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RE: Cookwithus #7 Cookie Jar: Salted Caramel, Chocolate and Peanut Shortbread Cookies
Congratulations for the win and looking forward to more of your recipes and amazing pics. I’ve been meant to ask you about it for a while now but do you use any special camera (by that I mean bone phone) to take your pictures? It would be good to read a blog from you on how your showcase your beautiful pictures to have this high quality. Thank you.
Hi @foodforsoul, thanks so much!I'm very lucky to work for African Film Company as a writer, and received a crash-course in photography from my world-class cinematographer boss last month! He has very kindly lent me a Sony a7s and 45m Canon Macro lens. I've literally only been photographing for a few weeks, so I think it's a testament to his teaching ability rather than my skills! As far as set up, I try to shoot in the mornings when the sun is lovely and diffused through my dining room window- not beaming right in. I generally stand at a 90 degree angle from the window on the left and reflect the light with a sheet of polystyrene on my right. I've slowly been teaching myself to shoot with my phone too, though, and learned that manual mode really makes a difference. There's also an amazing lady named Joanie who has an awesome Youtube channel on food photography https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsM3clfP0vfMFlnf2tde41A and a facebook page of food photographers who share tips and creative criticism, which has really helped improve my pictures (have a look at my earlier posts, some of the shots were really awful!) I know I still need a lot of work on my compositions and depth-of-field though, still learning so much! Thanks for suggesting I write a blog about it, think I'll do just that! Shout if you're ever stuck and I'll ask my boss for tips! :D
Thank you for your in-depth message. I will definitely check out the YouTube channel. I’ve started by using my iPhone but having notice the picture quality of some bloggers I’ve moved on to a Canon 60D and is now trying to improve my skills. Thank you for providing an insight in how you approach your pictures. I think a good picture is worth as much as a thousand words. Will try and learn and improve gradually ;)
Your phone will work great when you're on the move, just change it from auto to manual mode and try to use natural light wherever possible. I find as phones don't have the lens attachments, sticking to 45 degree or 'flat lay' top shots at a 90 degree angle works best for focus. I can't get over how amazing your cake looks, btw! Oh, if you don't want to lug a huge chunk of polyboard around, get a A1 Sheet of white craft cardboard and bend it in half so it stands on its own, works great as a reflector when your shadows are too harsh.
I’ve watched the video with black background yesterday and will try and adapt it soon. Unfortunately I couldn’t do it over the weekend as my little one has come down with a cold and is very needy and clingy at the moment.
Lovely! I'm still struggling with 'Dark' food photography as my mousse cake didn't benefit from the black cloth I used (pictures show every little blemish and wrinkle) . Look forward to seeing how you approach it! Wishing your little a speedy recovery!