This weekend I shot pictures of food. Originally, I was going to do the assignment, macro, with close up shots of nature, but the weather was very gloomy with a lot of clouds and rain, so the lighting was too hard to deal with. I decided I could control the lighting a little better indoors, controlling beyond the exposure triangle settings. One indoor photo assigment I found intriguing was food. Food has many different colors, textures, and sometimes patterns. When taking pictures of food I got to be a little more creative then you do with nature, which was really fun! Food photography is in ads, on billboards, and basically everywhere you look. Food companies are trying to get you to buy their product, and one key component of making a person want to buy it, is to make the food it look appetizing. This is what I focused on when shooting. I learned that when playing around with the background and lighting, the photo looks much better when you isolate the food from the rest of the photo. I found that focusing the light on the food, having a dark background (navy blue blanket), and a little bit of editing could accomplish this. Another thing I learned in this project was that having the whole food in focus (small size aperature) was important because the audience will lose interest if only one particular spot of the food was in focus. When I was shooting the ice cream, I learned that I need to work with urgency because believe it or not, ice cream does melt even when you are taking photos of it! It was pretty cool in the end to see my photos of the ice cream in a sequence because it showed the ice cream melting over time. Aperature: f/stop 14
Shutter Speed: 3.2 seconds (I used a tripod) ISO: 100 In my best photo, (above) I brightened up the shadows so you could see that the ice cream was on a plate and not floating in mid-air. Also, I made the blacks more black, so you could not tell that the background was a blanket. Finally, I added clarity so the raspberry's details were more in focus.
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