Produce Food and Product Photography
I love the fresh feeling of a Saturday spent at the farmer’s market buying juicy and fresh produce. Photographing it is even better – I love being able to set up a scene that is simple and beautiful with a great natural light. Food and product photography can be very simple and clean sometimes and I love that side of it – I tried to convey that in these photos and used simple lines and natural lighting with my limes, lemons, and apples. I tried mixing it up a little bit with the artichoke and cauliflower, but for the most part, I just love the beauty of fresh fruit in food and product photography.
Food and Product Photography
Food and product photography has got to be one of my new favorite styles and types of photography! There’s so much that can be done with the look and composition to portray a product. I loved spending time photographing different types of products that were both food and objects. With a variety of different products like the apple cider, rose gold jewelry, Angie’s popcorn, glasses, and more, it was a stretch to learn how to balance and use different apertures and shutter speeds, being careful to have a fast enough speed and give enough light, without losing too much detail on the product.
Shaping Fine Art
This past weekend I spent my days in Salt Lake and Park City, Utah soaking up as much beauty and inspiration as I could. Lately I’ve been noticing shapes and how the capture the attention with their simplicity and movement. I’ve also been noticing textures and the way they shape our perceptions of an object. The more I look for these two things, the more I’ve been noticing them all around and Park City and Salt Lake City was full of beautiful lines. I decided that I would start photographing the lines around me, as well as the textures and colors in beautiful Utah and create fine art photographs that reflect what I’ve been seeing.
Light and Dark
There’s something about light painting that makes me feel like I’m in an old movie, like Audrey Hepburn’s Wait Until Dark. With some of these pictures and scenes it was really interesting to try and imagine them in black and white – and even better to see them in black and white after it was shot. I have always loved black and white, and combining the shadows and light patterns that come with table top light painting made me enjoy it that much more. I love that shooting a light painting almost seems like a test – you never quite know what you’re going to get out of each shot, but when you finally get it right, its so rewarding. With the right settings, right light, and a creative mind, it can make a perfect picture – especially in black and white or less saturated photos!
A Little World – Macro
If there is one thing I can say about water drops and macro photography, its all about patience. It was quite an experience to learn and figure out what ways to make water drops work and on what surfaces they stay well on. It is a process of trial and error, but once we started to figure out exactly how to do it, getting those water drops with a reflection can be just like magic.
It was also really fun to see when a reflection would pull through the water drop and create a scene worth seeing. For the set up, I used both the 31mm and 13mm extension tubes to get in nice and tight. I also used a LED light to make sure that the scene was lit well enough, because I needed a very fast shutter speed (1/250) and tight aperture (F/14) to catch the water drop before it fell. It was fun to work with different things for reflections and I think it is definitely a photography skill worth having!
Life Is Beautiful
Bokeh Pearls
Gerber Daisy
Gold Chain Book
Dripping Fork
