After reading something on Lara Ferroni’s blog Stillife with…. I had to check out something she posted on a foodphotography class that was going to be online. Now you have to know that it is extremely hard to find anything to do with either foodstyling or foodphotography in Holland. The UK you can probably find some, but most of the stuff is originating from the US.
I have been thinking about going to the US to do either a foodstyling workshop or a one on one workshop with a foodphotographer, but that costs – obviously – a small fortune, since I would have to fly to the US, stay there for some time and then ofcourse also pay for the workshop itself. Which is simply not cheap.
Anyway, so I read all about the online course given by The Perfect Picture School and I figured I give it a go, so I enrolled for the four week course in foodphotography, It’s all online, so each week we receive a lesson as well as an assignment.
The first lesson is all about learning how to control the light from different sources; starting with daylight and then we’re moving to artificial light with it’s various options and attachments etc. I have been practicing a bit this afternoon with a bunch of grapes and a cookie..
I’ll show you here the differences and the lighting I used. Keep in mind though that none of these files have been edited, so they are straight from the raw file. The idea was also to try and shoot the same scene in daylight and with artificial light but trying to get the same lighting more or less.
Daylight from the right, no reflection
Artificial light (studioflash Bowens Gemini 500) no reflection
Daylight from the right with reflector on the left
Studioflash from the right with reflector on the left
Daylight from behind no reflection used
Daylight from behind with reflection
Studioflash from behind with no reflection
Studioflash from behind with reflection on the front
Angled studioflash from 45 degrees behind left with grid and barndoors
Angled studioflash with grid and barndoors and reflection from the right
As you can see the various angles and reflection used make a huge difference on the final result!! It wasn’t exactly new material but it is always good to go and have a good look at how the light behaves anyway.
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