Food Photography

Chocolate covered Orange Peels are the stars of this post.
The main point that I tell my students when photographing food, is to make it look delicious!
That’s the number one rule.
My daughter made these for Christmas and they turned out fantastic.
I wanted to document them against a white background.
So, I set up a quick mini studio.
A piece of white paper, propped up against a box and a white bowl and voila!
A delicious looking image worthy of these tasty treats.

The paper makes a seamless background worthy of any much more expensive backdrop.
The lighting?
A large window to camera left.
I used my 50mm macro to get as close as possible to a 1:1 ratio, that is to make the orange slices as life-like as possible.
Did my image pass my test?
Be inspired!

Michael Kitada is the author of i365project.com. He was a staff photographer at the Orange County Register in southern California for almost 20 years and has served as an adjunct professor at UCLA teaching photojournalism and currently teaches photography at Cal Baptist University in Riverside. He is the author of the photography CD, “Take Better Photos Now! ” which serves as a “must have” guide for all serious photographers. Click this link for more information http://takebetterphotosnow.com/