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Lol... Just taking a break from shooting my Pro chocolate shots and read this. Just finished building my white foam core box. I left the top open and just cover it with my light, white muslin backdrop.
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Just to confirm, it can be a salad or a dessert? I'm more of a dessert guy than a salad guy, lol.
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it is to be a salad recipe. It's not as hard as you think. We had some really creative ones last year.
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Cool. I gave up trying last year, never getting anything worth posting. This will be a good measure of what I have learned since then.
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Chris Fischer Photography
Yep... salad or dessert. Whatever floats your boat!
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Mmmmmmmm knickerbockerglory......
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After all the chocolate, I need to increase my salad intake!
This is also a great reason to blog and post the salad recipes people have been bugging me for!
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man we *just* made brownies! ;D [yes, I had to get more chocolate fix!] Hrm..... I'm going to have to think on this one a bit.
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OK, now to try and figure out what the heck I'm going to do for this. I've made lasagna and Greek rice prep shots recently, because I just had a feeling this was coming, and I wanted the practice. Food styling is still a stretch for me.
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Soooo by salads...can we include pasta, potatoe and chicken "salads"?
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it can be any kind of salad
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I did a couple of different shots on this one; one "studio look" where the background is more white [well... nearing.... some shade of white], and one in my own style. Three guesses which I like more! I also put together a dyp with the finished product before consumption just for giggles.
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Great job Em! I have never really understood what Waldorf salad is or know anyone who eats it but you make it look wonderful. I might try it if someone made it as beautiful as this
I love the middle one with the old painted wood background.
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Am with ^ really like the red onion especially in the middle one.. is it lit naturally?
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Thanks guys! This is mostly natural light, though I bounced a flash off of the ceiling / porch roof to soften the shadows and help out the highlights.
Virginia - you gotta try it! It's delish! The ingredients seem like they'd be weird together, but it's so so good.
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tried a "salad slice" image with space added for the recipe....
I have another shot I took after trying to get an 8x10.5 shot with shallower DoF... may revisit this (another thought I had was OOF image with in focus elements to highlight the ingredients - dont know what the editor would say about such a manipulated shot tho.....
but went back to my original thoughts, this time played with the main element at the front - so that the "TOMATO" part of the salad, and then placed the rest of the ingredients "watching" the "star" from the background...
this gives
 
but then I thought ok, we know there is tomato in a tomato salad so what happens if that is yes, big, at the front, but out of focus - through the focal point on the other ingredients....
and this is my favourite (could do with the garlic not being so blown but i find there is a "story" to the composition (in my addled brain anyway).....
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Tuna poke. Pretty yummy after the shoot. It is a travel day for me so I will miss the Vokle broadcast. i look forward to the recordings. Thank U Don!
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I wanted to do this in the style of Dorling Kindersley and shoot the ingredients directly from above. However, I knew there was no way I could get my camera up high enough. So I shot each of the ingredients separately and then imported each picture into Photoshop to create a composite.
The lighting for each ingredient was the same. Flash to subject right shot through a large diffuser. Fill card behind each ingredient and to the left of each ingredient.
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Nice shot David really clean
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Shot with window light, side reflectors and one Speedlight bouncing off a reflector overhead.
A couple more shots:
Lobster Salad
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 lemon, juiced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 stalk finely chopped celery
1 finely chopped shallot
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh dill
1 tablespoon finely chopped chives
3 lobster tails cooked (about 1 pound lobster meat), chopped
Lemon slices, for garnish
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Our favorite green salad. Large sofbox directly overhead. Horizontal stripboxes on both sides. The one on the right was 1-stop down from the overhead light, and the one of the left was down yet another 1-stop from the one on the right. The tall wooden item is our favorite pepper grinder.
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Help me understand full bleed. From what I found, it means that a design element should run out of the frame on all four boarders. Do I have that right? Thanks much.
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On White? Oops. Eh, I shot "on white" last year. Besides, me and the AD have a differing opinion. And if Em can break the rules, so can I :)
Mom's Tuna Salad:
10oz tuna "in water", dolphin safe
1/4 cup finely chopped onions
1/4 cup finely chopped celery
1/2 cup light mayonnaise
Increase or decrease mayo to suit.
