paper towel bounce

/

I’ve been meaning to buy a piece of white foam board to bounce light when taking photographs.  This helps to alleviate shadows on 1 side of the subject.  The light bounces from the white board onto the subject to help brighten things up.

This morning, I decided to create a light bounce with a paper towel roll.  I laid it on the table with my oats [paper towel roll to the left – sun coming in from the right], pulled up a few sheets with my left hand [to bounce the light on the left side of the bowl] and snapped the photo with my right hand. 

I wish Chris would have been home to take a photo of me taking these photos.  I’m pretty sure it was quite the scene.

(1 of 13)

Here was the set up….it wasn’t perfect, but definitely helped a bit!

Untitled

Oh yah…the oats.  Pumpkin oats, obviously, with pumpkin almond butter, almonds, granola + coconut.  MUNCH!

Nice + bright on the left side!  I’ll try to show better documentation of this ghetto light bounce sometime soon. ;)

(2 of 13)

Pretty much anytime I have an open can of pumpkin, I make a pumpkin smoothie.  Have you made one yet???  If not you must!!

(3 of 13)

This version had quite the ZING of spice.  I put in a huge chunk of fresh ginger.  Woweee!!

(4 of 13)

I thought I had such a great idea for dinner.  I’ve made similar things before, but this one was totally blah blah blah.

(6 of 13)

First I cooked a GInormous spaghetti squash.  Then I dug out all it’s stringy, squashy goodness and put it in a baking dish.  I only used HALF of the squash and it completely filled this 8x8 pan.  Huge I tell ya!

(7 of 13)

Then I rinsed + cooked red lentils to go on top of the squash to give it a little more oomph!  Spaghetti squash isn’t exactly filling.  These basically turned to mush after cooking.  Lame.

(5 of 13)

I layered the mushy lentils on top of the squash, followed by a mound of steamed broccoli.

(8 of 13)

Then covered it with pasta sauce I did not like at all!  I should have made my own but the convenience in a jar got me this time.  Gr.  Not only was the sauce crappy, my light was fading away.  The sauce was by Muir Glen Organic and it was the “roasted garlic.”  {gag}

However, I highly recommend their “garden vegetable.”

(9 of 13)

The saving ingredient was this parmesan bagel, from a local bagel shop.  I ground it in the food processor for bread crumbs to bake on top.  Uhhh, yum.

(10 of 13)

Awesome parmesan crumbs!

(11 of 13)

Eeeeeeek, kitchen lighting.  This tasted about as good as it looks.  I mean, it was definitely edible and I have eaten it twice now.  However, definitely not recipe worthy. 

(12 of 13)

blah blah blah

(13 of 13)

I have about 589 things to do before leaving for San Fran on Thursday morning.  Please excuse my spaziness!!! :)

Also – I’m so glad you were all as excited about the Vegan Pumpkin Baked French toast as I was.  There were many requests for me to come make breakfast for you…on my waaaaaaaay!! 

Time to rest!

Ashley