How food photos got their start
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Name: Shaheen
Blog Name: The Purple Foodie
Twitter ID: PurpleFoodie
When & why did you start getting into food photography?
When I started my food blog, I went and bought myself a high end camera phone thinking that it’d be perfect because I wouldn’t miss a photo opportunity – bad decision. Soon enough (okay, it took a few months) [...]
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Photo Title: Chocolate Buttermilk Cupcakes with Vanilla Almond Frosting (Solar System Cupcakes
Blog Name: goodLife {eats}
Technical Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Lens: Canon 50 mm 1.4
ISO speed: 125
Aperature: f1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/160
Flash: off
White Balance: Manually set using a gray card
Set up: Placed a black foam board on my island and a black poster [...]
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Photo Title and Recipe Link: Just Like Lambert’s Thrown Rolls
Blog Name: Dine & Dish
Equipment Used: Nikon D300, 50mm 1.8 lens
Technical Details:
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 250
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Photo Editing:
I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 and adjusted the levels and the curves. I also increased the saturation slightly.
Setup Details: I [...]
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Time snuck up on me! I am extending the deadline for the PB&J Through the lens to next Monday, September 14th! We’ve received some really cool entries so far! Details can be found HERE.
Photo Title: Watermelon Gazpacho
Blog Name: What’s cooking?
Equipment Used: Canon D60 6.1MP, 50mm f/1.8 lens, Promaster 7500DX flash
Technical Details: Exposure: 1/180
Aperture: f/2.5
Exposure [...]
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Name: Paula Jones
Blog Name: bell’alimento (Italian for beautiful food)
Tell us how you started getting interested in food photography: I’ve always been fascinated with photography but did not get into food photography until I started my food blog earlier this year. After being “coerced” by a couple of friends into starting bell’alimento, it was sink [...]
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Photo Title: Share Our Strength Event
Blog Name: Salt and Chocolate
Equipment Used: Canon Rebel XS with a EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens
Technical Details: Nothing fancy at all, just the flash off in automatic mode!
Photo Editing: None, I don’t like to do any editing, although I’m sure I could salvage many a photo this way [...]
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(1) Rachel Hearts Food (2) Guilty Kitchen
(3) She Wears Many Hats (4) CJ Photography
(5) Kitchen OCD (6)Sweet ToothFairy
(7) Foodie Reflections (8) Dine & Dish
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of Through My Lens… an experiment in interpretation. I think it is really interesting to see how simliar and different each photo [...]
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Photo Title: Lemon Ice Cream Sandwiches with Raspberry Swirl
Blog Name: Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy
Equipment Used: Canon Rebel XTi with 100 mm Macro Lens;
Manfrotto tripod legs with Really Right Stuff ball head;
remote shutter release;
1 Lowell Ego Light and 1 white foam board
Technical Details: This photo was taken near a big southeast facing window on a very [...]
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Name: Ben Herrera
Blog Name: What’s Cooking?
Tell us how you got into food photography? I’ve always been intrigued by photography. My dad had an old Minolta camera (late 70’s) that I used for my school courses and field trips. However, I never thought about photographing food until my parents wanted to build a portfolio of the [...]
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Photo Title: Taco Salad
Blog Name Dine & Dish
Equipment Used: Nikon D80, 50mm 1:8 lens, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Technical Details:
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Photo Editing: I adjusted the levels and saturation in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I also used the Unsharpen Mask.
Setup [...]
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Photo Title: Snickerdoodle Cupcakes
Blog Name: My Baking Addiction
Equipment Used: Canon Rebel XSi, 50 mm 1.4 lens, Sunpak 6200DX Tripod, Photoshop Elements
Technical Details:
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec
F-Stop f/5.6
Aperture: f/5.7
ISO: 100
Focal Length: 50.0 mm
Flash: Did Not Fire
Photo Editing: Photo was edited in Photoshop Elements by adjusting the levels, brightness and contrast.
Setup Details: This photo was taken in [...]
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Name: Katie
Blog Name: goodLife {eats}
When and why did you start getting into food photography?
Last fall I started a recipe blog as a place to share all my favorites, new things I’d tried, and family recipes. I thought it would be nice to have them all in one place and that it would make it [...]
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Don’t forget we have the “Through My Lens – an experiment in interpretation” event going on. We’d love to have you join us!
Photo Title: Mallows
Blog Name: My Baking Addiction
Equipment Used: Canon Rebel XSI
Canon 50mm 1.4 lens
Sunpak 6200DX tripod
Photoshop CS4
Technical Details From EXIF data:
Shutter Speed 1/320 sec
F-Stop- f/2.5
Aperture Value- f/2.4
ISO- 100
Focal Length- 50mm
Flash- Did [...]
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1st of all, so sorry for the lack of posts last week. Culinary Snapshot had a few tech glitches we were working through. All should be fixed now!
I’m excited to have a “newbie” to the world of food photography join us on Culinary Snapshot! Welcome, Candy!
Photo Title & Link: Korean Bulgogi & Kimchi
Blog Name: [...]
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I am starting a new “segment” here on Culinary Snapshot called “Through My Lens”. I have learned one thing in particular through your posts on Culinary Snapshot and that is we all do and see things differently. I thought it would be cool to see how you and I (and everyone else) interprets the same [...]
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Photo Title: Focus
Blog Name: The Sophisticated Gourmet
Equipment Used: Canon PowerShot A550, point and shoot
Technical Details: Flash only for photo of the lemon slices in bottom left hand corner. The macro setting was on for all of the photos. ISO is always on 200 for me.
Photo Editing: I didn’t crop or do any photo enhancements except [...]
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Photo Title: Blackberry Flan Ice Cream
Blog Name: What’s Cooking?
Equipment Used: Canon D60 6.1MP
50mm f/1.8 lens
7500DX Promaster flash
5400K lamp
Technical Details:
Focal length: 50mm
Exposure: 1/200
Aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 100
Photo Editing: Saturation, contrast and exposure settings fixed with Photoshop CS2.
Setup Details: Off camera flash set to the left of the subject with reflecting boards to the right and a 5500K lamp [...]
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Photo Title: Peaches and Blueberries
Blog Name: My Baking Addiction
Equipment Used: Canon Rebel XSI, 18-55mm lens
Technical Details: Shutter Speed 1/8 second
Exposure Program- Manual
F Stop- f/4.5
Aperture Value- f/4.4
ISO- 100
No Flash
Photo Editing: I edited the photo in Adobe Photoshop CS4 by upping the contrast and brightening the photo. I also ran a sharpening and subtle color action.
Setup [...]
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Photo Title & Recipe Link: Shrimp Scampi with Zuchinni and Tomato
Blog Name & Link: goodLife {eats}
Equipment Used: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5, point and shoot
Technical Details: No Flash, Macro Setting
Photo Editing: It was very dark last night due to a storm. Times like these I’m so thankful for programs like Photoshop and the wonders they work!
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