Getting Delicious Food Photos & Highlights From the Last Social Shoot!
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Featured Class
Sports Photography
The ratio for great sports images is: 1 part camera equipment, 3 parts photographer knowledge / anticipation.
Instructor Walt Kuhn is a professional sports photographer with years of experience shooting for the Indy 500 and Brickyard races, as well as multiple basketball, football, baseball and soccer organizations.
Learn on-location in a workshop focused on how to improve your sports photos with equipment you already own. Topics include: lighting, shutter speeds, sport-specific anticipation and of course, hands-on practice!
- Date: Saturday August 8th
- Time: 10am – 1pm
- Location: Carmel, IN
Tip of the Week: Do You Want Fries With That?
Food photography is one of the most difficult types of photography. By looking at a good food image, viewers easily visualize how the food would taste; they taste with their eyes. Due to the short amount of working time before the food is no longer visually appealing, everything must be set-up beforehand to maximize the shooting time.
- DSLR mounted on a tripod and pointing down at about a 45 degree angle to the food.
- DSLR set to Aperture Priority (Av).
- Aperture set to f4.
- Shutter release set to Self-timer
- White balance set to match the light (Daylight, Cloudy or Incandescent).
- You can also experiment using some props, such as a tablecloth, and silverware. With a small depth-of-field, the viewer’s eyes will go to the food which is in focus and will not be distracted by the blurred background.
With props already in place, your DSLR mounted on a tripod and your camera set to the bullets above, make up a simple dish.
A garden salad made out of lettuce, radishes, celery and onions topped with either a cut-up grilled chicken breast or canned tuna works well because of its long working time.
Assignment:
Photographing the salad from different angles and viewpoints using natural light or ceiling lights. If the natural light is strong and highly directional, diffuse it with a piece of white sheer material, such as a curtain or a piece of rip-stop nylon.
By Ron Kness
This is this weeks Group Assignment on Flickr!
These tips and more can be learned in any Indy Photo Coach class or lesson.
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