I Need Help
Submitted by Stuart Broz on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 8:31am
As you can see, I am not a particularly skilled food photographer:
The Bison Patty Melt that I made for dinner the other night. It tasted better than it looks in this picture.
This is why I love Flickr - and the tons of talented photographers who release works via the Creative Commons license.
Still, I don't want to rely wholly on others - and I want to be able to contribute pretty pictures of my own to the Commons. In order to be comfortable with this, though, I need to improve my photography skills. I'm currently in the process of compiling a list of food photography resources. Once I've done so, I will go through them and post them here. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions - tips or resources (online, books, or whatever), please send them my way. The better I get, the nicer pictures I can post. We all benefit from that, right?
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Photography tips
When I first started blogging, my pics were pretty bad. I finally figured out a few things that help.
1. Use the manual setting on your camera and turn the flash off. Using the manual setting, you'll be able to adust the F-stop, which will let more light in so you don't need a flash, but still get rich, clear colors.
2. Use a tripod. If you're using the manual setting and a higher F-stop, that means the camera lens will have to stay open longer - so if your hand shakes, the image will be blurry.
3. If your camera has the option, use the "macro" function for close-up shots.
4. Take a bunch of shots from various angles with various light settings. It increases your chances of getting at least 1 good shot! :-)
Hope that helps - I wanted to see the cheesecake with cadbury eggs inside - so you need to get your photography skills up to speed ;-)
Cheesecake photos
I tried to take them. I really did...