Here is another food photography post.

If you are interested in food photography, then please follow my blogs. I am getting into my own routine at the moment when taking food pictures. Last week I completed a food blog and shoot with the use of aperture priority, but today I have returned to manual settings on my camera.

For each photograph I take now, I always use a tripod, a set light source and my ISO set at 100. I will always consider the background, props and placing of items in each photograph.

I also shoot ideas from influential imagery that I see from other food photographers, cooks or bloggers.

Breakfast Bar set up

The next set of phone images shows, how I have considered my own viewpoint for my composition and if I plan on using the rules of third. I intend on shooting the item so that it looks like it is larger than in reality, so I will set up my viewpoint so that the camera is positioned to be looking up to the item, at a low angle.

Once I have arranged the viewpoint and set up the composition, I used my silver reflector and directed this light where required. I have uploaded two final versions of this photo shoot. As one has a pure white background and the other has a grey background. So for each photo, the light has been either directed at the background or the item. I could have extended this further and lit the background and the object by adding in a further reflector or light source. Both images have been focused stacked, as the oats are a difficult element to focus on.

Take a look a look and let me know which is better.

Any comments are welcome