Post Your Food Photography

SeattleSpeedster wrote in post #6851011
fresh out of the oven for a get-together....two kinds of chocolate...pound of butter...

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Mmm those look gummy. When I get to a computer I can post a picture of some cupcakes made last week.

Bump ........... for more elbow pasta !
I can't help myself ........ there is something 'soothing' about rinsing the pasta.

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This thread is making me hungry! Too bad it's after 3 in the morning.

first try at this kind of thing. I was baking and thought I'd give it a try.

Choc/Peppermint Biscotti

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Hammer, dmiller, nice.....

Hijacking the thread now as im thirsty!

Margarita anyone?

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How about a little whine wine?

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Here's my share

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here is my set up:

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Hey Marco,

Product photography, especially food is not easy to do and very subjective as to client needs, style etc. But one overriding factor is shape.

The shape of the food, the color and brightness are paramount to effective food photography. Shaping the subjects often requires a very well thought out plan to reduce unwanted reflections, direct the viewers eye toward the sweet spot on the food and create shape. You use light to create all of those.

For example your chutney with the pine nuts. The glass gets lost because there is no direct light falling onto a dark product - on a dark BG. So what you have in essence is a light sucker dead on in the middle of your image. That is the biggest issue what that image. Secondarily you have a huge red box top drawing you eye away from the glass and that box has a spoon running right through the logo on the box. There is no detail to speak of in the greens camera left except for a small amount on top and that is OOF.

So that image for me is a no-go and needs to be reshot and preferably lit with a large source from the front.

In the mixed drink, again you have the top nicely backlit but the sides of the glass have no separation from the BG. It needs reflectors from the sides that do not spill onto the BG to an edge to the lower surfaces of the glass. Also you exposure is way off by at least two stops so that the normal intense red you should see looks like a graduated grey / brown.

In the three glass setup with the hiball the liqued looks dead, no life - nothing that makes me say Gee I wish I had one of those right now. You did use a reflector there - a good start but it needs to surround your subject so that you have even reflections across the gold surface at the rim from one side to the other. And again the exposure is definatly off due to the BG dominating the meter.

It has taken me years to learn how to shoot food and I still am not satisfied so don't get disheartened. It often takes a real good PRO food shooter the better part of a day to get the exact image they and the client want!!

Check out http://www.loumanna.co​m/ one of the very best food shooters. You may want to pick up his book too "Digital Food Photography".

Cheers and keep trying,

Hi Les and thank you for your comments, I appreciate that.

I agree with what you say, i guess I should have leaqrned by now with black i need to compensate........i knew it before and i didnt do it.

well ill blame it on the new camera, i am kind of blown away by its lcd, and it may have fooled me......at first i thought i was doing great.....then later i realiozed.

nevertheless I think I am getting better. I will re do the shoots, and thought of this: at first cut the top of the background as it stick out above the subjects by about 20 centimeter and that may limit my light from behind to much.

then next I think I will try to use a oblong snooted strobe on the front right to shoot the scene from the front with fill at maybe 1/16th.

ill do a reshoot after the whole xmas business is over and i finally get some time off.

Thanks for your comments

Marco

Wow, haven't found this thread until now.

I shoot food sometimes, mainly because I love food. I'd love to get some paid jobs eventually, but in the meanwhile there's alot I need to learn. Currently I don't employ any proper setup - usually just some natural lighting and diffusing a Speedlite. I'm thinking of getting a macro lens - hopefully that will give me more creative freedom.

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My WB is off. =(

So is the "tilt"