Food photography C&C please

shaunly · Aug 17, 2010

I'm redesigning my restaurant dessert menu and these are some of the new pictures I took. CC are welcome. Thank you
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ababysean · Aug 17, 2010

YUM! But I think they are a smudge too bright?

786soul · Aug 17, 2010

They look pretty good. Only the 5th one the whipped cream looks overexpsosed. I'm wanting an icecream now. If you are isolating these then you might try for some more lighting and a white background, otherwise the desserts themselves look fantastic.

**EDIT: Oh and watch the focus near the strawberries at the front on number 5.

Don Kondra · Aug 18, 2010

Styling looks good, good enough to eat

The lighting isn't doing it for me.

Can you find a spot with natural light and use a reflector ?

And drop the iso, the food isn't going anywhere...

Cheers, Don

timlair · Aug 18, 2010

I'm hungry now...Nice shots but yeah, 5 is a tad overexposed.

Bitter Jeweler · Aug 18, 2010

Why are you clipping the plate in every shot?

Taylor510ce · Aug 18, 2010

Dont cut off the plates. Also, lose the busy distracting plates in the first two. The clean white classics let the food shine better.

Geaux · Aug 18, 2010

Bitter Jeweler said:
Why are you clipping the plate in every shot?

Exactly what I was thinking, it's very bothersome to me .... the first thing I noticed lol

gsgary · Aug 18, 2010

I think i will send round Gordon Ramsay

NateS · Aug 18, 2010

To me, the whites are blown in every shot...not just #5...this ruins it for me and I would do a reshoot and put your LCD monitor on the "highlights" setting that way you can take a quick glance to see if you've clipped the highlights on the shot before moving on.

Petraio Prime · Aug 18, 2010

1) All are overexposed
2) You need more sophisticated lighting, with some light from behind to show contours. The main light appears to be too close.

misstwinklytoes · Aug 18, 2010

Watch cutting off the plate as others have said and try to soften your light some.

Village Idiot · Aug 18, 2010

Petraio Prime said:
1) All are overexposed
2) You need more sophisticated lighting, with some light from behind to show contours. The main light appears to be too close.

That's what I'm thinking. The whipped cream and whites of the food are pretty much blown while the white plates are bordering on changing to gray from lack of light. That's massive fall off for such a short distance.