Irish Plum Pudding- Christmas Tradition. Macro Mondays
The original dish of the plum pudding originated back to the 14th Century but did not arrive into Ireland until the Victorian era.
It is a traditional receipt handed down in families with the pudding full of fruits, spices, almond apples and cherries and or Irish Guinness/whiskey,
Each member of the household stirs in the recipe for good luck and in the days of old coins were added as a tradition to give finders health, wealth, happiness and wishes (stopped now due to choking hazards).
The joy of one of my Parent's bringing the pudding to the table, turning down the lights and pouring brandy over the top of the pudding and lighting it was one of pure excitement and then we ate the delicious pudding.
The recipe has been handed down from my Mother and my Father was a great photographer and photographed us every Christmas.
For this Macro Mondays project I used flash and a continuous light. It was difficult to take the pudding in one image to keep it in focus so I took a series of focus stacked images and processed them as layers in Photoshop.
Difficult to take the image and light the brandy in a pan and then run to the table and take an image.
The flame from the Brandy was blue so did not come out so well in the macro images (some little blue dots in image) as had to pour over the pudding and then take the shot.
The pudding after 6 takes was well doused in Brandy at this stage was was eaten in one go - yummy.
Irish Plum Pudding- Christmas Tradition. Macro Mondays
The original dish of the plum pudding originated back to the 14th Century but did not arrive into Ireland until the Victorian era.
It is a traditional receipt handed down in families with the pudding full of fruits, spices, almond apples and cherries and or Irish Guinness/whiskey,
Each member of the household stirs in the recipe for good luck and in the days of old coins were added as a tradition to give finders health, wealth, happiness and wishes (stopped now due to choking hazards).
The joy of one of my Parent's bringing the pudding to the table, turning down the lights and pouring brandy over the top of the pudding and lighting it was one of pure excitement and then we ate the delicious pudding.
The recipe has been handed down from my Mother and my Father was a great photographer and photographed us every Christmas.
For this Macro Mondays project I used flash and a continuous light. It was difficult to take the pudding in one image to keep it in focus so I took a series of focus stacked images and processed them as layers in Photoshop.
Difficult to take the image and light the brandy in a pan and then run to the table and take an image.
The flame from the Brandy was blue so did not come out so well in the macro images (some little blue dots in image) as had to pour over the pudding and then take the shot.
The pudding after 6 takes was well doused in Brandy at this stage was was eaten in one go - yummy.