Post Your Food Photography

Yes please! I'd love to see it.

-Duck- wrote in post #18652872
No skewers were used. I can post a BTS photo if anyone is interested.

Please do. No skewers? Then who were your assistants, Penn and Teller?

Flavor at every level BTS

OhLook wrote in post #18652899
Please do. No skewers? Then who were your assistants, Penn and Teller?

Thanks for making me smile. The visual of Penn and Teller in my studio waving their hands to make things float is priceless.

-Duck- wrote in post #18652902
Flavor at every level BTS . . . The biggest trick was building the layers and adjusting them without toppling the previously built layers.

A delicate task for sure. I can imagine all sorts of things going wrong. Juice drips from the tomato, handling bruises the lettuce, the meat refuses to curl prettily.

I went back to the final image to look for residual bits of wire. There's one segment below a curve in the ham and possibly another between onion rings.

-Duck- wrote in post #18652902
Flavor at every level BTS

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Single gridded softbox behind product, camera left. Wire scaffolding rigged between two light stands. Missing is a second reflector at camera right behind the wire. The biggest trick was building the layers and adjusting them without toppling the previously built layers. Once a layer was added it had to be height adjusted for perspective. The fine tuning is a test of patience as things tend to slide off.

Anyone want to try this?

Thanks so much for a peek behind the curtain! This is certainly beyond my current skill set..............and patience.

OhLook wrote in post #18652912
A delicate task for sure. I can imagine all sorts of things going wrong. Juice drips from the tomato, handling bruises the lettuce, the meat refuses to curl prettily.

I went back to the final image to look for residual bits of wire. There's one segment below a curve in the ham and possibly another between onion rings.

Damn, good eye! That's what i get for working at this late into the night. Thanks for spotting those. Got them fixed.

Bardi wrote in post #18652916
Thanks so much for a peek behind the curtain! This is certainly beyond my current skill set..............and patience.

You'd be surprised what you can do with a little effort. Don't doubt yourself. Like anything, it just takes a little practice.

That bts pic is awesome

-Duck- wrote in post #18652902
Flavor at every level BTS

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Single gridded softbox behind product, camera left. Wire scaffolding rigged between two light stands. Missing is a second reflector at camera right behind the wire. The biggest trick was building the layers and adjusting them without toppling the previously built layers. Once a layer was added it had to be height adjusted for perspective. The fine tuning is a test of patience as things tend to slide off.

Anyone want to try this?

Nice job and I really like the lighting. Your method reminds me of a video I watched recently where the same technique was used.

-Duck- wrote in post #18652902
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Anyone want to try this?

No! But I've got to give you serious props for not giving up the 5th time that Goldberg set-up collapsed! ; D

-Duck- wrote in post #18652971
You'd be surprised what you can do with a little effort. Don't doubt yourself. Like anything, it just takes a little practice.

Emphasis on "current skill set and patience" haha

Thanks for the inspiration!

navydoc wrote in post #18652983
Nice job and I really like the lighting. Your method reminds me of a video I watched recently where the same technique was used.

Darn, you found me out.

In the past I used a different approach and thought I'd give this method a try. I have to say for some products this "scaffolding" method works nicely (if not a little patience testing) but ultimately I see it in use with a combination of other techniques. Just another tool in the toolbox.

PhotosGuy wrote in post #18652989
No! But I've got to give you serious props for not giving up the 5th time that Goldberg set-up collapsed! ; D

My first attempt (four hours of trial the day before) was trying to utilize thin fishing line. My thought being it was more invisible and easier to edit out (works well in many product shots). The problems I encountered were load weight differences between each layer causing different amounts of sag. Also the "hammock" effect every time I tried to make an adjustment, which caused a chain reaction collapse. While the wire was optically thicker in comparison to fishing line (as spotted by OhLook! from my lack of diligence in editing) it was far more stable, though it did have it's shaky moments.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

-Duck- wrote in post #18653212
The problems I encountered were load weight differences between each layer causing different amounts of sag.

Hmm. Guitar strings under tension? Placing the light stands closer together?