Past couple days have been an insane rush of large format banners and food shots all over the place. I feel like a one man full service design agency, responding to requests from everyone in the company. Overseas outlets, local outlets, website change requests, menu change requests, photo shoot requests~ Full day shoots 3 days in a row, and I haven’t charged my batteries yet. Quite amazed they can last this long.
Shot wise, can some one teach me how to shoot white vanilla ice-cream on a white plate without under or over exposing the thing? All my dessert shots look like crap. I read somewhere you have to use the light to shine it across to reveal the white ice-cream texture with shadows. But the ones I’m shooting has no textures, they’re like the smooth gelato kind? Then how? Stumped.
Anyways, good thing about doing the shoots is we get to try the food after! :D
Shoot directional light to get the textures out. Think of the ice-cream like someone’s face. You light from an angle all the pimples and pores can see. You light frontal, the blemishes are not so apparent. Depending on how you light, you might not even need to fill, since the white plate and ice-cream can reflect light all over.
Mmm if that’s the case, I need to DIY some sort of grid to put on my flash. Shall go experiment. Thank for the tip :D