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 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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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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Photo Title: Zucchini Nachos
Blog Name: goodLife {eats}
Equipment Used: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5, Photoshop CS
Technical Details:
Macro setting
No Flash
Adjusted the exposure on the camera to +1 (thanks, Helen for this tip in your spotlight!)
Photo Editing:
In Photoshop CS:
1. Images>adjustments>brightness & contrast: adjust to +10 on contrast
2. Used the sponge tool on the edges of the white plate to desaturate. [...]
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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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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: 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: 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 & Recipe Link: Corn Flake Waffles
Blog Name: Dine & Dish
Equipment Used: Nikon D300
Technical Details: From EXIF Data
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 320
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Photo Editing: Using Adobe Photoshop, I cropped the photo some and added some brighter tones to the [...]
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