Food Photography

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I have been exploring new areas of photography in recent days, food photography being one of them. I have kept away from studio and indoor photography for many years and never thought it would be something I would like to try. Interacting with an established photographer in the last few weeks, I decided to work with him in some of the indoor assignments, and was pleasantly surprised to realize that I enjoy photographing indoors as much as I would outdoor. There is plenty of challengers involved, which include the choice of lights, lighting angles and understanding how final results really should be for each genre of photography.

Last week, I have been doing some food photography where the prime challenges are to bring alive the textures on the food, make it look tempting, and juicy where applicable. The first few shoots were not surprisingly disaster. But some on site guidance from the person I work with, and tips from Michal Ray's website have been helping me get better by the day. Here is one of the images I shot yesterday. Does it bring out the textures on the food well? Does the arrangement successfully show the depth and create the third dimension or appears like flat two dimensional object? Does it tempt you to pick it up for desserts or at least make you curious to figure what is this and where can it be procured from? Or is it just a boring image to let go? Do tell me what you think.