It's not a very complicated setting behind the shoot, as you can see. Table, black cloth, and 2 lights! Simple! The cloth background I found a $6, 2x3m piece that worked very well. I'm able to flatten it out or gently create folds for texture. I told the lady I...
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MONTHS of shooting food, thinking why the hell it doesn't quite look correct. Played with the lights, played with the angles, played with color correction, but none of it really made it look like those in the magazines. Just today we had another long shoot, 25 dishes in a row, over...
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I think this is becoming a food blog. lol. Brought in the recently purchased Glidetrack to do some videos of the dishes. Needed to collect more stock footage for video works. The silly thing doesn't work very well. It's not as stable as advertised, and you have to keep lubricating...
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Did a recent menu shoot for another client, thinking that the same setup I've been using will work, but it doesn't actually. I struggled quite a bit on this one. The menu was more westernized, and majority of the dishes were flat and had very little detail. Then there were...
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Feedback from the last few shoots was that I wasn't shooting macro enough. That one I can fix. But the lighting I can't fix. If you look this photo here, and notice the super soft cup and bowl shadows on the mat? I can't achieve that with my current lighting...
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