This is a terrific dish from South Africa that I fixed for the first time two days ago using Food & Wine recipes. The distinctive flavor of the curried chicken, which is a very mild curry not at all like so many Indian curries, comes from the mango chutney and lime juice. The curried chicken sits atop a yellow food that is called polenta or grits throughout much of the world, but South Africans call it Mielie Pap.
Photo of the Setup
The only reason the white reflector was needed was to display the fork mostly in bright tones. When brightening a curved surface, the reflector has to be much, much larger than the area being brightened. That explains why the reflector is so much larger than the fork. When lighting moist surfaces such as the sauce in this dish, we have to be careful to position the light sources so they create as little glare as possible. The glare is actually a reflection of the light source. To understand the related details of that, look up family of angles. Three focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked in Helicon focus at default settings. I intentionally left parts of the image out of focus.
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Photo of the Setup
The only reason the white reflector was needed was to display the fork mostly in bright tones. When brightening a curved surface, the reflector has to be much, much larger than the area being brightened. That explains why the reflector is so much larger than the fork. When lighting moist surfaces such as the sauce in this dish, we have to be careful to position the light sources so they create as little glare as possible. The glare is actually a reflection of the light source. To understand the related details of that, look up family of angles. Three focus-bracketed images at Nikon step size 3 were stacked in Helicon focus at default settings. I intentionally left parts of the image out of focus.
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