food
FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY
The role of the food photographer is to elicit the same mouth-watering reaction as the smell of freshly baked bread early in the morning or something like that I read in a food book; a blog went onto suggest “eat with your eyes”, and an even funnier one, “Eat me, eat me now!” lol :p
I enjoy food. I enjoy taking pictures of food and with this in mind see pictures of real food below, all food that came out of real restaurants in the Cape area. All the food was enjoyed, no contrived studio styled taste et al stuff here, that’s at another url.
That being said, call me to discuss your real food photography requirements
Ralph Higgo 081 411 5496
Hi there
Please could you send me your food photography rates.
THank you.
Kind Regards
Hi,
Please can you send me your food photography rates.
Thanks.
Hi, I have recently started a food blog and am trying to improve my food photography skills. Do you know of any courses I could look at doing? Or do you teach classes at all? Please let me know.
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Hi Ralph
After all the great comments you have received, I feel I have to be the one to bring some criticism. The Sushi images are pretty good, nice and clean and even lighting but for the rest, you need to work on your technique. Lighting seems to be a particular problem. The composition of the first image is good but you have a mixture of daylight and artificial light, thus the blue shade on the sauce and the meat. The rest have too many shadows and highlights with some spots even blown out. The piece of chocolate cake with the ice-cream has good lighting but what about the dark foreground? The viewers attention is automatically drawn towards it. The close up of the meat makes the food look greasy and soggy. This is a difficult problem to deal with but a bit less moisture and lighting set up so that you get less highlights should solve the problem. The shot of the calamari just looks like a snapshot. Too flat through the light source being set up straight on. Light coming in at an angle would have improved the image as there would have been less reflection of the light from the steam. Hope you can take this as constructive criticism.
Cheers
Joachim
Hi Joachim, thanks for taking the time to comment, yeah, the sushi pics were the last food pics I “snapped” whilst doing photos for the Harbour House restaurant when I was working for Full Circle Magazine.
At present I am putting my energy into concentrating on weddings, corporate work and fashion but when I do decide to specialize in food you will see www(dot)foodphotography(dot)co(dot)za go up.
Had a look at your site as well, impressive stuff.
All the best
Ralph
Hi Ralph
All the best with your wedding, corporate and fashion work. Well worth it once you get going.
Cheers
Joachim