Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Food Photography; Part 2- Understanding Angles

While clicking the pictures of  food, it is important to consider the angle of the subject. If the subject has height, and depth, then it is better to click it at angle of 0-20 degrees to show the depth of the subject. But if it is flat dish like soup, clicking at 90 degres top-down can give better images.

Today I made Spanish egg omelet. Now Spanish omelet is stuffed with veggies and it looks like a cake. Removing this picture from top, did not give any idea of depth of this omelet.,



Later I cut out a small traingular piece and then focussed on different angles to show the depth. A cut piece of the omelet gave an idea of the depth of the subject and the light from the back of the camera,  we could see the texture of the omelet more clearly.



I clicked one more pictures from opposite direction and keeping the small triangular piece next to the the larger one



Which one looks better???

I took another set of photographs with different angles of a pair of red-and-green Capsicums. I took eighteen photographs from different angles and positions. After studying different angles and the light effect, I like this one.



I went on photoediting tool to adjust the light with filters and got this final picture.



What do you think?

Points to take home:
Notice the food structure to decide on the angle
To check for noisy or distracting background
To understand the direction of light

PS: My food photography guide Mr Neel




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