Serves 4-6.
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Lobster? I wanna go to Irene's house!
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Mmm... Just in time for Oscar night!
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You guys are blowing my mind. Have been consumed by the day job lately and being creative is tough, I love the submissions so far
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I usually go with the "break and bake" ready-made dough when I make cookies, but I didn't think that would go over well for the assignment, so here is the "from scratch" version.
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eggroll skins, chicken breast, sesame "doily"
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Those are great ideas vintagedesdignsmith. I would also try putting the salt on top of one of the leaves, or on a colored napkin that highlights the sparkles in the salt.
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I tried taking the same concept as David as I had limited space..and created a collage of several images. First attempt doing anything like this so I'm pretty nervous.
I'm a natural light gal and use extra lights to aid...it's raining and late in Tally so here is the ghetto-rigged set-up I came up with. Totally not as high class as some people here, but at least I tried this week! :)
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That looks a lot like my set up Shelly and I'm rather proud of my white duct taped foam core 3 sided box!
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Very simple carrot salad with hard boiled eggs
recipes.russiancuisine.us/2007/02/carrot-garlic-salad.html
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carrot salad with hardboiled eggs? I have never heard of such a combination...I see garlic so recipe please and do you serve it with something else or on something?
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Vintage Design, Thanks for the vote of confidence. Good to hear others are coming up with the same hi-tech set-ups! I got more use out of my cutting board and utensils last night than I do in a month!
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I must say, I love it when people post their set-ups. Learn A LOT from those. Thanks to those who have.
So how should someone shoot and/or crop an image for a full bleed?
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I figured I would jump off the dicving board and finally try...figure that's the only way I can learn what to do better!
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Greg's setup photo makes me want to go to the nearest big box hardware store and buy a bag full of those clamps.
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I still need to get some of those, too. Life would be so much easier!
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Is it just me or does this years group seem a little ahead of the curve??
Great stuff everyone.
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Yes! I have been thinking that, too.
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@Nick - some are... some of us are just struggling... but learning all the time......
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When is the due date for this one? Sorry I've been flat out the last two weeks but want to get back into it but not sure now which week you are up to?
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This one is due next week.
project52.org/assignment-eight-recipe-and-ingredients-for...
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Thanks @Vintage, I thought for a second I missed this!
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Beautiful work. Yes Nick, I think they are way ahead of the curve this year.
I hope to submit one for this week
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Greek Endive Salad:
1 firm endive
1 bunch scallions
1/2 lb. feta, crumbled
12 Greek black olives (oil cured)
Lighting: 580EX in gamilight softbox back and left; white foamcore front. Shot on homemade light table (430 EX inside a cardboard box with a cheap shower curtain and a piece of glass on top)
Setup shot:
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Version 1:
Version 2 with changes:
-shallower depth of field
-removed pepper at bottom of frame
-bolded recipe text
-inserted faux Magazine Title Header
Set Up:
Foam Core Light Box
Home Depot Lamp Holders with daylight balanced fluroscent bulbs.
Aluminum foil reflector inside light box on camera right
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These posts are all seriously incredible. I mean, really.
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So this assignment I put together what the client requested and then two alternatives to give options............ (thanks to my grip MacFilipe and well saved recovery from a formatted SD card!)
Mango & Avocado Salad,
1 cup of lettuce leaves
1/2 Red onion
1 Red chilli
1 Mango
1 Avocado
Freshly ground pepper
1 lemon juice
dash of olive oil
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Not an entry per se, but here's a BTS shot for photo's above:
As you can see, there fill light coming from the window (facing east, so the sun is going down on the opposite side of the building).
Key light was an SB-28 at half power through a Westcott shoot-through coming in from camera left and behind (it was dropped down to table level in the final shots for extra texture), and there's two reflectors: a large-ish foam core sheet hanging from the stands behind the subject (placement was still being tweaked at this stage), and a 5in1 40" reflector to camera right, white side out. For the board shot this was replaced by the black side to add contrast.
