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How about a thread specifically for food photography? Feel free to post shots you've taken of food in all its forms. A couple to start off: Herbs and Spices  IMG_7073.jpg by jmorris4371, on Flickr And a Crumb Shot  Baguette by jmorris4371, on Flickr Phummus fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Oct 31, 2013 |
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Oct 28, 2013 00:46
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I'll do a before and after. I always have my camera set to shoot 'cloudy' for the white balance. I like the color temp it provides for outdoor shots, and really with as easy as it is to change the white balance after-the fact, its not worth it to change it on my camera every time my lighting changes. So here's the shot out of the camera:  I adjusted the white balance to reflect the actual lighting I was shooting in, and I cropped out a lot of the background/foreground stuff that I found to be pretty distracting. I did a little bit of noise reduction, as I was shooting at a fairly high ISO, and also enabled the lens profile correction in lightroom to come up with this:  EDIT: I also boosted the exposure a bit. Phummus fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Oct 28, 2013 |
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Oct 28, 2013 14:47
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LAchristus posted:I work with food photography on a daily basis - I am currently apprenticing/educating myself to become a photographer - and I focus on food/lifestyle photography. I'd love to try and answer some questions or give tips, ask away. The simple question: What would you do to improve the photos in my original post?
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Oct 31, 2013 20:59
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LAchristus posted:The image link on the first image appears to be broken. So can only comment on the bread. Fixed LAchristus posted:First of all, think about the light. It appears this is shot in your kitchen without any thought on light? The light is yellow and really flat, it doesn't do anything to tell that the bread is crisp like a proper baguette. You need some contrast in the light to accent the feel of the bread. Yeah, it was shot in my dining room under the overhead light. I did try to correct for the yellowness in white balance. LAchristus posted:Secondly, you say it is a crumb shot, but in this image there is 5% crumb, and 95% bread interior, and the clean cut makes it even harder to identity that this bread has a crisp surface. Nice. Thanks for the tips!
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Oct 31, 2013 21:20
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In the spirit of reciprocal education, in the world of baked goods, the 'crumb' of an end product is the term used to reference the internal structure. For instance, the crumb of my baguette above has a fairly open texture, indicating that it was a high hydration application. The yellow color that you noted, while exacerbated by my tungsten lighting is also partly due to the fact that I used unbleached flour.
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Nov 1, 2013 14:08
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mediaphage posted:I will say my number one pet peeve in food photography (aside from the general Glamour Shots nature of current trends) is the tendency toward razor-thin depth of field. In everything. Can't even see the food. My baguette is certainly guilty of this. The herbs and spices not so much.
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Nov 1, 2013 15:10
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