Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Details:

What: Foodie Photog Event
When: Saturday. November 26, 2011
Time: 12:30PM - 5:30PM
Where: 110 Charles St. East, 3rd Floor
Bring: camera, any lighting you want to try, and a big appetitie!
Cost: 1 course = $20, 2 courses = $30, all 3 courses (all day) = $40

After much deliberation and planning, we're going to give this a go.

A few volunteers will be cooking appetizers, entrees and desserts for all to sample and take pictures of.

CHEFS:
Each "chef" is given an allowance of $35 to make enough food for 30 ppl for their course. Chefs are not being asked to pay additionally as they are providing us their services for the day. Depending on the spread, we can have more than one course per chef. Remember this will be sample sizes as this will be an all day affair. Each serving should reflect that. Also, please being any utensils, tools, boards or anything you want to use as there will be some available but may not cover the entire spectrum needed.
All serving dishes/utensils for consumption, drinks, cups, will be provided.
Not all food needs to be made onsite either. There will be facilities available such as a 4 burner stove top, an oven, microwave, exhaust fan, sink, fridge and freezer. They are all household grade.

At each course, one or two servings must be presented so everyone can take photos of it. The remaining portion made can be served as its being photographed. Chefs are asked to bring serving dishes for the photographed food and any other decorations to spruce up their dish.

ATTENDEES:
Bring your appetities! There will be ample space to eat and setup photo stations to try out food photography. I will suggest we will have 2 setups away from the cooking that you can take delicious photos. There is room to accomodate more setups, but we will start with 2 setups for now.

That is TOTALLY acceptable.


if I might add something which just hit me of sudden importance:
Please for those who are cooking, provide a list of ingredients in your dishes. Allergies and the like are something that we should all be conscious of -I for one have a Peanut Allergy - but there are people who showed interest with other allergies and gluten intolerance for example.
In saying that, feel free to make your meal, but please me mindful of these things.

I can't wait to start cooking!

As a note, this will be a Peanut free event... to all chefs, please try your hardest to be peanut free

I'm allergic to peach skin but I can eat peaches...I know...weird.

Are you dividing up who is bringing what course for the chefs? Can I put my name in for dessert??

PS Glad to see this event going through!

Yup, i'll be putting a thread just for the chefs once we have a list going. It'll be divided into appz, entrees, and desserts

How about warez?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

hah hah hah

talk about second nature... pardon my geek speak

This could be the answer to my food portfolio.
Would you have any issues with me using the pictures for microstock?
Please let me know.

if its my dish I want a "micro-cut"

heh heh

We'll have that discussion with all the other chefs so stay tuned!

Will i get allowances for bringing wines (one red and one white)

i didnt' count in Wine for the event, but we'll see how it goes. I don't want to have to figure out liquor licences and all

forgot this event will be host in your condo party room, not your own apt. you have to deal with the property mgt for many things. Don't want to make this a final event

They are getting better, and we can do alcohol, but I just don't want to complicate things for us and tpmg on private property

To avoid unnecessary issues, this should be a BYOB event. If you want to provide the option of a beverage with your food, that is completely up to you. However involving money makes it an issue for which we otherwise don't want to create.

oh shoot.. i didnt notice the entry column for the eaters...errr.. attendees i mean.. hehehe

this sounds interesting. can you describe it more?

tpmg members can sign up to be either:

- a chef & photographer
- spend $35 on groceries
- use the groceries to cook 1 course for 30 people

or

- an eater & photographer
- pay 1 course for $20, 2 courses for $30 or 3 courses for $40

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Yup, that about sums it up

tpmg should fix this double posting issue.

This sounds like fun ... I'll be up for it ... For photogs what equipment are people bringing? Scrims? Boards? Diffusers?

This sounds like fun ... I'll be up for it ... For photogs what equipment are people bringing? Scrims? Boards? Diffusers?

This sounds like fun ... I'll be up for it ... For photogs what equipment are people bringing? Scrims? Boards? Diffusers?

It's often an issue with the poster's Internet Service Provider moreso than TPMG itself, or just based on the location.

People could also, you know... stop clicking the submit button multiple times impatiently.

There has been no discussion of that as of yet. But I would recommend people bring things to contribute and to play with.

Also: for those who might be interested but are confused or dissuaded by the numbers, it is not a meal for each person that you are creating.
Rather it is a sampling of your dish. Enough for everyone to have a little of. If that is spread out over 15 cooks for example everyone would be getting a little bit of 15 things.

Have to back out from this b/c of work.
I'm gonna miss you guys and the fun.

Sweet, another event hosted by J that I'm able to attend.

So, to the cooks:
Who all is planning to participate in which course(s)?

We may have to revise, based on current estimated participation.

Cant wait to see he pics from this event! Yum!

I'd prefer Desserts, but don't mind making something for the other courses if we are short.

Hello.
I am planning a chicken curry dish (main) so once we get closer to Friday I will know how much grub to grab.
Thanks hungry thinking of it .......