One more...then I eat!

This technique is easy...more or less.  Lit from above with a soft box, two white cards, one camera left one camera right and burning news paper on the bottom.  I don't even read the paper anymore anyway, to much bad news so I burn it instead.  Might as well get something out of it!


One more, the fire (effect) is done using only lights. Orange gel on background, red from under.

Let there be fire

Peppers lit with flash and continuous tungsten light (tungsten from behind for a warmer feel) one overhead softbox and flash with red gel in background.  When I figure out how to make flames, real or in photoshop, I'll add them in.

Simply grapes.  Shot with a shallow depth of field.  Oh where to focus?

Well here we go again with cupcakes.  Knowing where to focus on close up shots, which about 90% fo food photography is, is a bit of a game of hit and miss.  I always remember the 1/3rd in front 2/3rds behind rule but it depends on what lens your using and even more important, what f stop your set at.

I know the style of the day is really shallow depth of field which if done right looks great. I'm finding that a smaller f stop gives me a better chance of hitting the right zone while giving me somewhat of a nice shallow depth of focus.

Thanks to Erin for making some really amazing cupcakes which tasted as good as they look.  A true art form in and of itself!

I'm back!  I'm finding that the hardest thing in shooting food is making it look good in the first place. As I said before I'm in no way a food style expert, far from it. As a matter of fact I spent far more time messing with pasta than light placement. I'm spending a lot of time looking at real food photography and trying to figure out how they did it.  Anyway heres todays effort, hope you like it!

Cheers!