Ambient fill was between 2 and 3 stops below key, compensated by all the light being bounced back into the board.
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After 2 attempts at salad (and just about giving up), I re-read the thread and saw dessert was an option. So here's Lemon Poundcake:
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I played with the recipe ingredients and I came up with this.
Thank you Jen for sharing these recipes for the salad and soups that just happen to be great for anyone trying to eat a healthy low calorie filling meal. I changed the recipe so that it has even less sodium and is even healthier.
I think that this one is my favorite.
Greater depth of field.
I had planned to remove my fun shot before the deadline.... sorry wizwow.
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Very standard garden salad.
Lol just realized I need to reshoot for vertical, oops! Ok fixed now.
Figured I better try to crop an exhisting one in case I dont get time to reshoot.
Still struggling with the food shoots. I tried different angles on this one like Don had suggested last time but this one felt best to me. I think for the next one I'm going to try it with the 70-200 lens as well, just to see.
Having a blast shooting though!
Oh and the set up.
I also had a white serving dish as a reflector on the open side but put it away before my wife saw it (hope she doesnt see this)
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First try...
With my wife's help with the recipe I reworked the shot into this....
Speedlite through large softbox camera left. Speedlite through diffuser camera right. White foam core reflectors front & rear.
...Dan
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Strawberry Spinach Salad--had to go back and reshoot cause I forgot the sugar. Dummy! This one uses an AB800 in camera right and reflectors on all other sides.
Dressing:
1 Lemon
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
Salad:
1/4 cup sliced natural almonds, toasted
8 oz strawberries
1/2 medium cucumber
1/4 small red onion
1 pkg baby spinach
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I'm kinda struggling with this one. I guess that's a good thing... it doesn't feel too great but in the end I guess I'll learn something from it...
I don't know how to get a well-lit photo of my ingredients that is close enough without blocking the light. I have two lenses I can use, a 28-75 but I have to be pretty close to use it (i.e. in front of the light). I have a 75-300 kit lens, but I have to be SOOO far away and it won't focus if I'm any closer than 5 feet. So, I could theoretically be further away but realistically, I don't have enough height in my house for that.
On top of it all, I just don't have any original or creative ideas for this. Y'all have really produced some wonderful shots and I feel like I'm just sitting here looking at the screen with my mouth agape.
I'm both inspired and intimidated. :)
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It's been a while since I've taken part in Project 52 - like, 8 months or so. I've been trying to check in when I can. It's pretty cool to see how far the group has come. Everybody's doing such awesome work it's a little intimidating jumping back in. But hopefully, I can find some time to take part a little more often this year.
Anyway, here's my submission for the week:
And here's how I did it:
The white background is a diffuser that I stuck in front of a reflective umbrella. The cutting board was sitting on a white card with a piece of glass over it, so that I could fake it to look like a seamless - about four feet in front of the diffuser. The main light is coming from hard left. It's a gridded AB800 with a 1/4 CTO raking across the vegetables. There's also a white card pretty tight on the right side for a bit of fill.
PS - Yes, I know this font is hideous. Sorry.
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Here is my shot. Pretty traditional approach.
Natural window light only. As I usually use flash I thought I would try something different for a white shot. Inspired by watching Sue Bryce's portrait teleconference.
Lighting info:
Western Facing window with shower curtain
Foamcore with silver reflective material on face, hole cut for camera lens and hung over food reflecting back window light onto front of food.
Food on white plexi.
Add a dash of PS and voila.
EDIT - Here is the final salad and setup shot for 1-light desk lamp lighting. No PS, just LR adjustments, no local adjustments. Color correction using Color Checker, as usual.
Setup for final salad image:
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I can see I need more powerful lights. Overhead, I used a 10.5 inch dish purchased at Home Depot with a 125 watt flood light. to attempt to keep the background from fading to blue, I added a speed light above the camera and pointed towards the background.
I still got some fade in the background, but I was unable to find a more powerful bulb in the short time I left myself.
