Nomi's brother Nathan visited today for the afternoon and evening. He's a talented cook, among other things, and he and Naomi had a fun time cooking up a storm. I saw an opportunity to grab a couple of photos, and try my hand at food photography. It helps that Nathan really knows how to present beautiful food, but applying some of the skills I've learned from Strobist helped a lot too. In the end I'm pretty happy with my first real attempt at food photography!
Later on in the day, once it had become darker, I thought I'd try and apply the technique I used on the frog last night in a portrait photo, and Nathan was kind enough to sit for me. So with a darkened room, flash in hand, I opened the shutter and ran around zapping the poor guy. I flashed through an old frisbee from the left for the blue, through some cellophane from the right for the red, and crouched behind him with the bare flash bulb for the back lighting.
A little tweaking in photoshop (mostly to remove my hand from over his shoulder) and I'm pretty happy with the result! One of my favourite portrait shots yet. Nathan was very patient to sit rock solid still while I tried to balance the flash exposures in a dozen or so attempts.
2 comments:
All three photos look very yummy! Well done on first food photography attempts. Second one looks Gourmet Traveller worthy!
I love the portrait, looks cool.
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