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Welcome to the liveblog of the BlogHer Food '10 panel "Visuals: Food Photography for Food Bloggers: How to capture your best photo in restaurants and your home kitchens."
Here's the description:
Photographing food in your home kitchen or restaurants can be challenging, but it's not impossible to capture great shots. With a few simple photography principles, tips on lighting and efficient techniques on making the most of your surroundings, you can create mouth watering photographs in your kitchen or restaurant environment. Diane Cu and Todd Porter, the writers and photographers behind White on Rice Couple, are back to help you make the most of a restaurant setting or turn your home kitchen into a "mini-studio", using simple photographic guidelines to capture your best shot, to tell your food story (and still have a warm meal).
Your liveblogger is Minnie. Check back during the panel (10:00am - 11:15am on October 8) for the liveblog!
Can't make it to BlogHer Food? Get the virtual conference pass and don't miss a thing!
I have contacted Diane and Todd for the Power point that illustrates the clock lighting principle.
food photography for food bloggers how to capture your best photo in restaurants and in home kitchens!
diane cu and todd porter from white on rice - http://whiteonricecouple.com/
are professional photographers
D started photographing people, events, decde to work harder and started a studio decided she wanted to do this for the next 10 years.
Todd was in rest business for 15 yrs. both love food, huge part of their lives. vietnmese mother in law, T grew up on a ranch?
but with a hamburger helper mom, wanted to make better food for himself. almost opened own restaurant but that becomes all consuming and they didnt want that to be their whole lives.
they liked working together vacations were impossible because their schedules never coinsided.
stated a blog, white on rice -porn SEO!
really melding their skills
2 cookbooks due out next year!
not about secrets, they are self taught and feel like people in the past were holding back info and they don't do that. they want to help people improve their photogrpah.
new challenges for every kind of photography. food photography has different rules.
difference between talent and skill. talent, god given, skill means hard work! dont give up, trial and error will help you imporve.
people have very busy lives. parents cooking have to juggle cooking and kids, etc
- work flow and system for home cooking and photogrpahy. some simple concepts to make it easier to wrangle everything at once.
thought process:
both creative and technical
never randomly take a shot. try to be both creative and technical, read your manual
luck shot? no. s
access your environment
lookat your room, what will you shoot? what feel do you want, what is available.
before you even pick up your camera. look at cocktail you want ot shoot. where am i? where is my light source, what direction is it coming from?
decide on mood, feel, and story of your photos
you can have total control on mood and story of your photograph. dont be the person who trys for the lucky shot. set goals!
choose your gear.
least important of your conciderations at this point. you dont have to spend the money. a 1000 camera can take a shitty shot and a 100$ camera can take a great shot. (<-- this is so true. try to not stress about your crappy camera!)
Natural light work flow,
color is nuetral
comp of light
decide the mood and style and fell and story of the photo with light
bright airy and fresh? moody and sexy? warm and dark. use what you ahve
amount and direction
quality of light
too little
too much
move subject or your self.
be dynamic! move around!
photography is about capturing light, how light is falling on your subject. one thing can be shot a million ways in the same environment just by changing light and positions.
think of light as a clock, light comes in different directions.
use that to get the shot you want.
subject in the middle
(get power point from them!)
12oclock backlight - subject in middle and light source behind it.
look at shadows to get idea of where light is coming from.
geat for catching shimmer and glare from liquids in glass.
( think of this as the star trek girly close up)
9oclock side light - photographer is in 6 oclock position -this gives you a completely different picture
light is still a bit behind, wrapping around
4oclock position -photographer at 6oclcock -catching some nice cshowdows, shadow are not your enemy!
6oclcok flat light - no shadows, shooting form same angle as light source. no dimension to this subject. flat. compared
