Busty Kitchen Promo Shots

[Braineack]

Not quite done editing these, but wanted to share anyway. My friend is an aspiring chef who is starting her own food blog, busty Kitchen, and reached out for some portraits to use on it once she launches.

Ended up taking a few hours to take these, as we were constantly rearranging the food and background. Pretty happy with how these turned out.

She asked for "cookbook cover," and I think I nailed it.

This gives a good idea of how I set it up:

36" round softbox for key. 4x3' softbox for fill (I ended up moving towards the middle, close to ceiling, and was shooting directly below it). bounce umbrella for bg and a touch of rim. Reflector to flag the BG light and keep reflections clean.

 

[Grujanidas]

I like it, especially 1st one. The light looks so natural that without mentioning I would not even know.

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[smoke665]

You had some difficult conditions with all the reflective surfaces and still pulled it off. Well Done!

I think overall the first one is my pick, the last one is close. Maybe pull down the highlights on the cheek and forehead just a little in it.

Thanks for showing the setup, always interested in how others achieve the shot. Really like the laptop stand, mind sharing where you got it?

 

[Jeff15]

Nice looking food...............

 

[tirediron]

Excellent job! She should be well pleased with this set.

 

[paigew]

Holy cow, you went all out on that lighting set up! Great pics!

Also, do you prefer to shoot on a tripod like that?

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[Designer]

The photos are great! #4 is my pick.

Her jacket doesn't fit her, though. Not a good look for a chef.

 

[Soocom1]

No. 4 for the cover IMO.
its displaying an effect that tells me.. COME EAT!!!!

Now. Whare dem nuggets? Me hungery!

 

[Braineack]

Really like the laptop stand, mind sharing where you got it?

It's a straight up music stand that I was able to acquire from the office along with some egg-crate after they tore down our little recording studio.

 

[Braineack]

Also, do you prefer to shoot on a tripod like that?

I did at first, but ended up ditching it. I have boom-arm-tripod that I love to setup like that so you can stand at the camera without tripping over the legs. I was however tripping over the dogs in the house...

Her jacket doesn't fit her, though. Not a good look for a chef.

Her slogan is straight up going to be: you cant trust a skinny ***** with food.

 

[Soocom1]

Also, do you prefer to shoot on a tripod like that?

I did at first, but ended up ditching it. I have boom-arm-tripod that I love to setup like that so you can stand at the camera without tripping over the legs. I was however tripping over the dogs in the house...

Her jacket doesn't fit her, though. Not a good look for a chef.

Her slogan is straight up going to be: you cant trust a skinny ***** with food.

I was going to say something but held it.


I like her thinking.

 

[Braineack]

also, key to sucess:

come prepared!

 

[tirediron]

You can never roll with too much gear!

 

[vintagesnaps]

I think in the first two the contrast of the black and white just visually chops her up. It looks like the type jacket that fastens at the waist with a hook and eye, not like a blazer that overlaps, which tends to either pull together or gap depending on the position. It might have looked better with the jacket open, or to stop and have her adjust the jacket in between shots. In the next two the solid black gives more flow to the image.

It looks like the vantage point and perspective seem to be looking somewhat downward which gave an unflattering aspect to her in some of the photos. The food spread looks good in the first but in others dishes are chopped off at odd places. It would have been better to have framed differently or to have asked if you could move a dish a little if needed. The topiary back there in #3 almost looks like it's in her hand, and in #4 the plants behind her are sticking out of both sides of her head; I thinnk it would have been better to either have moved those or to have positioned the subject differently.

The lighting and color and quality look good. But all the equipment doesn't help with framing and perspective and vantage point, it's necessary to see that and adjust before taking the pictures.

The title of the thread is about the woman and her body and appearance instead of about the photography and I find it inappropriate to label it that way.

 

[Braineack]

That's the name of her blog...