Still Life: Chocolate Chip Cookies

My first digital photography class assignment was to do a still life. I decided to try my first attempt at "food porn"... I think the cookies tasted pretty good, but I don't know if I really caught that with the camera. I learned in class that shooting in Auto, Program, and all of the Scenic modes is "bad," and that most photographers spend most of their time either in Manual or Aperture Priority (Av on Canons). These shots were taken on my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi using the standard kit lens (Aperture f/5.6, Exposure Time 0.040s (1/25), ISO 800, no flash). I cropped all three and did some slight post-processing, using the basic photo editor in Picasa.