Craig L. Howe
www.craighowe.com
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Broccoli Slaw Ingredients
Lighting: Windows to left of subject, B800 @ 1/4 power into umbrella 3' above and 90 deg to right of subject.
Left room at top for recipe or Title.
Really struggled with the above image yesterday. After a nights sleep figured out I was using a silver umbrella not white, brought the light in and down closer. What a difference a day(nights sleep) makes. Took the following shots in much less time and am happier with them.
Just trying to figure out the lighting!
Lighting setup.
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Craig, you should be able to lose the background with that setup.
Post your setup and someone may be able to help.
You may be fighting different color temps on the lights. If you need help with that just ask us.
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Don - Any image tags for this week?
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Everytime I look at this thread I get hungry..
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Dang! I'm not doing this round of Project 52 and had been staying away from the threads.
I just decided to look at this one for fun, and now I REALLY want a salad!
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Antipasto ...
or as we call it Emily Salad
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Buko Salad
5 large cans of Fruit Cocktail
Grated coconut meat from 10 Buko
2 cans Lychees
1 bottle Nata de Coco (green)
1 bottle Nata de Coco (red)
1 bottle Kaong (white)
1/4 kilo Seedless Grapes
1 can Condensed Milk
2 cans of Cream
Buco Salad is a Filipino salad. My wife is Filipino and she helped me with making the shot more Filipino "authentic." All non-liquid ingredients were placed on banana leaves for presentation. Liquid ingredients are presented in bamboo bowls. Both banana leaves and bamboo are native to the Philippines. This is a photoshop composite of individual images for each ingredient.
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Since we could do a desert too, I went with a cookie recipe.
Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Directions
1. In large mixer bowl, beat margarine and sugar until creamy. Add vanilla; then gradually beat in flour, blending thoroughly.
2. Gather dough into a ball, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm (1 hour) or for up to 3 days.
3. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
4. On lightly floured board, roll out dough to 1/4" thick. Cut, place on lightly greased sheets. Bake 35-40 minutes or until firm to the touch (press very lightly to test). Transfer to racks and let cool. Store in an airtight container.
from All Recipes, allrecipes.com/recipe/brown-sugar-shortbread-cookies/deta...
Dan
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Tzatziki - From Simply Recipes
2 cucumbers, peeled, quartered lengthwise, then sliced
plain yogurt, about 1 cup
a couple of teaspoons of fresh dill
Gently mix together the ingredients. Salt and pepper to taste.
Setup: canon 580ex, 1/8 power, bounced into lightbox.
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Regrettably I'm not going to make the deadline on this one. Blasted real life getting in the way...
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Lost your link to your image...
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Thanks Don for great assignment, had really unusual dinner this weekend.
I Had no time to go shopping for really white background therefore used existing one, not quite good for this shoot.
Shrimp Salad with Cucumber and Mint
Shoot setup (behind background 2nd flash):
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Well, here it is. Once again I enlisted the help of my amazing wife. This time she was not on camera but prepped the food for me. This was my first time photographing food. So, we'll see...
Here's my setup.
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I choose to make a danish specialty for this one, we use this to serve with marinated heering or fried heering in vinegar pickle as shown in the background on rye bread. I can attest to its brilliant taste and only really lacked the snaps...
I really struggled with getting the light to work as I wanted, used two Einsteins, one above with a socked BD and one from the right in a strip box to soften shadows, but after the text was added and 5 minutes of adjusting in PS I am fairly happy with it.
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Grapefruit, Cabbage and Jícama Salad
2 cups shredded red cabbage
1 cup shredded jicama
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar, or other vinegar
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 small chile pepper (preferably Thai chile), minced, or dried red pepper flakes, to taste
1 teaspoon lime juice, or to taste
1/2 cup coarsely chopped mint leaves
2 grapefruits, segmented, tough membranes removed
Salt and pepper, to taste
Set Up shot. Speedlight with radio trigger on the stack of books to light the background, led flashlight in the foreground was handheld for light painting.
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Ingredients for Broccoli Salad.
