Food photography C&C please

[shaunly]

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]

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

 

[786soul]

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]

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]

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

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Why are you clipping the plate in every shot?

 

[Taylor510ce]

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]

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]

I think i will send round Gordon Ramsay

 

[NateS]

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]

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]

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

 

[Village Idiot]

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.

 

[shaunly]

Thanks everybody for the tips. Let me go back and make some adjustment. Maybe a reshoot as well.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I think i will send round Gordon Ramsay

My hero!