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Bad food porn from John Kessler.

Protein pancakes! 3 egg whites, soy protein powder, grated apple, cinnamon, cranberries and vanilla with a little bita quick home-made apple cran sauce on top. Ok. So it's not the PRETTIEST thing I've ever made. But it's pretty delish and super healthy emoji. #healthyeats #proteinpancake #uglybutyum #badfoodporn photo by @bexxwood

#badfoodporn photo by @danmakesfart

My spinach and tomato breakfast souffles. #MarthaStewart recipe. #badfoodporn photo by @jamilarobinson

Deconstructed koosha. #badfoodporn #justlikemartha photo by @megorourke

Tragically bad picture of sushi, now in my belly. Xoxoxo #vscocam #vegan #vegansofig #badfoodporn photo from @jenna_marin

My killer duck confit salad. Tastes better than it looks. #badfoodporn photo by @jamilarobinson

Is the lighting too low? Do you need to use your flash? Then enjoy the whole field-autopsy-on-the-side-of-a-darkened-highway effect of your photo. Love the spectral cast to the cheese and that bone, that horror of a bone.

It's a good idea to shoot identifiable food. This could be cauliflower or it could be something from a medical journal that you really don't want to know about.

Mmm, pasty squiggles. That harsh overhead drop lighting did a wonderful job of highlighting the sloppy plating of this dish.

Hello, oblong food object. Shall I photograph you in your entirety or get close enough to discern the composition of your brown meat-substance layer?

An example of the failed arty shot. If I bite into one of these figs to show its ripe interior, will it register as food porn or just porn?

The classic dark shot of arty food that populates Yelp. Look at this fancy lineup of leaves and blobs, of dribbles and drabs. Is that one thing red? It looks, um, delicious?

The lighting is fine. The colors, such as they are, pop. But what the hell is this? Would this picture ever, ever make you want to put any of this snarled business in your mouth?

The blurry extreme closeup of -- what? -- gnocchi? A lone grain of rice? A raw chicken breast? Do not shoot extreme closeups. Not now, not ever.

All hail the white blob!

This dish sure tries to dress up with its dill frills and radish julienne. But it's like lipstick on a pig. Wan boiled tubes in a mustard brown sauce dotted with fat globules will never look appetizing.

Arty me. I wanted to show that I was eating this whoa-nelly expensive French cheese on brown rice crackers. The iPhone decided to focus on the cheese in its birch sleeve and then make the closer cheese on the cracker look like some kind of blurry metastasis.

Perfect lighting, ugly food. See how the creamy chowder is breaking?

Wan, doughy things never photograph well. This shot makes a clear case: don't go here.

Have a leftover tail to a watermelon radish. Stick it against your wall! It'll freak out your cat and make at least 100 unfollow you on Facebook.

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Protein pancakes! 3 egg whites, soy protein powder, grated apple, cinnamon, cranberries and vanilla with a little bita quick home-made apple cran sauce on top. Ok. So it's not the PRETTIEST thing I've ever made. But it's pretty delish and super healthy emoji. #healthyeats #proteinpancake #uglybutyum #badfoodporn photo by @bexxwood

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