Food Photography read and write

Work with a great Team, Even if You’re the Only One on it. You want everything to be brightly colored and placed neatly. Sauces, when used as decoration, should be bright and shiny. f you must photograph for an extended period of time, you may wish to replace parts of the dish as needed. Melted cheese will harden quickly and no longer appear appetizing. If you are photographing any type of meat, it will likely start to release juices that will mar the plate. Focus on the details, if you have a piece of meat that is grilled, make sure those grill marks are beautifully straight and perfectly criss-crossed. If you have a sushi roll, make sure the pieces are placed in an appealing manner and that any details like sauces or garnishes aren’t detracting from the image. Natural daylight tends to be the most flattering for any subject, food included! I love to shoot food right next to a big window. You can either backlight it by shooting into the light, or use the available light to light your image. Use a Shallow Depth of Field. When you shoot with a shallow DOF, you’ll want to keep the focal point towards the front of the image.

Five Tips about motion blur. 

• Coastal areas can be a landscape photographers dream and are great places to capture motion blur.
• A variation of the spinning child shot above is to head to your local playground where there is usually a variety of equipment which is great for motion blur shots. Swings, merry go rounds, slides or pretty much any equipment that gets those on them moving are fun to experiment with.
• moving cars are an obvious place to look when you’re wanting to capture motion blur.
• Many rides have both elements of movement and stationary components which can create a wonderful effect.
• dance is about movement and therefore presents us with opportunity to capture some nice motion blur.

DSLR Read and Write

• Mirror system inside lets you preview through the viewfinder the same image that is being captured on film/sensor
• one major way that DSLRs are different from consumer “point and shoot” cameras or phones: detachable lenses
• prime lens: only one focal length​
• zoom lenses: variable focal lengths
• HIGH ISO value means the sensor will be MORE sensitive to light, meaning it will take LESS LIGHT to get the right exposure
• use the lowest ISO you can to avoid grain/noise​
• camera shake: occurs with a shutter speed slower than 1/ [focal length] of a second
• the denominator becomes the f-stop number​
• smaller number actually represents a larger opening
• more expensive but worth it even if you don’t need the largest aperture because lenses perform better at 2 stops smaller than their max. aperture
• longer lenses APPEAR to have a shallower depth of field because they are magnifying the subject, which flattens the perspective and makes our eyes think the DOF is shallower
• Setting the “correct” white balance setting tells the camera how to make your whites and grays neutral, without any color tint
• Full Auto (green rectangle) – camera does EVERYTHING for you
• CA (creative auto) – camera does almost everything BUT lets you choose brightness, depth of field, picture style by pressing the Q button

Reasons to become a Photographer:

Becoming  photographer can be a great job and provides an infinite number of possibilities for your work. If you are a photographer you can be your own boss, you shoot when you want to shoot you take pictures of whatever you want to and have freedom for whatever you want to do. You can have unlimited range of freedom when it comes to making your work, you can shoot anything you spot and have the capability to show the world whatever you want to. Being a photographer allows you to branch out into other fields if you choose to, you can shoot for sports, shoot for famous music artists or fashion models really anything you choose to. It is a very modern thing to do in this era, everyday on social media you see a picture and those pictures are shared everywhere and your work could be one of the pictures to go viral.

Read and Write Review:

Aperture controls the area over which light can enter your camera. Shutter speed controls the duration of the exposure. ISO speed controls the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor to a given amount of light. When shooting in low-light conditions, your shutter speed will typically decrease, resulting in camera shake or motion blur. To avoid such issues, you should increase ISO setting to a higher value, such as ISO 1600. Depending on your aperture and light conditions, you might need to increase ISO even more. Aperture Priority lets you choose the aperture setting you want, but the camera chooses the shutter speed. Shutter Priority lets you choose the shutter speed you want, but the camera chooses the aperture setting. To use autofocus with your camera, you’ll need to perform the following steps: Set the lens to AF mode. Most brands have a button on the lens and the camera body to switch between AF and MF mode. Press the shutter button halfway down or the AF-ON button if you use back-button focus to focus on your subject. Incident light metering will give you consistently correct exposure results, because it won’t be fooled by subject reflectivity. It means that if you want to copy the white balance settings from one image and paste them onto another that was taken with a different camera make or model, your final images might not look the same. Depth of field is the area of acceptable sharpness in front of and behind the subject which the lens is focused. Exposure Compensation allows photographers to override exposure settings picked by camera’s light meter, in order to darken or brighten images