Food Foto Friday
Friday, April 29, 2011 at 4:29AM 
This will be a short post as it's Friday and my attention span is dwindling....BUT! I wanted to start a little series called "Food Foto Friday" wherein I show you my latest experiments in food photography.
Note: I am NOT a professional photographer! I'm learning. But I'm hoping that my learning experiences will help you. Or at least interest you. You can let me know.
First up: Experiments in Natural Light with Lana Bars.
I first posted about Lana Energy Bars here. And recently I made about 18 more batches so that I could bring them to practice with me and share them with my team. I used this opportunity to take some photos and practice what I learned at the House of Brinson Food Photography workshop.
What I learned at House of Brinson: You can take awesome photos with just natural light. Even if there isn't that much of it.
What I learned in my apartment: This is true.
Consider the below comparison image:
In the image on the left, I turned on the fancy-pants light with umbrella diffuser thingie I bought at Adorama. Holy red overtones, Batman! That seriously looks terrible. Or at least requires some serious Photoshop color correcting. Which I don't feel like doing, people.
On the right-hand image, I turned off all the lights in my apartment. I mean ALL of them. And put this tray on the floor. Not extremely close to the window. The window is on the left side and really doesn't let in all that much light to begin with. But look at the improvement. NO PHOTOSHOP! None, I promise.
Also, House of Brinson taught me to love my tripod, which I now do. I attached my camera and pointed it to the floor – at the tray of bars. No shaking – which is great because I had to slow the shutter speed WAY down to let in enough light.
So there you have it. Natural light is better. The tripod is my friend, and there are energy bars for all (literally):
Reader Comments (6)
gotta love that natural light! great post! happy friday!!
Natural light (open shade) + white cards and some black ones too, = :)
Natural light for sure. Good job. Love the added graphics! I want the bars too.
Love the graphics on the parchment paper. So right about natural light and a tripod. Made such a difference even with my non-SLR. Any decent digital camera can take some pretty great snaps if you have those two things.
VERY NICE! So glad to see you trying new things! Looks great and we love the added graphic. :)
Yum! The bars look great and I particularly love the photo at the top with the cool font treatment. The advertising nerd in me has a fond appreciation for that kinda stuff. :)