This week I shot food as a theme. Meaning, at every meal, I rearranged what I was eating, cleared off most of the rest of the table, and took pictures of it. My parents thought this was awfully strange, but I assured them to have no fear, it was for a school project, and all in good fun. I wasn't developing symptoms of OCD or anything!
What I found most difficult was actually finding good perspectives to shoot at. Not everything looks great as a background, so this involved a lot of staging. For example, I had an entire elaborate ice cream photo shoot, in which I used scrapbooking paper was a background, set up ice cream in a bowl to look pretty, used a desk lamp as lighting and fired away. The entire thing took about an hour, and whenever I had to readjust some element, I would have to shove the ice cream in the freezer to keep it looking nice! I feel like those turned out pretty well, though. My favorite picture was one of these. Among the others of this set are pictures of my dinner, which consisted of an egg roll and fried rice. I set up my plate to look appetizing (not that my mom's cooking doesn't always look appetizing, of course!) and placed some chopsticks for added effect and theme. That picture was probably my second favorite of these. I also put the chopsticks in the big bowl of rice and took a couple of perspectives. The next morning I also took pictures of my breakfast, which was French toast. The previous day I had just conveniently gotten a food magazine, so I looked through it, searching for inspiration. I noticed that any pictures of waffles or pancakes featured syrup drizzled across them, as well as a giant block of butter. In this spirit, I stuck a huge hunk of butter on my toast, took the picture, and then pushed it off to the side of my plate...because that much butter on anything is really quite gross. But it looks pretty!
All in all, I had fun with this assignment. Here is the aforementioned favorite picture of mine, taken during the ice cream shoot of epic proportions.
Shutter speed: 1/15
Aperture f-stop: f6.4
ISO rating: 100
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