Whoop whoop! It's nearly Christmas! Food photography is a part of still life photography which is widely used for commercial photography. This specific type of photography you will easily see all over Instagram, Pinterest and virtually everywhere. From magazines to advertisements, food photography is essentially making food look as appealing as you can to almost pose a picture perfect image. This has its downfalls with fast food companies exaggerating how big/attractive a food item is. For my next shoot we were introduced to food photography and what a perfect time it was to take photos of food when it is coming up to Christmas. So off to Pinterest I went to scan the whole of the site for some images which I like for my own influence for my images that I will take. A link for my Pinterest board is here. I followed all health and safety practices and this is therefore shown within my health and safety risk assessment.
Below is the contact sheet for the shoot on the day that I took the photos. Now it was editing time, I edited some of the scratches in certain places just to ensure that the image looked as good as possible. ConclusionFor this shoot, I was not happy with how it turned out at all. I just think I could have come up with a better composition to allow the photo to really shine. I don't feel like the photos made the food look appealing to a viewer. I feel like the image isn't very tasteful. One thing that I did like was that I problem solved when taking the photo. I noticed that on the left hand side the image was pretty dark creating shadows which did not look good. To counteract that I added a reflector to reflect the light to lessen the shadows which made the photo appear a bit better than I originally had thought. I think that food photography is not a type of photography that I like. I think that I am not very good at it therefore this means that I won't be re-doing it unless I need to for a job or studies in the future. However, if I had to re-do this in the future, I would pick a completely different food. I would most likely pick a cake or a drink or something along that theme as these to my own eye appear more interesting and can lead a viewers eye to different aspects of the food in a more flowy manner.
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