Photography by Ian L. Sitren

A Fast Food BLT for Food From Bag To Background

Three BLT sandwiches from Five Guys, stacked and photographed straight from the bag against a deep black background for my Food From Bag To Background project. The sandwiches feature strips of bacon with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on toasted sesame seed buns. Photographed following National BLT Day as an example of the classic bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich offered as fast food.

Wednesday was National BLT Day, and I did a post for it using an AI-created image. But I still wanted to photograph the real thing, especially after discovering what appears to be one of the very few BLTs offered by a major fast food chain.

So I went to Five Guys and purchased three of their BLT sandwiches.

The Five Guys version is pretty straightforward: bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on their sesame seed bun. And there is plenty of bacon. Of course, Five Guys gives you the option of adding all kinds of other toppings, but for this photograph I stayed with the basic BLT. I wanted it to actually look like a BLT.

And stacked together against my very black black background, they became exactly what I wanted for my Food From Bag To Background project, where I photograph fast food exactly as it comes from the restaurant, straight from the bag and in front of my camera. Five Guys makes this a real fast food BLT and a perfect addition to the project.

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