Group (http://www.vrg.org)
  This webpage provides information solely on vegetarians. For example what are the different types of vegetarians. From this, it gives the students a better understanding on vegetarians. The nutritional needs for the vegetarians can be found as well.

Coursework

• Craft Gossips (http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/)
  The craft gossips has the best edible food craft ideas. Their ideas are very creative and unique which can be useful for students when they are plating their foods. They should be more creative when presenting the foods so this web helps them alot in giving ideas on how to craft the foods.
• Copy Kat Famous Recipes (http://www.copykat.com/)
  The web; Copycat.com belongs to Stephanie Manley. There are categories of recipes could be found. All of them were plated very nicely. I could borrow some ideas from her platings and use her recipes which are mostly do-able. Some of the recipes, especially the ones that need certain technique such as wrapping, she added video clip so as we can watch and learn. This web is very useful for decision making when selecting recipes and also for practical where we can learn her interesting plating of foods.
• Food Tube (http://foodtube.net/)
  This website is a page where they post videos on how to cook certain recipes. They have hundreds of recipes to learn from. I find this website very useful as i can show their videos to student during cooking class as an ICT tool used.

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Building Resources from the Web (E-learning)

Learning Seed(Theory)
http://www.learningseed.com/c-10-clothing-design.aspx
I find that this website covers different areas from fibers to housing and interior designing. This can be into the lesson in teaching how they can learn to take care of their own clothes and develop their interest in different ares such as design. Hence, they are not restricted to 1 area but they can explore more. It does not restrict the students to chose what they want to learn.It is a very useful website as it is relevant and applicable in our daily lives.

Budgeting(Coursework & Theory)
http://www.civicus.org/new/media/Budgeting.pdf
I think is good to have taught the students about budgeting. It is definitely involves life skills. The students will be able to learn how to spend their money wisely. It shows the different tools in budgeting your finances. The students will able to save more money and with this skill they play apart in helping their family.


FoodTube (Theory Lesson)
http://foodtube.net/
Is good to have videos during lessons so that the students will not feel bored and always listens to the teacher. This foodtube will definitely help the visual learners. The videos can show much more details and some can be easily explained.

KidsHealth (Theory) 
http://kidshealth.org
This is a very good to be used as educational tool. Not all information can be found in textbooks. The website offers 3 categories for parents, kids and teens. The student are able to explore more things in this website. How i can incorporate this, it can be used as self- directed learning.

Recipes and Food Crafts (Coursework)
http://pinterest.com/curbly/recipes-and-food-crafts/
The pictures in this website allows the students to explore different ways food can be presented. The pictures in this website is very attractive and creative. When the student is doing their practical, they may want to visit the website for more ideas.

My Teaching Philosophy

What matters to me the most about teaching is, i want to create the lesson applicable, something that's relevant to the students and for myself. What i have experience as a student is, i paid more attention to topics that is relevant for e.g, meal planing. Is something that i faced everyday. Whenever it's recess time, with this topic in mind, i am to plan my meals and i can apply what i learnt in class about meal planing.

To develop the interest of the students, i feel that lesson should be taught in such way that the students are able to use the given information  and not something to be read and then forgotten.

E-Learning - Online Resources

Food Tube coursework

http://foodtube.net/

This website contains many recipes that are nicely categorised according to a whole range of criteria. This makes it very easy for students to search for recipes that suit their coursework needs. The step-by-step instructional video method also makes it an easy source to model after.

Health Promotion Board theory

http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/

The Health Promotion board is a large database of information that is highly relevant to the dietary habits of people in our local context. Reference to the HPB guidelines when teaching Food and Nutrition topic is essential in keeping them current and updated.

Home Baking Association coursework

http://www.homebaking.org/foreducators/lessonplans.html

This website provides a number of award-winning lesson plans that include interesting and useful information such as evaluation descriptors and detailed methods and material lists. Students can look to this page for reference when crafting their coursework.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration theory

http://www.fda.gov/

The Food and Drug Administration governs the international guidelines for food and drugs. It is important to expose the students to the fact that there is such a resource available for verification when they are unsure about the guidelines of food, packaging and other related consumer issues.

Pinterest coursework

http://pinterest.com/svp/food-craft-ideas/

This page is constantly updated with new and interesting ideas for food presentation that the students can use. Each presentation also comes with the recipe and method to prepare the food. Apart from food craft, pinterest also has many other interesting recipes in other parts of the site and is a good platform for students to gather inspiration when they want to decide on their coursework product.  

Comparison of Syllabus