Gabbi's Mexican Kitchen!

I had the opportunity to work at Gabbi's Mexican Kitchen again today with Chef Gabbi and her culinary works of art. The latest news is that shes working on her own line of products, and possibly a cookbook...

Look out for these hot sauces, I hear the Habanero is out of control.

To be honest I didn't have time to learn about each of the plates we shot, so I don't really know what all of these are. Here is some cake.

For these food shots we were working on the patio and using ambient daylight as the key. I filled in from the right side using a Canon 580EX II speedlite at 1/16th power.

Gabbi's has a particularly dark atmosphere so exposure is always tricky. In the kitchen, I used a tota-lite 500w tungsten bounced against the ceiling to bring up the ambient exposure ( ghostbusters style ), and then the 580EX II as my key strobe. ( With full CTO gel to match the ambient temp )

They also wanted me to get some shots that capture the action in the kitchen, so I was using shutter speeds slower than 1/15th of a second at times. There is a lot of hit and miss involved here. This lady was a really good sport.

I honestly have no idea what this is but it looks nice. Something like a pork sushi roll I think.