Home-Cooked Foodography

By Hee Jiun Kang

Wait, take picture first.

Do you see yourself in the video?

This is a common sight where the ordinary people in Malaysia probably do this all the time, with their smartphones or tablets that always stay connected to the social media.

Dennis Choo Chin Young, 22, is a food hunter. He treats photography as an art, that everyone is capable with the fundamental skills to perform such act. In his Facebook profile, there are 2 food albums that stored more than 300 photos of foodographs.

“Capturing dishes is exactly same as capturing sceneries, in order to stop the time and to share to the world.” He expressed it in a way of philosophy.

Another foodography lover, Gen Yong Yik Fong, 19, stated that, “ I like to share the food that I have eaten, I’ve been trying to stop myself taking foodographs but can’t, because I will like regret if not taken.” Gen could just simply make himself happy by capturing the foods.

With the companion of technology gadgets, Dennis and Gen tend to have more opportunities to capture the dishes whenever they eat. Sharing is the climate today, however, sometimes the outward might away from your preferences. 

“I am just utilizing the functions in my phone to capture the delicious foods that I had and to share it on Facebook, to my friends and family.” Dennis explained.

Gen has hundred over pieces of foodographs taken by himself. He will download and save the foodographs if he thinks it is yummy and delicious. “I like Instagram recently, because the filters can make my photos look nicer, easy to share on social networks as well.”

Dennis and Gen are doing it similarly to the home-cooked foodography, yet they do not cook at own, style the dishes at own and design the layout at own. They always capture the dishes that completely served with its own culinary art, without redesigning it.

“Original is the best, we have paid for the design, therefore we are actually enjoying the service.” Dennis deemed.

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