Hoping this does better than my previous food shots. Quite often when I shoot our food I've used on-camera flash because I had to, because it was late by the time it was cooked and there was no light left.
I approached this differently, used a tripod so I could use a slow shutter speed to get enough light and I didn't have to mess about with the flash. Ideally I'd have got lower down to the food but because it was sushi you needed to be relatively high up to see the filling.
The tablecloth was improvised using a white pillowcase. Trying out the high key look, not quite sure about it to be honest. What I do know is it's hard to make the plate stand out in basic....
These turned out well and tasted delicious considering it was the first time Sara had made sushi and the first time I'd eaten it!
Recipe garnered from here - I can highly recommend it if you've never made sushi before :-)
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This is too sharp (bet you thought you'd never hear that one...huh?).
The current style of food photography rarely if ever has everything in focus. If the food image is being used to idendentify specific product such as, a spice, an herb, a fish or utensil, etc. only then is sharp focus necessary. Otherwise full dof food images went out with Betty Crocker Cookbooks in the 1970/s/80's. Cheers!
Having said that, this will probably place better than my shot.
Composition of elements, lighting and colors are all wonderful in this photo. Composition is clean and minimal such that the food really stands out. The dish is also wonderfully arranged with the composition. The lighting illuminates your subjects wonderfully such that the viewer can fully appreciate the food set on the plate before them. Nice job on this one 8.
very nice shot and making me hungry, but I'd like to see a little more sat. Also risky with so much white-on-white. Would like to see the sushi pop more.
Might suggest a tighter crop, with the chopsticks laying across the sushi. The wrinkles in the background, and reflection of the blinds(?) in the plate take away from this shot.
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