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Open refrigerator with food at night
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects
  •  Info One household appliance as requested by Colin. Not quite sure if I should nominate it for category "Objects" or "Food and drink" though. All by me, -- cart-Talk 23:18, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- cart-Talk 23:18, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:45, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - I'm sorry, but the main thing I find myself saying while looking at this is: "So? It's a refrigerator." Perfectly good photo, but whatever would take it past the mundane for me isn't happening. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:21, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Most of us know this view very well, I guess. Nicely executed and something completely different from what we usually see here. --Code (talk) 05:33, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support modern still life with (implicitly present) best before dates signifying the inevitable memento mori... ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Excellent. It is surprisingly hard to take a high quality "stock photo" of the "mundane". Particularly when Cart's fridge looked like this the day before! The subject is isolated on black -- we don't have to concern ourselves with Cart's choice of kitchen tiles or postcards or calendars. The fridge is spotless. There's a colourful and carefully arranged set of foods much like one might expect in a manufacturer's brochure. The labels are removed to avoid concerns about brands and to make it international. I query the wisdom of storing a cheese uncovered in the fridge and why there are unopened cans of coconut milk -- surely that keeps just fine in the cupboard? There's a lot of thought gone into arranging this photo, plus the effort involved in stacking to get the front-to-back in focus. I hope we get more like this at FP. -- Colin (talk) 08:14, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for noticing! First time I've ever "styled" a fridge. A lot of preparation and some artistic freedom for the sake of the photo. The cheese (and the ham) is normally covered with unappealing plastic. While I confess to selecting nice-looking things in the grocery store, I chose things that I normally eat or drink. I didn't want to let food go to waste. The coconut milk is usually kept in the cupboard to the right of the fridge but they made a guest appearance in the fridge as token cans, with nice reflective interesting surfaces, and I was not about to lie to you about the content. ;) The greatest bother when creating this pic was that the lamp is on a timer so it would go out during a shot from time to time. cart-Talk 08:37, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • It wasn't so much the content of the cans (coconut milk) as the fact that generally canned food doesn't need refrigerated. But it's a minor quibble. I first thought the cheese was a cheesecake, which would explain the midnight raid on your fridge. -- Colin (talk) 09:32, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Btw, small tip: If you keep canned fruit (like sliced pinapple or fruit cocktail) in the fridge, it makes for excellent cooling things in your drink, adding flavor while not diluting it. (Stirred not shaken.) There are purposes for keeping cans in the fridge. ;) cart-Talk 09:46, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks! :) Nope, not a vegetarian, the top shelf has a small plate of ham (see the description) but it's true that I eat very little red meat but love fish and sea food (these are kept in the freezer below the fridge). Unusual? That might be right though, ask Ikan... ;) cart-Talk 19:38, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(Edit conflict)* Enthusiastic support Perhaps we should challenge each other more often like this ... this is an excellent result. Yes, it's a refrigerator; but I like the way cart has seen the still-life possibilities here and made the most of them. She could have just shot right into the fridge from the front with the room lit ... proof of concept, alright, but boring! Instead, she darkened the room, using only the refrigerator's internal light, and shot from a three-quarter angle with the door partway open to give it a bowtie symmetry we don't normally associate with a refrigerator (It's there, but duh, why didn't I think of that first? And the raking light, the actual source of which we do not see, with its stark contrast that results creates the kind of mood we see used so effectively in sci-fi or horror movies. As an enhancement, we get the spots of warm color against the cool (in more ways than one) background of the appliance created by the vegetables so artfully arranged.

We wonder what the story is here (well, when we pretend we don't know what it really is). Has someone gone down at night to sneak some food? Because they can't sleep? Or is there something deeper, and darker, going on? Daniel Case (talk) 19:42, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Colin: I know PC exists ... however, I think I only have time to either do this or that, and I have chosen this. Daniel Case (talk) 17:26, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I entirely agree. Praise to Alfred Hitchcock and cart! ... And by the way: the image is all too familiar for me per your remarks on people sneaking for food. --AWeith (talk) 20:07, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 06:01, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects
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