Soup Photography

Yes, I'm a little strange... But it's the little things in life that make you happy...

I've photographed soup should many times before, and to tell you the truth, it's not all that tough. You just want to light from behind and try not to add too much fill light. Watch the glare and use an overhead box for downward fill. No big deal... btw - there were no models in the final shot.

The tough part about this shot was the lighting I had to do for the damn pot! I thought about trying to take a picture of the lighting setup, but I didn't have a wide enough lens for my Nikon...

I used six sheets of 4x8' foamcore around the set. The entire set area was aroung 18' x 18'. It was huge! Chrome is a tough thing to shoot and it's something that is very subjective. Luckily for me, this was a brushed chrome, or the retouchers would of made more on this project than I did... So that's food photography for you... Take care until later!

Food photography lighting setup

I'm testing out uploading posts from my iPhone, so I can upload stuff from vacation.

Here are three samples of lighting setups from my last pizza shoot. This might give you some clues as to how it was done.

It looks like the photos show up smaller then normal, maybe I can change that in the future...

As far as the pizza photography lighting goes... You can see that it's much more complicated than most people think. I've made a small breakthrough with this last shoot. With my food photography lighting, I flagged off the main light from the pizza so I could see what the mirrors were doing. I've often thought about this but never took the time to do it. On this shoot, I did it and I really like the results. With all the lights on, it's hard to see what each mirror is doing, but when the subject off from the main light, and the light still sees the mirrors, I can see much better, what the mirrors are actually doing. I was very happy with the results of this shoot.

Now that I have the iphone capable of uploading images (remotely), I'll probably make a lot more posts. (hopefully ;+)








-- Post From My iPhone

What they don't teach in Photography school...

I've been a busy little bee, writing away, but it just hasn't been here... :+) Here are a couple of posts from my other web page that you might find interesting... They're more additions to "what they don't teach in photography school". It's more basic photography / professional photography career information. Hey! Anyone out there on facebook? I just rediscovered it after a few years. Back then, I thought it was only for kids, but now, I'm really enjoying it. If you haven't give it a try.

Well. I have to pack now for a two-day location job in Ohio. I'll post some pictures while I'm gone. In the mean time, check out the link above.

Ta-ta...