Lindt Chocolate Photos

[shortpballer]

Did some of these photos for our book to show at a chocolate salon in Paris. C&C welcome.

 

[mishele]

YUM!!!

 

[sactown024]

Awesome shots man! care to share what equipment was used?

 

[shortpballer]

Awesome shots man! care to share what equipment was used?

Thank You,

P25+
Hasselblad 100mm f2.2 HC
HTS 1.5
23mm macro adapter
Profoto Pro-8a
and misc. Profoto grids, etc.

 

[AlexanderB]

Maybe I'm not right, but lighting is too evident here, especially in the last photo. The tile edge in the last photo is overexposed, almost clipping.

 

[tirediron]

Agree, there are a couple of very minor highlight issues with the lighting, but overall? An excellent set; well layed out and well shot!

 

[runnah]

I would have cleaned up the square a bit more before shooting. Maybe use a razor blade to cut it then melt the edges slightly to make them smoother.

Otherwise good stuff.

 

[gsgary]

In the first shot the out of focus at the bottom is very distracring

 

[cool09]

Is it true that lots of food photo ads are faked (ie McDonalds) where they use white glue in lieu of mayonnaise?

 

[2WheelPhoto]

Nice!

 

[sm4him]

All these people talking about lighting issues, smoothing up the edges of the squares, oof issues...and all I see is CHOCOLATE. :lmao:

I'm not sure of what your ultimate goal is--selling the photos, or selling chocolate. If it's selling chocolate, you'd have me hooked with these!
If it's selling the photos--well, you'd better have the chocolate there, too.

 

[rlemert]

Awesome shots man! care to share what equipment was used?

Heck with the equipment - care to share some of those chocolates????

 

[Samerr9]

Very nice! Great Job!

 

[shortpballer]

Is it true that lots of food photo ads are faked (ie McDonalds) where they use white glue in lieu of mayonnaise?

yes this is true. However in our shoots we use only the real products. Most food photos aren't even food sometimes. We used chocolate bars straight from the grocery store as you and everyone would buy them. We wanted the viewers to see the chocolate in its real form. Not chocolate created solely by a 3D imaging program (lindt's chocolate photos right now). We left the edges as they were broken off, and used the lines these edges to work with the background.

 

[shortpballer]

All these people talking about lighting issues, smoothing up the edges of the squares, oof issues...and all I see is CHOCOLATE. :lmao:

I'm not sure of what your ultimate goal is--selling the photos, or selling chocolate. If it's selling chocolate, you'd have me hooked with these!
If it's selling the photos--well, you'd better have the chocolate there, too.

Thank You Lighting issues mean nothing to me . I have no education in photography, and I like breaking every rule there is! I'm an artist, not a business man