A few days ago I hinted that I was going to bring up a topic and a related project I started working on. The topic is a life style change my husband and I decided on at the end of January, and it involves a diet change. We have been eating a lot less carbohydrates and minimized the sugar intake as well. We are not following a “brand name” diet, we have been just making more educated choices when it comes to our food. I don’t want this post to be just about the diet, but I do want to say that in addition to losing a lot of weight we are also feeling full of energy.

Eating a low-carb diet means that our vegetable intake has increased, and our fruit choices have changed as well. A few weeks ago I thought of a photographic project I could start that involves our new lifestyle. I want to photograph the food items that we are encouraged to eat, and therefore we have them at home almost all the time. In order to make these images a bit more interesting, I also started learning about food photography just recently. Hopefully, you’ll see an improvement in my food photos throughout this project.

A few days ago I posted some strawberry images. Strawberries are one of the recommended low-carb fruit, and I’ll repost two of my favorite images from the set:

Lensbaby Single Glass at F5.6

Lensbaby Twist 60 with +4 Macro filter at F5.6

Another recommended fruit is blackberries. Here are two images of those, both taken with the Velvet 56 at F5.6 and F8.

I hope by now you started noticing a pattern; berries are on the YES list, when you are eating low-carb foods. The blueberries I photographed with the Velvet 56 at F4 and F8. These have somewhat more carbs, but still not too much.

Today I stopped by a local farmer’s market and picked up some vegetables to eat, and to photograph. The first two pictures are of a head of curly lettuce.

Lettuce with Single Glass

Lettuce with Single Glass at F2.8

Kale with Sol 45

Kale with Sol 45 and +10 macro filter

Broccoli with Burnside 35 and +4 macro filter

Brussels Sprouts with Burnside 35 and +4 macro filter

To be honest, I didn’t love all the photo outcomes. I will revisit some vegetables with my camera again, hopefully with more knowledge.

For those of you who are interested in the nutritional aspect of the pictured fruits and veggies, here are their net carb values (carb minus fiber):

Strawberries – 10 g / 1 cup

Blackberries – 7 g / 1 cup

Blueberries – 17.5 g / 1 cup

Lettuce – 1 g / 1 cup

Kale – 6 g / 1 cup

Broccoli – 3 g / 0.5 cup

Brussels sprouts – 4 g / 0.5 cup

This post is part of a group of posts about Lensbaby related topics. At the beginning of each month we feature images and stories taken with our Lensbaby lenses, and link to each other. Next up in the blog circle is Seonaid Teal, please click this link to see her post and keep following the circle!