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Sexta Entrega

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Feb 16

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Concepto
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Metodologia

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El maíz se utiliza como un elemento conductor para representar el sincretismo que vivimos a diario las culturas latinoamericanas.

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Feb 9

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The Changing Climate of Food

We humans are busy going about our lives, while nature is in shock from the choices that we make. This series offers a micro perspective on how one part of nature-our food-is connected to climate change. As a career educator, lifetime fan of tiny nature, and photographer, I'm compelled to interpret these issues in a new way.

Every day, we're more intimately tied to food than most anything else. Foods become our personal friends, or adversaries; these relationships play out on the world stage as they shape environmental quality, and even climate change. Making new "food friends" and letting go of old ones, as a society, can dramatically impact these issues.

These images symbolize both the abundance and the threat that humanity has brought to the dinner table. I feature resilient, edible seeds and grains like quinoa, buckwheat, millet, sunflower, and chia, all of which offer significant minerals and nutrients and can be a great source of plant protein. Reducing meat consumption in favor of these plant sources would have a huge impact on reducing greenhouse gasses. Staple crops like wheat, rice and soy are all threatened by human-caused climate change. Red chilis and tomatoes are impacted by fluctuating, extreme weather. Yields and nutrient values of these and other foods are decreasing, putting extra strain on developing regions. Spices such as cloves and saffron, hops grown to make beer, avocados, cacao and coffee beans are all under pressure due to climate change. The relatively new field of "carbon farming" offers exciting hope. I include an image of azolla, the floating fern which is credited with removing half of the planet's excess CO2 50 million years ago, as a symbol of that hope.

Each image was made with a scanning electron microscope, and features natural objects scaled at several times smaller than a pinhead. DSLR macro photography completes the photomontage, to allow a surreal conversation between natural objects, and minute details of themselves. They are inspired by nature, and the artistic visions of Escher, Uelsmann, Blossfeldt, and Chris Jordan. Images are best seen at 30" x 30".

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The Changing Climate of Food We humans are busy going about our lives, while nature is in shock from the choices that we make. This series offers a micro perspective on how one part of nature-our food-is connected to climate change.

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"Trace metal concentration in vegetable crops from plantings close to major highways. What are the benefits from overconsuming vegetables grown in areas of high traffic?"

ABSTRACT

The importance of food production by urban dwellers grows and takes an ever more important place in world alimentation. We showed in a previous study (Chaliev et al., 2014) that vegetables grown close to major highways contain between 2 and 10 more trace metal than vegetables bought in supermarkets. Recent researches suggest that these abnormally high levels of metal contaminants may be associated with an increased risk for health. Today, we invalidate this assumption and prove in contrary the benefits for health of an over-consumption of vegetables grown in high traffic areas. We reveal the development of new physical capabilities on several subjects, such as the ability of generating light, walking on water, levitating and resisting to extreme coldness. This major discovery leads us to rethink horticulture and its impact on human development.

1. Introduction

Nowadays, urban horticulture is booming across all socioeconomic groups around the world. Recent years have seen an important increase of allotments gardens and an amplification of their attendance. Depending on their location, these gardens play different roles in the society: food production, reinforcing intra-community exchange, reduction of socio-economic and environmental issues (eg, Brown and Jameton 2000; Waliczek et al, 2005; Wakefield. et al., 2007; Leake et al, 2009). To make these new and growing areas accessible to most people from cities, they are often built near major highways, because of the lack of space in urban areas.

The proximity of those garden with urban and road environment led to a questioning about their pollution levels. Many studies have recently been conducted on the impact that the major roads in these areas, especially on crops for food production. It has been proven that crops close to road contain particularly high levels of trace metal (Shinn et al., 2000; Alloway, 2004; Clark et al., 2006). The literature on the topic also reported a serious risk to public health due to the consumption of fruit and vegetables from polluted sites. (Eg Qadir et al, 2000; Hough et al, 2004; Finster et al, 2004; Pruvot et al, 2006: Kachenko and Singh, 2006; Sharma et al, 2007; Khan et al, 2008). We challenge this statement in this study with new observations. We demonstrate that consuming vegetables containing a high level of trace metal can become beneficial for health, as demonstrated by the development of new physical capabilities.

In our study, we aim to explore the relationship between local traffic burden and the trace metal concentration in the edible biomass of different horticultural crops cultivated by gardeners close to major highways. The impact on health and the benefits of overconsumption of those vegetables constitute the second part of this research.

We analysed trace metal accumulation in crops and the influence of traffic burden on the concentration of trace metal in different eatable species. Trace metal level was analysed on different species (carrot, tomato, kohlrabi, mint, basilica, thyme, nasturtium...) and compared to the same species found in supermarkets.

Our results show that trace metal levels change according to allotment place relative to high traffic areas.

Then we analysed the impact on human health of the overconsumption of fruits and vegetables grown in those areas. We performed a study on several human subjects, who ate products coming exclusively from those crops. We analysed the physical capabilities changes according to the level and length of consumption. We found, against all odds, that overconsumption of trace metal beyond a certain limit generates health benefits, instead of generating health risks. The test subjects have developed impressive physical capabilities in direct consequence of a high rate of trace metal content in their bodies. In this way, a subject with abnormally high levels of lead originating from carrots and mint's overconsumption, developed levitation abilities above fields also containing a high lead levels. The magnetic repulsion effect created between these two bodies act like magnets facing opposite poles. These capabilities have been observed to depend heavily on predominant trace metal contents in the body and their origin...

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"Trace metal concentration in vegetable crops from plantings close to major highways. What are the benefits from overconsuming vegetables grown in areas of high traffic?" ABSTRACT The importance of food production by urban dwellers grows and takes an ever more important place in world alimentation.

