I made this pretty moist and delicious bundt cake this afternoon. It came out of the oven around 4.30 pm, then had to cool and by the time I wanted to take a photo there was no light left whatsoever. That meant having to wait either until the next day or find an alternative solution. [...]
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The other day I was tweeting along happily and mentioned that I was going to be doing a babyshoot later that day. Mona, from the fabulous WiseWords, reacted if I could maybe write something about shooting a baby on my blog… I asked the parents for permission to use some of the photos and they [...]
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For today’s post I am gonna try and explain how you can solve some of the problems that occur when shooting in low light or at night. Especially at this time of year it seems to be impossible to shoot your dinner in daylight since, well, most people don’t eat their main meal during lunchtime [...]
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I get questions on a regular basis on the specifics of how I take my photos and how I light the scene.. Today is a very cold day and not really suitable to go outdoors, so I figured I entertain myself (and hopefully you) by taking a couple of photos and showing you the difference [...]
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A lot of people ask me what kind of camera they should be buying to take good foodphotos. While that might sound like a simple question, it is not! Ofcourse I can all tell you to buy the most expensive digital SLR but I am sure that is not the answer you’re looking for.. I [...]
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Once you have figured out how to improve on your lighting skills there is another element that will have a major impact on how your final photo looks and that is the composition and the angle in which you take your photo. In all photography and especially in foodphotography the angle is of great importance [...]
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What is cheaper and more readily available then good, old daylight? And it’s a lovely light for food photography, so if you’re on a tight budget or just want to start simple, choose daylight!! Now one of the first ‘mistakes’ I see happen a lot is that many people start using flash as soon as [...]
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I am not sure when the whole photographing a cake-thing started, but I believe it was after I had done a course in decorating cakes at Oldenhof in Hilversum. I got so enthusiastic that I started searching the internet for more information on decorating cakes and ended up at the forum De leukste taarten where [...]
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So what are all those terms such as aperture, shutterspeed, iso and what on earth are they used for?? To start off, I will give some basic information on what it is. How you can use it will follow in a later article. Aperture If you click on the above link you will get the [...]
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I’ve been so busy with setting up the new website that I hardly have had time to shoot any food. Most of the stuff is working now, with a few minor exceptions, so I thought I post some ‘old’ photos of a behind the scenes of one of the food shoot that I did with [...]
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Let me begin by saying that I am absolutely no expert when it comes to editing things in photoshop, but I can do the basics. In general I believe in the idea to make sure you shoot the food right in the first place thus limiting the amount of time spend behind the computer. Let’s [...]
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