My Get Pushed challenge this week came from Laura who suggested I try food photography which is something definitely out of the ordinary for me
I thought I'd try something a wee bit different for a change. During the process the lettuce wilted (I did too), the dogs kept trying to eat the cheese, and butter got everywhere as did crumbs.
I envisaged a fairly straightforward faff in Photoshop - how wrong could I be! So after spending a ridiculous amount of time on such a simple picture, the dogs can now have the cheese they've been waiting so patiently for:)
@yrhenwr Thanks v much - sorry, I've never mastered hyperlinks. If you Google 'floating food photography' it should come up as the first image. (You play about a lot with food on skewers (they keep sliding down) and then just take the skewers out in Photoshop - but everything melts, sweats or wilts ...)
This is fantastic. Worth all the trouble. Your dogs are more patient than mine. It would be the cucumber as well as the cheese they were after! So glad you explained how you did it. It's still beyond my capabilities but I am very impressed. Fav
@fbailey What do you mens 'JUST' take the skewers out in PS?! I'll do spot removing but anything else is beyond my skill and patience... also I don't want to do anything that lessens the importance of the magic moment when I activate the shutter! Old school or what? :-)
@yrhenwr Thank you for making me laugh:) I just spot removed too but removed too much and then spent ages trying to clone back in again. I now have a film camera from Ebay but keep forgetting to take the lens cover off - big big learning curve here. Def hats off to film users!
@hrs If you Google 'floating food photography' Helen, the article on how to do it is just below the pictures. Basically it's just skewering the bits of food together and then removing the skewers in Photoshop. The hardest bit was stopping the food slipping down. Bit fiddly but great fun:)
@sarahlth You layer everything on skewers Sarah and then remove the skewers in PS. Not quite as easy as I'd imagined as the skewers kept falling over! Also the butter melted and made the bread soggy so that kept falling to bits too:)
It's amazing how difficult these shots can be, I tried something similar for a camera club competition and discovered that you need a lot of skill, patience and time to get a photo of anything decent, you've done a great job here!
Well, this is fantastic! I guess it was frustrating and your commentary made me laugh but the end result is FAB! And...the dogs got the cheese...a win-win! Fav.
@miseria Sadly I'd lost my appetite by the time I'd finished playing. The bread was soggy, the lettuce was limp and the cheese was definitely looking the worst for wear. The dogs didn't mind though:)
@quietpurplehaze After Googling food photigraphy, don't think I'll trust a food advert ever again - they spray grapes with deodorant to make them shiny!
Such a clever food shot! I just read the responses where you kindly revealed your secret for setting it up. Such a simple idea yet easy to imaging it being jolly difficult to control! Your end result looks so inviting. :)
The photo is jawdropping! The story had me smiling, but the best comment of the day is by @yrhenwr "lessen the importance of the magic moment when I activate the shutter". Almost made me spit out my coffee!
@randystreat Wish I could take credit for this but I just copied an idea on the internet. Yes, this took five skewers helped out by clothes pegs and cotton as they kept falling over ... the writer made it look so easy too:)
OMG!