It’s no secret that I love food and am trying to improve at my photography skills. My friend Jessica kindly has offered to help me out on the photography front. We met at Moxie a few weeks ago to have lunch and to practice taking pictures of food. The lunch was good, the company was great and actually my photos didn’t come out half bad.
I started with the bake potato soup:
Main course was a grilled cheese with bacon:
Dessert was chocolate cake with strawberry butter cream icing:
And after:
I learned about the Macro setting on my camera which I had used before, but had no idea what it was called or its purpose. You can see the entire set of my photos here.
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These are FAB!!! So glad you got some good shots that day. Can’t wait for our next “lesson” … He he. ;-)
Food photography is so tricky, but it looks like you did a great job on your first outing! Want to see some beautiful stuff from some pros, along with tips? Check out any (and all) of these blogs. They were all at BlogHer Food and lectured on the photo track: http://www.mattbites.com, http://www.mytartelette.com/, and http://www.whiteonricecouple.com/. I’m thinking of going to BlogHer Food ’10 just for photo lessons. Want to join me?
Wait – there’s one more: http://blog.ruhlman.com/food-photography
Looking forward to seeing many more great food pics!
Congratulations on starting your adventures in food photography. One thing that I have learned/learnt is that food photography can be heck of a challenging thing. Its not just photography that you have to worry about. There is art direction, food styling getting the freshest veggies… But with practice, I have found that mine has improved.
Best of luck with your adventures.
Neel
Very nice food styling :)
Nice shots! Now you just need to add the “tricks” — blocks in the soup to bring the good stuff to the top, the dish detergent to coat the meats, shaving cream frosting…I actually have done some food shoots and it’s sad, but the “real” stuff just isn’t at “pretty” or durable under lights as the plates that are set up just for pictures. It’s funny, though, if an unknowing intern tries to eat the food when the shoot is done ;-)…