Some Food Photography

During the past Christmas holidays, Denise baked some delicious cookies and I took the opportunity to take some shots.

Baked stuff is a favorite of mine when getting to food photography, and since I had bought a few different kind of breads, I shot those as well. Finally I am posting some of those pictures!

You might notice some have not been color corrected, but I liked the blue dominant and I left it. The first batch of pics has been shot in natural light, using some white reflectors in the front to redirect the back-light from the window. The last ones, on black background, have been shot with artificial light.

               85mm f/4.5 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/4.5 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.0 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.0 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.0 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.0 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.0 1/10sec ISO200

               85mm f/5.6 1/6sec ISO200

               85mm f/11.0 1/100sec ISO100

               85mm f/11.0 1/100sec ISO100

               85mm f/9.0 1/100sec ISO100

Portobello Road – part 1

During our last visit to London, Denise and I decided to go to Portobello Road. We had never gone there and we thought it would be fun to visit the famous street market. It is really large, with a lot of things to see, both old and new.

               24mm f/20 1/60sec ISO 100

This time I decided to switch to black and white, since I thought it would work well with antique stuff or anyway with the feeling of a street market. Though I have not been shooting that much in b/w, I love the technique and I would like to do more.

               155mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 100

At Portobello Road you do not find only old used objects, more or less antique or rare, but also new clothes, cakes, food and street performers. The place is huge and, specifically during the weekend, it covers not only the street with the famous name, but also other side streets and areas, so plan to dedicate to it the whole day, if you want to take a good look at everything – or if you can brake it into two days for less hours, that might be even better.

               145mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 12800

 I like to concentrate on details, so I often choose to zoom in and explore objects with my camera. I usually work with a large aperture to focus selectively just on one area or detail while the foreground and background are left soft. Many times just one part of an object is sharp while the rest goes immediately off focus.

                                        70mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 1250

               75mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 2500

               155mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 6400

               105mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 3200

                                        75mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 100

               185mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO 250

               85mm f/5.0 1/250sec ISO125

               155mm f/5.0 1/800sec ISO 1250

               190mm f/5.0 1/800sec ISO 640

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               200mm f/5.0 1/800sec ISO 100

                                   168mm f/5.0 1/800sec ISO800

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                                    120mm f/5.0 1/800sec ISO2000

Holiday Time

I hope you all spent a good Christmas Day. During the Holidays Denise gives me material to practise my food photography. I particularly like to photograph bread and cakes... I don't know why... ;)

Of course after the photos, somebody has to get rid of the cake...
Cranberry swirl bread.

             105mm f/5.6 1/20sec ISO 320

             65mm f/4.0 1/15sec ISO 320

             105mm f/5.6 1/15sec ISO 320