Wait a minute, that camera does so lie!

I just came across this excellent site which puts the photographs that appear on various packets of food alongside what’s actually inside those boxes. You’ll not be surprised to learn that, on occasion, there is quite a difference between the two. The site is entirely in German and the thumbnails could do with being just a bit bigger but it’s still well worth a visit. And staying with food photography, the fine folk over at the Consumerist pointed me in the direction of an article at Photocritic which says that amongst the items any half decent food photographer needs to make his food look lovely includes motor oil, cotton balls, brown shoe polish and glue.

Hmmmmm, motor oil.