Lighting setup:
white cardboard on two sides and bottom
softbox 1½ feet above with SB900
silver fill cards on left side and behind camera left of broccoli
1/200, f20, 135mm
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Yeah, I know, the bottle is tilted a bit without being artistically tilted!
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Don said simple, so here goes. The first is actually the salad I made for my wife (before she was my wife) the first time I cooked for her. I was so focused on the main course that when I opened the refrigerator to prepare the salad I discovered I had nothing but a head of Iceberg lettuce. The main course was already cooking and there wasn't any time to get to the store before she would arrive, so there it was, the most glorious salad ever (which she still reminds me about).
Expanding on the above, ever so slightly.
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Not the healthiest but still my favorite.
Spinach Salad with Hot Bacon Dressing
1 Bunch of Spinach
6 strips of Bacon
4 boiled Eggs
4 Mushrooms
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
2 Tbs bacon Drippings "fat"
2 Tbs Vinegar
1 slice good Bread crusts trimmed off cubed and toasted
oops just found that dust bunny
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Here is my attempt. Ended up more of a still life. White foam board behind and to the right. Scrim above with a flash six inches above that. Flash set to 1/4 power. Soft box to left with flash set to ETTL.
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No stretch to say my food photography needs a LOT of work. So let the beatings begin. I really struggled with getting front to back sharpness even at f/14 w/ 50 mm lens. I think I needed to back the lens off a bit and crop later.
Not happy with these at all...I will DEFINITELY be reshooting this one!
Savory Spinach Salad with Walnuts and Blue Cheese from recipe.com
For the bottom shot, I had the shutter set to 1/1250 (I believe) and used the high speed sync on my Canon flashes to help me light it, but even at ISO 1600 I was still at full power on the flash and could not stop the action of the salad being tossed...er, thrown.
Lighting: Canon 580 in Westcott Apollo softbox overhead, and 2 Canon 430s lighting the background.
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Here is a pasta salad for the recipe shot. I don't think we ever make this the same way twice so I wasn't too strict on the ingredients. I also used what we had around the house and didn't make a special trip to the store.
Shot with a modified foam board light box. Used 4x3 foot softbox for top, foam board for back, right, and bottom. Front was open for camera. Left was a 2 foot softbox and reflector to add a highlight and help brighten the background closer to white. Cleaned up in Lightroom and Photoshop - curves for highlights and shadows and dodge tool to tweak white background.
Absolutely hated the Kroger logo on our bottle of oil. Took it out in one of these shots. Oh well.
Really enjoyed this project. Learning a ton with Project 52!
Here's another angle and tighter crop. Not sure which I like best.
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Bob, this is probably not the best place to comment but here's a quick thought: the higher you set the power on a Speedlite, the longer the duration of the pulse, and the lower the capacity to freeze action. When in HSS it's even worse as your flash is acting like a continuous (albeit pulsing) light source and you have to depend on your shutter speed to freeze action.
For maximum stopping power you'll want your flashes under 1/4 power (or any power setting that will give a pulse duration under 1/1000s - a quick google search should provide some results). Kill your ambient lights (just enough for them not to register), set your camera to or just under the max sync speed without HSS, and play with aperture and flash power to get a correct exposure. If your pulse is short enough, this will freeze the action much better than HSS.
Hope this helps, and sorry Don for interrupting the thread with gear talk! ;)
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Berry and Nut Salad
Strobist Info:
ISO400 1/200sec f16
Single Canon 580EX II at 1/2 power
Flash in 46" Phototek Softlighter II Umbrella directly above
Triggered by PocketWizard Plus II
White bounce cards camera left and right
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I left room in the lower-right corner for text, and tried to build the rest of the shot more-or-less on the diagonal.
This is a (very) basic Chef's Salad
In this case,
Lettuce
Ham
Turkey
Hard-Boiled Egg
Mushrooms
Cilantro
Optional: Add cheese, tomatoes, bacon, and/or a dressing of your choice.
Pictured is a raspberry vinaigrette.
