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Post by katynoelle on May 11, 2012 15:00:50 GMT
Getting closer to an, actual, omelette....a quiche!  #1 edited with a slightly closer crop  #2  #3  It's an asparagus quiche. "preamble": I know how a lot of food photography is modified with different tricks to look more appealing. I could swear, though, that I know that very type of photography and it has always looked unappealing to me. One could argue that they didn't do it well enough but I think that there is a wave of food photography that dares to use real food - beautiful in its own right and wonderfully lit. For example (shared before): www.cannellevanille.com/ I need to learn. Anyway, my mom was telling me (I've heard it often) how she'd seen something about food photography on tv where they used hairspray to make dinner rolls look shiny and it got me thinking about 'greasy' subjects and thought that I'd have a go at these. What do you think? I think that the I flattened out the light, somehow, in #2 and can't quite figure out how to fix it. |
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Post by rasbury on May 11, 2012 16:18:39 GMT
These look good Katy.I like the second image the best.Not to sure about the ins and outs of food photography,but I would think that #1 would be a better image if the whole quiche was in focus.As far as tricks go,I had heard awhile back that they would use mashed potatoes to simulate ice cream as it would not melt under the lights.
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Post by Stevewebb on May 11, 2012 16:38:39 GMT
I'm glad its dinner time here Katy 'cos that has made me real hungry My roast chicken is smelling better by the minute. I say "my" roast chicken but it is being lovingly prepared by the current Mrs Webb while I have been mowing the grass. What a perfect relationship ;D ;D ;D I like number 1 with the cooling rack in view and I think the dof is just perfect. I think you could lose a smidge off the top though and take the dish right to the edge of the frame. 2 and 3 look good but I always think that food photos are much better from a lower point of view. I think I said that before though. Great work though as usual (both the cooking and the photos  |
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Post by katynoelle on May 11, 2012 17:31:28 GMT
These look good Katy.I like the second image the best.Not to sure about the ins and outs of food photography,but I would think that #1 would be a better image if the whole quiche was in focus.As far as tricks go,I had heard awhile back that they would use mashed potatoes to simulate ice cream as it would not melt under the lights. I remember a series of ads for beef, a few years back that just looked disgusting....then, I heard about the black shoe polish and other tricks like that....I'm pretty sure... I don't think that the whole quiche should be in focus - hinted suggestion and low dof being a lovely thing in food photography and too much texture seems kind of igh - but I think that you're right. I went at a lower angle so that the quiche was more elliptical and I put the dof a tad higher but I think that it should have been a smidgeon higher, perhaps. Thanks, Ron! |
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Post by katynoelle on May 11, 2012 17:56:50 GMT
I'm glad its dinner time here Katy 'cos that has made me real hungry My roast chicken is smelling better by the minute. I say "my" roast chicken but it is being lovingly prepared by the current Mrs Webb while I have been mowing the grass. What a perfect relationship ;D ;D ;D You keep saying that. What. Do you have a few wives on a rotating basis?  You know, I tried that - actually, I tried several crops - but, then, it seemed a little claustrophobic - I'll go at it again. Yup! You did say that. and, my sister and I had a think tank about that, too. Her insight was that straight on circles - or, even, bullseyes (subjects with radiating, concentric lines - like flowers.  ) - are boring compositions. So, if I go at a slant, it turns it into an ellipse. However, in my queue of images, I skipped from the angle of the first one, here, which is a titch too high, to one that I don't want to use because it's just too low. When it was too low, the lovely crust, etc. disappeared. Rats! So, I like bird's eye view photography but my sister's and my observation is that, if there are circles in the composition, the lines are either broken up with a fork or something like that or there are a line of circles leading from one to the other or something like that. Like this: annawilliamsphotography.com/#/PORTFOLIO/FOOD%20I/19/ it's a circle from above but there isn't a bullseye within the circle and, then, see how the lines are broken up by the edge of the paper? or this: annawilliamsphotography.com/#/PORTFOLIO/FOOD%20III/29/ Do you see how the bowls lead one to the other? and the circles are broken up by the edge of the frame? The utensils point us - zing us - back around within the frame and the napkins are really huge directional arrows. Well. It's all a theory, anyway.  |
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Post by katynoelle on May 11, 2012 17:59:28 GMT
You know, this would have been nice with some fresh asparagus stalks in the picture, somewhere. |
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Post by jjbacoomba on May 12, 2012 0:13:24 GMT
Oh GOOD GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! Party at Katy's!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful shots Katy!
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Post by Leslie on May 12, 2012 0:56:03 GMT
great series! I'm hungry now! YUMMY! |
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Post by DonS on May 12, 2012 11:13:42 GMT
HHmmmm Barry, I think you have to stop Katy posting food pictures.... She's going to make me gaining more weight... Cause every time I see her pictures it makes me hungry again.....  |
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Post by katynoelle on May 15, 2012 3:04:29 GMT
Oh, you guys.... ;D Alright, so.... I adjusted the originals because, since I've calibrated (hopefully) my monitor, they look ridiculously yellow/red/orange! Lightroom adjusted them and, then, reuploaded them but they have a different name - can you still see images in the original post? edit: and, now, somehow, the light seems really flat in them there was a quality - especially in #3 - that I liked but can't find again. So, just moving on....  |
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Post by The Wirefox on May 15, 2012 5:53:10 GMT
Someone has eaten them all!  |
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Post by katynoelle on May 15, 2012 13:54:49 GMT
Oooooooh....  I'll fix them later. |
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