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El maíz esta presente como elemento endémico y unificador en cada una de las escenas. Asimismo se hace uso de elementos cotidianos (no tradicionales) para generar contraste visual y  hacer alusión al sincretismo.

En la composición el triangulo es la figura principal aludiendo a las pirámides tan representativas de las culturas originarias.

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Es un proyecto visual que combina la fotografía comercial, específicamente el food styling, y la fotografía documental, para mostrar de forma inusual, el sincretismo presente en la cultura latinoamericana.
El maíz se usa como elemento unificador.
La serie se presenta en forma  dípticos : una fotografia tipo documental y una de food styling que se entrecruzan y se contrastan.

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SINCRETISMO
COMIDA
RELIGIÓN
ESPIRITUALIDAD
TIPOS DE ILUMINACIÓN
ELEMENTO DE MAÍZ
ELEGANTE
SIMPLE
USOS DEL MAÍZ
MAYA OLMECA
LA CONQUISTA

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Luz Natural 6-7am

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Luz, concepto

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Luz Natural 4-5pm

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If you aren't familiar with Sunwink yet, you may want to get yourself acquainted because they're about to take over the herbal tonic industry. They just recently launched at all of the Whole Foods across the Rocky Mountain region. We've been lucky enough to work with them this year on quite a few shoots. If you'd like to see a previous BTS post of our first ever Sunwink shoot, you can check that out here.

When we first came across their brand, they had an entirely different bottle for all their herbal sparkling drinks. It was clear with a really pretty illustration which drew us in right away. Once we were in the process of working with them, we found out that they were undergoing a major rebrand. This was exciting to us because it meant that we were going have a part in creating the new look and feel of their brand through photography. We also loved the direction in which they were headed with their new matte blue bottles.

For this particular shoot, Sunwink wanted a more natural and messy vibe. They were looking for something a little less posed and more accidental than anything. We stayed away from using wooden blocks and fabrics like we had done for them in the past. Instead, we used a lot more flowers, plants, and herbs to really emphasize the fact that the ingredients that Sunwink uses are indeed all natural.

Most of our product shoots happen inside our studio but it was a nice change to go outside and use our favorite natural light source: the sun! We loved getting to play around with shadows in the afternoon because they're usually really crisp and defined around that time. For this shoot, we also created a few GIFs which included a lemon rolling out of the scene, a Sunwink drink being poured into a glass, and a glass cup being filled with flowers. Check out some fun behind the scenes shots below and If you'd like to see a few of the final shots from this shoot, click here.

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If you aren't familiar with Sunwink yet, you may want to get yourself acquainted because they're about to take over the herbal tonic industry. They just recently launched at all of the Whole Foods across the Rocky Mountain region.

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Hoy vamos a ver un nuevo esquema de iluminación en fotografía culinaria, que te servirá también para tus fotografías de producto ¡Adelante, sigue leyendo!

Hace un par de meses, comenzaba en el blog esta nueva sección en la que te enseño algunos esquemas de iluminación de estudio en fotografía culinaria. El que vamos a usar hoy, suelo emplearlo mucho para algunas de mis fotografías de producto, y algunas culinarias.

Aprenderás cómo crear una fotografía como la que ves a continuación:

Estas ricas lentejas con verduras necesitaban un tipo de iluminación que diese vida a este tipo de platos. Lo cierto es que no suelen ser demasiado bonitos. Lo que en inglés llaman "brown food". Solamente con el nombre (comida marrón) se te quitan las ganas...

Además del estilismo específico para el plato, una iluminación que cree algo de brillo en la superficie, y que resalte la textura creada con las lentejas, verduras y tomillo, nos puede ayudar mucho.

Observa unos segundos el siguiente esquema y te detallo en que consiste cada uno de los elementos.

Esquema de iluminación en fotografía culinaria. II:

Aquí tienes una imagen del making of, para que lo puedas ver mejor:

El platito de lentejas con verduras descansaba sobre una de las superficies de madera y un fondo de tela que aprendemos a hacer en el curso de Fondos y superficies para fotografía. Muy adecuados para este tipo de plato.

A la derecha, en una posición de las 3 en el reloj, coloqué una de mis unidades de luz continua. La luz colocada es esta posición, potencia la textura de las lentejas y las porciones de verdura.

No coloqué ningún reflector del otro lado, para que se crearan más sombras que dieran volumen, textura y vida a la composición. Me interesaba una iluminación algo dramática. Si quieres eliminar sombras, y volcar algo más de luz, puedes colocar un reflector en una posición de las 9 en el reloj.

Además, y esta es la clave para crear algo de brillo en la superficie de las lentejas, coloqué otra de mis unidades de luz, de tal manera que la softbox quedase en paralelo con el plato. Por supuesto, mi unidad de luz no está preparada para adoptar esta posición. Para hacerlo, tengo que engancharla en la silla que ves en la foto del making of. Pero si quieres algo mucho más práctico y profesional, echa un vistazo a estas "jirafas".

Este es un esquema de iluminación que en algunas fotografías de producto te puede venir muy, muy bien ¡Lo utilizo constantemente!

Espero que te haya gustado y sobre todo, que te sea útil ¡Pruébalo y practica, no te arrepentirás!

Y tú ¿Usas más luz natural o de estudio en tus fotografías culinarias? Cuéntamelo en comentarios ¡Millones de gracias por tu atención!

¡Hasta el próximo día!

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Esquemas de iluminación en fotografía culinaria II - AQSLN

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Hoy vamos a ver un nuevo esquema de iluminación en fotografía culinaria, que te servirá también para tus fotografías de producto ¡Adelante, sigue leyendo! Hace un par de meses, comenzaba en el blog esta nueva sección en la que te enseño algunos esquemas de iluminación de estudio en fotografía culinaria.