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Documenting details and getting the subject to relax

Documenting details and getting the subject to relax

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Documenting details and getting the subject to relax

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After I finish photographing Tony with his key lime pie, we realized it was time for him to check and make sure that the dough was finished chilling. It was, but he also had to check the oven to check the real pie that we were baking. When he did, he realized that somehow the temperature on the oven had gotten a little bit hotter than he wanted and the pie was starting to, not burn, but if he didn't put foil over it, was going to burn the top, which would be bad for the pie. And it would be bad for our final pictures, as well. One thing that happened because of this was all of a sudden, I thought I was going to have 50 minutes of downtime while that pie was baking. That ended up becoming a shorter amount of time because the temperature was higher. You can't always expect what's going to happen. You know, real life is happening all around us. And so as much as I try to control the situation, real life takes over. I'm a photographer. I'm not a baker. I've baked a few things around the…

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