October 26, 2016 - 9:40pm
The Bread Builder by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott - wow!
After reading a post by Trevor Wilson I bought this book as a Kindle version. i am only half way through and have learnt so much it amazes me. I will need to reread it a few times I suspect to keep the info in my head but his explanations have clarified many things for me. I am not a hugely analytical person, I bake bread because I love it but I have strayed from the straight and narrow (tut, tut...) and can see that I must go back to recording exactly what I do, dough temps etc if I want to get better. My breads have gotten better but the inspiration here on this site just pushes me to go the next step.
I have lots of things to try now, time will see how I go.
Leslie
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of some of my tile work, The pictures don't do justice to what I was seeing and I was thinking about Trevor and his photo adjustments. Yes, I would love to have my photo show so many colours, reflections that only I can see. Thank you for sharing your visions, Trevor. You know how to open our eyes and inspire.
Mini
Very nice Mini!
You're much too kind!
Trevor
I'd love to hear some examples of what you mean.
Both the reading of the book and the manipulating of the photos are similar in that reading and photography can be seen as a progression from looking out of one eye, or singular vision, to a more complicated level of two eyes. When gathering information using two eyes, binocular vision, the world is a bigger brighter place and more focus can be experienced and then shared. Re-reading and comparing what one sees with one eye and then two...
Try this.
Be in a safe place. Close your eyes and then stand up and walk a few paces toward a wall or object and not into the open space of a room, then open one eye. Look around with one eye without moving your head, like you were taking a picture with your head being the camera.
Without moving your head, open the other eye. Compare. Colours will be brighter, fine lines or thicker shadows around objects give dimension and focus will be blurred on objects of less interest. If there are added reflections of light, like off glass or wet surfaces, they may even be vastly different in brightness and colour.
I won't say that it happens to everyone, but some of us enjoy this exercise and thrive on it. Do it too long and you may get a splitting headache. :) There are some tricks in painting that make a flat surface appear rounder, fuller and more "binocular" and some of these techniques appear in Trevor's photos. The bread is not unreal, it has just been focussed upon.
I think it would be interesting to see Trevor's version of "Glass bread." If anyone could do it, he could. And I'd love to see his version of a "crumb shot."
I wanted to know more about the book re: "i am only half way through and have learnt so much it amazes me."
will come back to you later and give some more info. gotta run....
Leslie
I agree. Not a single recipe in it yet the best book on the subject - Raymond Calvel's "The Taste of Bread" comes close but from a differnet direction...,
Wild-Yeast