I’ve decided to follow a bit of an Australian favourites/plant based/sustainable desserts theme for the project but have decided to break up the grid a bit with a few cocktails (because it wouldn’t be Aussie themed without them, let be honest) and also to save my family from eating nine different desserts over the course of a week. I’m choosing desserts based on the colour scheme that I can play with from them and then choosing backgrounds and props based on what would balance out the grid, for example:
- Sticky date pudding (green)
- Apple crumble (green)
- Cucumber/mint/lime gin fiz (green)
- Cherry ripe slice (red)
- Lemon berry tart (red)
- Lamingtons (red)
- Pomegranate and sage vodka fizz (red & green)
- White lady cocktail (red & green)
- Macadamia cups with rosemary (red & green)
I mentioned in my Week 6 blog an article by Darina Kopcok that I found really helpful in choosing the best way to shoot different foods and have referred back to this article again for this project. I learnt last time though not to get to stuck on the details in the pre-production because when it comes to production, chances are I’ll probably change the whole lot!
The first photo I shot was of the Lamingons and I wanted to play around with selective focus and the rule-of-odds which Kopcok states is when photographing a group of objects and having an odd number of elements in the frame appears much more visually interesting than an even number of elements. However, after taking a few photos of my initial set up for the shot, I felt like it wasn’t working and played around with a few different backgrounds and props before I landed on a shot that I liked. I thin I will still pick a photo from each set up though and edit them as I’m interested to see if, in post-production, that is the shot that I still choose to use when it’s time to add them all to the grid or if one of the shots I felt like wasn’t working fits better with the aesthetic when put against the other shots.
References:
Kopcok, D. and >, M., 2020. 20 Delicious Food Photography Examples To Inspire You. [online] ExpertPhotography. Available at: <https://expertphotography.com/food-photography-examples/> [Accessed 6 December 2020].