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Five tips on making great food pictures with little effort/money (video demo)
- Plan plated shots in advance with test pictures.
- Set the scene some cutlery, side dishes, wooden planks for steaks
- A good eye for composition and some advanced planning far outweighs using expensive camera equipment. Heck, most of my recent pictures are shot with an iPhone.
- Make the most of natural light, and use cheap daylight bulbs when necessary.
- Post-processing using Paint.net, a free software package
| Cooking and blogging with a Large and Minimax in deepest, darkest England-shire
| My food blog ... BGE and other stuff ... http://www.thecooksdigest.co.uk
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Nice write up. When's the last time you've had a hot meal?
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Any chance I could forward mine your way to process?
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Another thing to consider is the temp of the light bulb you're using. I bought a couple of 800 lumen, 60 watt replacement LED Daylight 5000K bulbs at Ace and used them with the spring clip aluminum reflector shop lights. Similar to daylight from a north facing window. Very accurate color representation.
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lighting-and-electrical/light-bulbs/led-bulbs/3618949
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
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Would this work for pictures of razors and soap?
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Carolina Q said:Another thing to consider is the temp of the light bulb you're using. I bought a couple of 800 lumen, 60 watt replacement LED Daylight 5000K bulbs at Ace and used them with the spring clip aluminum reflector shop lights. Similar to daylight from a north facing window. Very accurate color representation.
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lighting-and-electrical/light-bulbs/led-bulbs/3618949______________________________________________I love lamp.. -
the veggies in the top pic look lonely, like a clique in the desert______________________________________________I love lamp..
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XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle
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Great write up, somehow drinking comes into play with my stuff....learned this though from @foghorn today...doesnt make them look,better but ...Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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Carolina Q said:Another thing to consider is the temp of the light bulb you're using. I bought a couple of 800 lumen, 60 watt replacement LED Daylight 5000K bulbs at Ace and used them with the spring clip aluminum reflector shop lights. Similar to daylight from a north facing window. Very accurate color representation.
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lighting-and-electrical/light-bulbs/led-bulbs/3618949-----------------------------------------analyze adapt overcome2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky. -
Thanks folks.@Carolina Q good suggestion . I use the sort of bulb you mention when I can't use natural light. This is my setup:The bulbs are 1600 lumen, 30 watt, 6500K. I use two to spread the light, I guess I could use one to do the sort of shot you showed. Using them I can get shots like this:In that shot the light source was from WSW, with a bounce card at E to illuminate the cheese and eggs. There is a little over exposure on the spaghetti to the left of the picture, but that's fine, it's not like I'm shooting for magazines. Yet.However, in looking at your pics, I wonder if I got 2 x 800 lumen bulbs I would solve some of the OO issues I have. I bought the 1600 lumen bulbs because, well, I didn't know what I was doing at the time. Maybe it's time to experiment a bit more.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Carolina Q, are you just trying to show color with those photos? I'd want some light on the backsides of those items to reduce the contrast. Maybe a card or second, dimmer light.
Bob
New Cumberland, PA
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@Photo Egg an early birthday present from SWMBO for food photography. She liked the pic of your chicken drumsticks.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Stormbringer said:... because, well, I didn't know what I was doing at the time.
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Got any tips for me?
South of Nashville - BGE XL - Alfresco 42" ALXE - Alfresco Versa Burner - Sunbeam Microwave -
SonVolt said:Got any tips for me?
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Stormbringer said:@Photo Egg an early birthday present from SWMBO for food photography. She liked the pic of your chicken drumsticks.
Let me know what you think.
It's a tiny camera and slippery.
I do shoot in program modes most of the time and wish you could limit the wide aperture as it likes to go wide open @1.8 and this sucks at times. Exposure comp dial on top is excellent.
Buy a spare battery.Thank you,DarianGalveston Texas -
Crap. First it was an Egg, Then the FlameBoss. After that it was all the CGS stuff I had to buy. Now I have to go buy special lighting and cameras to take pictures of my cooks.
When will the money spending ever end? Or will it ever end?
Marshall in Beautiful Fruit Cove, FL.
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SonVolt said:Got any tips for me?
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SaintJohnsEgger said:Crap. First it was an Egg, Then the FlameBoss. After that it was all the CGS stuff I had to buy. Now I have to go buy special lighting and cameras to take pictures of my cooks.
When will the money spending ever end? Or will it ever end?
They don't call it the "BIG GREEN" Egg by coincidence."Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber
XL and MM
Louisville, Kentucky -
YukonRon said:SaintJohnsEgger said:Crap. First it was an Egg, Then the FlameBoss. After that it was all the CGS stuff I had to buy. Now I have to go buy special lighting and cameras to take pictures of my cooks.
When will the money spending ever end? Or will it ever end?
They don't call it the "BIG GREEN" Egg by coincidence.
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| My food blog ... BGE and other stuff ... http://www.thecooksdigest.co.uk
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My son is the photographer in the family with the professional Canon, all the lenses and the drone etc. I guess I could bribe hi. No pics...No eat.
Off now to see what eggcessories I need to buy with the money I just saved.Marshall in Beautiful Fruit Cove, FL.
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