I had this thought when I was in the shower. Or maybe it was when I was watering my lone curry leaf plant. Anyway, that’s not important. What’s important is, how can we all take better food pictures, right?
Here’s one of the very first food pictures I took.
Looking at this now, I am thinking.. I really like that picture. Its true that the lighting could be better and I can find a better place now to click it without that part of the stove showing up on the right side and maybe, I should choose a fresher looking green chilly but really, I am too lazy now to actually do a set-up for any of my pictures.
But I like that I made the effort to cut up a lemon wedge, find a curly long green chilly, add a blob of butter (just behind the blog of kothamalli chutney). The colours are nice, they balance well and I would want to bite into that sandwich if I was hungry. Right?
I am getting tired of the white background already! While the picture quality has definitely improved, its like I have lost my creativity in the process.
Each of us has a ‘style’. A technique that makes us stand out from the gazillion other food bloggers out there. Looking back, I feel like I have only worked on the quality of the pictures and never really nurtured the creative side. Its true, I may never do elaborate set ups or buy those studio lights
any time soon but I can still take my pictures to the next level by going back, taking a look at what I was capable of and then building on it from there.
So dig into your archives, its similar to going back to looking at your college pics, getting amazed at how thin you were and then going on a crash diet. Only, for this exercise with your food pictures, you can still eat whatever you want 🙂
This is the post I had started typing on Monday and posted accidentally. Forgive the glitch!
Nags I liked your first click a lot..Smiles..
Ur food clicks always looks fantastic for me Nags..
That's very sweet of you Sra. Many people said they liked the paneer burji picture but honestly, I think its too 'plain'
Nice post 🙂 sometimes in reader,at first glance in picture itself we can assume the post author,everyone have their trade mark ways to present… And definitely one has to change that way to make the pictures in the monotonous way …I recently started thinking of changing and do it in different way !
Sharmilee, you take nice pictures, so you have every right to suggest tips or give me feedback. And that's exactly what i am talking about, i no longer use those coloured papers. I have just "moved on" and looking back, I realise i need to rethink and go back 🙂
I always feel the same way u do…when I see others pics. These days I plan abt the supporting props well before so that I dont forget them when I arrange…but sometimes yes the instant idea clicks well too!!
It always adds a strength to our pics if additional props are used instead of just clicking the dish alone…I got this idea only from my fellow blogging friends.
Believe me, I've grown seeing ur pics that only after reading ur props photography post I seriously started concentrating on props…and went shopping for them right from the coasters
to the bowls 🙂 Yeah I agree white suits best and makes our pics professional but still adding colors makes them more appealing.
I always liked ur background parchment color paper pics which are missing in the recent days…?! U can insert such posts in between few white bg posts – Just my thought & observations…hope u dont mind!
Oh let me stop here not that xperienced to give advice to u 🙂
Srimathi, that website looks awesome. I think most of the food is fake though 😀
Me, you are right about the locales too. I always end up going back to the same white table and now am so bored of it! The lunch box idea is great!! 🙂
Nags.
Just a thought – but what about different locales?
I know it might be tough to carry the food elsewhere but you could put it in a lunch box.
🙂
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Hi Nags,
I like your clicks they are nice. Its your style that I can figure out when there are bunch of photos. Its nice you are trying to improve. When I make a dish I am always thinking how to present my food. Sometimes it is a challenge and somehow when I have done taking pictures I suddenly get ideas and I go with that. Its how I look at the food through the camera that matters to me. Please do let me know if you have ideas. Also in some web sites there are food stagers links, its amazing as to how well they look into the whole effect apart from the food itself. http://www.foodstylist.in/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=8&p=0&a=0&at=0. She is a food stylist from India look at her clicks.