Future Salad

The Story

Walking along Upper Street, refusing to let the rain stop me from testing out the new camera to see how it performed in the dark, my attention was drawn to the brightly lit window of the kitchen shop.

When I say my attention was drawn to, I mean my magpie like brain processed two words "oooh!" and "shiny!".

I then proceeded to take several pictures through the window, of which this is only one, but perhaps my favourite*. I just love the texture of the wooden salad bowl and tongs against the plastic chilli pepper and the smoothness of the porcelain spoon rest.

Someone will, someday, make a really posh salad, the likes of which I'd never actually eat, out of this bowl.

*not just for it's photographic merits, which are potentially debatable, but because this was taken at 1600 ISO, the likes of which would previously have been entirely unusable, and is shown here without any noise reducation applied whatsoever.

The Logistics

Location: Upper Street, London

Date Taken: 18 October 2005

The Technical Details

Camera: Nikon D50
Metering: Matrix
Mode: Aperture Priority
Aperture: F4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/50sec
Focal Length: 38mm
Sensitivity: ISO 1600(!)