Tomato and Eggplant Appetizer, by Bashar Alaeddin

This image was captured for a client in 2010. A well-known established restaurant specializing in lunch-time food. The brief was to capture the juiciness of this appetizer which they wanted to use for an advertising campaign and for their social media. Even though they had asked me to capture a wider angle to showcase its height as an appetizer since it came in 6 layers, which I did, however luckily they ended up choosing this image as it provoked more of an appetising emotion and the close-up details of the melting cheese was a winner.

Canon 7D with EF 100mm Macro f/2.8 | Exposure 1/100 @ f/5.6 | ISO 160 | 100mm
Tomato and Eggplant Appetizer, by Bashar Alaeddin

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 04
Award Score: 68 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 12)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Food Photography
Photograph Location: Wild Jordan Cafe’ in Amman, Jordan

Photographer: Bashar Alaeddin (Amman, Jordan) Registered
Born in Kuwait City, lived between Jordan and Lebanon most of his life, Bashar has over 9yrs experience in digital photography since he picked it up as a hobby for a course during his university years. Starting from a 2mp Samsung, he is now the founder of a photography & video studio based in Amman, Jordan where his time is split between his commercial day job photographing food, interior, products and portraits; and his night-time job traveling around the middle-east region capturing landscapes, the culture and his favorite genre, long-exposures of the night-sky. He is an amateur astronomer and tried to combine that with his love of photographs showcasing the beauty of the Arabian landscapes under starry nights.

Website: http://adasat.co/
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