Photography Tips:

1. Speed: Shoot quickly, especially when dealing with heat.

2. Capture: Shoot often, and capture the mess…cooking is messing.

3. Lighting: Embrace the lighting, natural light shows off the ingredients.

4. Macro: Stunning close-ups.

 

5. Backgrounds: Use neutral lighting to show off the texture.

 

6. Story: Set the scene to tell a story

7. Creative: Take action shots with slow shutter speeds.

 

8. Color: Use colorful ingredients and white plates.

 

9. Angle: Choose to shoot at an interesting angle – like from inside a pot

 

10. View: Adopt the point of view for the character

 

 

Food Photographer: Beatrice Peltre

Examples:

 

 

 

 

Beatrice enjoys taking pictures of homegrown and natural foods. She came out with a cook book in 2011. She takes pictures for things like Trader Joe’s and Chronicle Books. I like her pictures because it shows the food in a sort of just ripe, ready to go, natural element, before being incorporated into your meals. Then she shows the food rotting or mixed with other foods.

 

Playing with Your Food:

 

        

 

                

 

My Ideas: 

For my project I want to do a picture of a green banana compared to a bruised banana. Then I also would like to have a playing with your food picture like making smiley faces with my food.