Here's the setup shot for it. I know, I needed to move the light more to the side. I ended up losing a lot of light off the front, and while it was a nice shot, it wasn't to spec and needed saving in post. (*Sigh*)
There's an Einstein 640 behind the soft box. Man, but I love that thing! The reflectors are as close as they can be without being in the shot, and sometimes they were in the shot.
Here's what my lunch looks like on most days. Yes, I fix something similar to this pretty much every morning.
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I guess I'm not cut out to be a food photographer. This assignment sounded easy enough, but I ended up not happy with the photos I produced and settling with what I had. I bought the ingredients for the salad the day before the shoot. I started early on the morning of the shoot to get the best natural light. I could not get the natural light to work. I put up a 72 inch diffuser panel against my window and found there are window panes and a tree that cast shadows on the diffuser. I put another diffuser in front of this diffuser to tone down the shadows but they were still there. I tried using the window light as a side light, but that didn't look right either. The biggest problem I had was getting the reflections and the specular high lights to look right on the bottle. As you can see, I did not succeed, but instead gave up due to frustration. I ended up making a white background in photoshop as well as working up the color and exposure of the photo. I started shooting at 7am that morning, and abandoned the shoot by 5:30pm. As you can tell by my set up pic, I tried many things. I guess I need to find a apartment with an uncluttered window or a different solution to simulate natural light. I also mis-read the assignment and thought we were supposed to shoot square. I think there's a poem that speaks of learning is suffering.
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Chris@ImageEvolutionPhotography edited this topic 3 months ago.
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Continued learnings but not looking forward to the critique. Last week, I thought I had captured something pretty good and anticipated Don's comments only to get four quick areas for improvement an no atta boys. However, that is the only way I will grow.
Thanks for the setup shots everyone as that will help in the long run. Large softbox to camera left with smaller one above.
Note:Updated with Don's level tutorial video today
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GHG Photo (Grey Houston Gibbs) edited this topic 3 months ago.
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In Bachelor-ville, salad comes in a bag...
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vujiphotos edited this topic 3 months ago.
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@macfilipe DOH! (Head slap moment) Thanks so much for the tips. I completely forgot that the power setting of a flash corresponds to its duration. My brain was so caught up in using the shutter to stop speed that I was using my flash in HSS mode in an effort to make the shutter do all the work. I knew that HSS creates a virtual steady stream of light, but never thought to actually cut my flash power down to shorten the duration, instead of trying to pump more light into the scene to give the shutter some leeway. Will definitely have to remember that for future stuff.
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@Bob: no worries, we've all been there in one way or the other... and will be again at some point! ;)
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@Don - is the vokle recording form last night up & running? Have been on and it gives a duration of 23 hours but doesnt play when I click play..... would love once to join live but think the timing would be early here in the UK.....
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For some reason, Vokle recordings never work for me with Chrome (live is perfect though, so go figure). If that's what you're using to watch it, try Firefox.
As for live timing, it all depends on how you look at the clock... it usually begins at 2.30am, finishes sometime between 3.30am and 4am, and it's usually worth staying up for. Or getting out of bed for an hour and then going back to sleep. Try it once, I believe you won't regret it. ;)
edit: forgot to say I'm in the same time zone as you (Porto, Portugal), so I speak from sleepy experience!
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@Macfilipe - thanks... I have used the playback function on Chrome - will try again from home as I am on the customer network so perhaps their firewall blocks video (I can get to the right page just not play the video)....
as to getting up - my wife would lynch me if I said I was doing that - but maybe one time I will manage it by sleeping downstairs.....
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If the email that was sent out last night (at some point after the live critique) was for the critique itself, then I can't access it either. I click the link in the email and I see a "black" video screen with the time that Rob had noted but can't get it to play.
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It seems to not be working... I have asked VOKLE to look into it. Have not heard back.
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Was there an audio critique done? I didn't see it on the p52 site earlier.
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@Don - cheers - its FUBSI'd.....
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I'm not particularly thrilled by how this came...I'll keep working on this and post if I end up doing something more interesting. The recipe for this dish is simple and yummy too...here's a link for anyone interested...
www.parenting.com/article/butternut-squash-muffins-recipe
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