For me, setting up a table for food photography takes time. So, when the light is good, I am in an inspirational mood and I have time, I am taking more photos with the same settings. In the photos you will see I have a corner with lots of light coming from lots of windows.
Here I used only a diffusible panel to have smooth shadows. The background is the same, my beautiful old wooden board. I also added a grey shawl and a yellow board. The light was the same, only the styling and the props changed in the photos.
You can see some examples with the settings.
Keep taking photos!
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Very helpful post!
Thank you
Gorgeous pics! What kind of camera are you using?
Thank you. Nikon D700
Thank you for sharing this helpful post. I’m having a wooden textured board made for me that I can use in my food photographs. Your tips are always very appreciated for us inexperienced food photographers.
Happy to help.
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What camera and lens are you using? I’m trying to up my food photography game. I typically shoot landscape and moved to a Sony A6000 to lighten the load for travel. I’m heading out of town tomorrow and thinking of picking up a Sony 50mm 1.8 Lens and some lighting as most of the time when I cook it’s dark outside and in Northern Ontario it’s dark at 4:00 PM during the winter months.
I have a Nikon D700 and this lenses
https://cooking-without-limits.com/2015/02/19/my-lens-for-food-photography/
https://cooking-without-limits.com/2015/12/11/nikon-af-s-vr-micro-nikkor-105mm-f2-8g-if-ed/
Great post. Can you guide me in taking pictures with settings for blurring the background objects and highlighting the main object in natural lighting . Thank you .
You can find here about blurring the background
https://cooking-without-limits.com/2014/11/20/depth-of-field-for-food-photography/
Am I understood right- you window is back, so main light is coming from back? I read somewere that better light is coming from side?
I should try back light as well….
Thank You!
I have light coming from back and left side
The light coming from the left if due to the panel, correct?
The light coming from the left has soft shadows because of the panel. It was a sunny day.
fascinating insight – thanks for sharing that!
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Thanks a lot. This is really helpful. 🙂
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Always amazing what the right prop can do, still a novice on that issue, but it’s fun experimenting!
I’m so bad at taking photos! I’m going to get a few choice props and have a play! Thanks for this post x
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Great pics!
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Wow, nicely done pictures! I like your photo corner 🙂 Cool job!
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Fabulous – thanks for this post!
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Great perspective!
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I was wondering what type of camara
Nikon D700
Love! ❤️
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Such beautiful photos! They seem to get better and better!!
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Thank you so much for posting this! Your photos are amazing
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Lovely photos, and interesting to see how different the same spot can be with different props! And having a dedicated photo corner is a really, really good idea, you go girl.
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YOU keep taking photos. I really should stop. Whenever I quickly snap a picture of something I am making or have made, I think of you and shake my head and say to myself, “I just can’t do it. I am hungry and I want to eat it!” 🙂 And I think of how lovely your photos are!
Thank you. Don’t stop taking picture.
I tried to using collages in Lightroom and I have been unsuccessful .I have used free online picture editors for that, but really would like to know how in LR. Also do you use a reflector on the opposite side if your subject. …diffuser on one side and reflector on the other? I think you are explaining that its enough light to only use the diffuser to soften the shadows…right?
I don’t use LR that much. Yes. I have enough lights to only use the diffuser.
Ok, got it.
Beautiful! I love your tips!
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Helpful, that you!!
Thanks for sharing this! I’ve been looking to advance my photography skills and this is helpful!
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Very helpful! I’m still trying to improve my photography, which I think needs more work than my cooking 🙂 Great resources on this blog!
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good stuff, good input 🙂
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Beautiful photos, when you put them together you can tell they’re in the same area. But each has it’s own individual characteristics that make each stand out from the others. The lighting in this area is wonderful. Wishing I had this spot in my home for my photos!
Thank you