Food again

I'm not sure if it's because I like photographing food or if it's just a more willing subject that a 5 year old or a toddler, but here are some shots from another practice session.

Here it is straight out of the camera (SOOC)


Here it is post processed (PP'd):


Natural light from a window. No reflector. I wish the shadows underneath weren't so dark- I should've used a reflector. Processing- I brought up the midtones with a curves layer, then added a multiply layer on just the garlic since there wasn't a lot of detail visible with the SOOC shot.



I got some beautiful eggs from someone and decided to try shooting them as well-

This one is PP'd, but just with a simple S curve on the curves layer and an Unsharp Mask. It is also natural light coming from where the top of the image is with me standing above them.

Here they are with more of a rim light-

It's actually the same lighting, I'm just positioned a little below level with them.

Here's PP'd:

I believe it was just a simple curves layer.

Food

Yellow bell pepper- over exposed in the red channel according to my Photoshop highlight warning blinkie:



Senigang- a delicious soup. I wish I had done it against a darker background so that I could've captured the steam a little better. Looks a little underexposed to me now that I've uploaded it to the web. I'm not sure if that's really the case or just different color profiles. I need to figure that out. Also should've sharpened both of these images.


I've found some really great food photography related blogs that I've put on my Google Reader so I can keep up with new posts and scan the titles of old posts and read them obsessively :)

Still Life With - this one has a Flickr group associated with it, along with monthly challenges that I'd like to participate in. (Note to self, build confidence up to post....)
Jaden's Steamy Kitchen
Teri Shoots Food

Hmm....food photography is fun....