Food photographs often are shot with careful plating, selective styling & generous lighting arrangement. However, one can even shoot food photographs with relative ease using absolutely basic resources at disposal.
If one is just beginning in food photography, most often he/she won’t have an array of crockery or extravagant lighting equipment to use. In this case, I recommend shooting the food in the same crockery you’re using to cook them.
The above photograph you see, is a simple example of how one can create beautiful food photographs with limited resources. Here, the light used is window light. The food rests in the cooking pan in which it was cooked. To be honest, I did not even took the cooking pan from the cooking range as we have a window just above the kitchen platform providing beautiful light. I just added a spoon to the pan & took this from an top angle. I slightly controlled the light streaming from window in this case but not to a large degree. Editing was kept to minimal. Isn’t this mouth-watering?
So, get into the kitchen & shoot some beautiful shots with the limited resources you have. Happy Photography Day. 🙂
I get up this morning and find your blog entry in my mailbox. So from across the world I find out that today is Photography Day!! And I wish you a happy one! Woohoo! Who knew?
And it was from the simple joy of learning food photography and posting our food photos that we “met” and you are so right! Sometimes the simplest food photos work with limited resources. Good light, crop in close and make it look delicious! Something I must work on is… using more negative space in my photography. There is always a learning curve.
Now if I only had a very long fork to take a big bite from your pan!
Happy Photography Day!
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And I feel glad that I met you on LFP community. The journey was great as we used to share everyday. How I miss those days. However, its good to see your photo gang’s work over your blog & always special to have your comment here. Thanks a lot. Stay blessed. 🙂
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I had no idea it was world photography day. You just inspired me to put up a food photo on my blog .
I have always loved food photography and totally believe that you can make beautiful photographs with just a camera and natural lighting
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Glad. Happy Photography Day 🙂
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