Pictures of amazing food.. Is this something interesting?

Question

http://www.morecute.com/?channel=30

If so add your own pictures

Answer 1

It may not be something of interest to many but it can pay well once you learn the tricks of the trade! BELIEVE me, there's more to it than meets the eye, and it pays VERY well, too. It's not something that I do well, so I never took the challenge.

Answer 2

Food photography is a great field to get into. Can I suggest that your photo's need a bit of staging and perhaps try a few different lighting filters...and pick a single source of light and work with that a bit. ie: back lighting, side lighting, upper right etc. Make sure your background is simple so as to make your dish pop. The sunday on the right looks more appetizing but the background is too busy. Take a look at some of the photo's in "Victoria" magazine. Their photographer is fabulous with close-ups and lighting techniques.

Answer 3

Food is one of the hardest things to shoot.

Commercially, it is shot with a large format camera (4x5 or larger), which is important because you can correct perspective with these cameras (a pc lens is pretty worthless here.)

As some of the responders indicated, you need styling help and better lighting. First styling. Food stylists get paid more than photographers, as they have the harder job. Also, u use one plate of food for lighting, polaroids, set-up and when you're ready, you shoot the "hero" plate.

Lighting: Food is lit from one side from the back, with bounce cards (big white cards) placed in front to fill the shadows. The coconut thing looks okay as food, but it is underexposed and needs front fill. The ice cream needs fill, but more than that it needs to be in front of a neutral background. Food should always be shot in front of white or neutral backgrounds, as color clash is a real problem with food. The ice cream also would benefit from a large format camera, as dead on it just looks dead.

If you are interested in getting into food photography, you need to take some courses in large format photography, lighting and styling. It is one heck of a lot of work. Also, you have too much depth of field in the pictures. Use an aperture of ƒ4 or ƒ5.6 - get the background out of focus-anything else gives to much detail in the background.

Look at pictures in gourmet magazine, food and wine to see what the industry is doing right now to get ideas.

Now, if you can't or don't want to go the the extreme effort a large format camera requires- you can shoot with a small one, but for goodness sake, get a remote flash, some fill cards and put the food on a seamless background (Seamless paper can be bought at the photo store.) You might also find that makeup mirrors can bounce light where you need it.

There are some great books out there on food photography and styling, also available at your local photo supply store or online at bhphotovideo.com

good luck.

Answer 4

Not really, looks like pictures of ice cream they put on restaurant menus. You order because it looks scrummy, but when it arrives it's a big letdown.

Answer 5

Doesn't look interesting to me, sorry.