Photos taken November 14th, 2012
This food shoot was our last one for the semester. The final group brought in peppers, onions and garlic for us to photograph. The bright, vibrant colors were really fun to work with. For lighting, we once again set up the two fill lights with diffuser umbrellas.
WHAT WORKED:
The top image was my favorite because I felt the composition was the most dynamic and interesting. The organization of the objects keeps the viewer’s eye moving throughout the photograph better than in my other images. I like that the red pepper and the white onion balance each other so neither part of the picture is more dominant. The other vegetables add interest to the composition as well.
I also really liked the following four images. I really like the composition of the picture on the top left, but I still feel the top down view doesn’t do the food justice. The picture on the lower left is one of the only vertical pictures that I liked this semester as well. As for the picture on the bottom right, I like the composition but I felt the white background detracted from the image.
WHAT DIDN’T WORK:
I tried taking some pictures that focused on just one vegetable, but I didn’t feel that any of those pictures were very interesting. The fact that only one color and/or shape appeared in those pictures made them kind of boring to look at. I also tried taking pictures of just pieces of vegetables, but those did not turn out very well either. I think that the pictures where I photographed a combination of colors (three or more) were the most interesting. The following photographs are some of the ones I did not like for the aforementioned reasons.