OH, YUMMY . . . I'll bet, knowing first hand your baking skills!
Hmm . . . as for your questions. I'd put it not on a white plate because it's too similar in color to the white cookies and too much contrast for the chocolate. Do you have a clear plate? or a more medium-colored one so each is evenly contrasted, even if in the opposite direction. I can see your light source on the left, which is also where your whiter cookies are, and the shadows on the right, which is where your darker cookies are, and I can see you (or maybe your hand and camera) in the front! I'd use my 50mm lens because that's my widest aperture, and I'd put the camera on a tripod or some stack of books or something to allow long, still exposure, and use an aperture deep enough to get the texture of the white cookies. So, guessing since I don't know your camera or lens, I would definitely use a tripod, iso 100, aperture 5.6 (or alternatively go really shallow but shoot at an angle instead of straight on), and I'd either use as natural a light as possible or studio light coming from behind the camera. But hey, who am I to give advice if you can ask the studio photographer extraordinaire of food, Mona? @Mona65
[sigh!] the two of you @jyokota are going to make me fat. ☺☺
the technical side, junko has given you. but i would stack them up, unevenly, if you have enough about 4 or 5 tall stacks, on the wooden counter and i will shoot them as low as the surface and in high key. or you can just send them to me and i will eat them. hahaha!
I not sure i like thee the flat lay genre, and this doesn't do you photography and baking skills justice.
I think an odd number, stacked and shot more from the side with ore light and accompaniment of one on a plate and witn other crockery, as if about to be served. Both Vikki and Mona have inspired, and advised me, in the past and they always tell a story with their food shots.
Do you need the @jyokota tripod?? Yeah, always use those and as @summerfield says it saves time in the long run, and I always try without ( and fail!!)
@jyokota Thanks Junko for tagging me and your comment about my food stuff. I appreciate that, but I have no idea if I can help.To start my photo brain working, I ask you dear Stephomy @stephomy to please send me a batch of this delicious looking cockies, they look super yummy! ;-) Just kidding, but they are really looking good. But are difficult to shoot, because of the colour contrast.
Concerning taking food pictures,...
Junko gave you some really good tips already: Wide aperture, tripod! or similar, avoiding your shadow, light source (use manual whitebalance), and yes I would use a different angle and plate. I like to be eye-level with my food. And as Summerfield @summerfield and Jackie @30pics4jackiesdiamond mentioned already, I would pile them, stack them, put them on an etagere, or on baking paper in a cookie container, or you highlight just one, next to a cup of coffee... Add your hand holding the piping bag,...or even the kitchenalia you used for producing these,...the ideas are endless. Make your product the model and look, what would suit it best in colour tones, etc. When you go really shallow you will highlight and direct the eye to the cookie, make shure you spread the photo props on a long line. Hope this helps. And by the way I have no studio. I shoot my food in the kitchen or on the eating table with kind of setups like this. http://365project.org/mona65/2015-plan-b-alb/2016-08-30 Here some food-shoots: http://365project.org/tags/mw-food
Please contact me, if you have further questions, or if I can be of any help. Happy snapping!
Hi Stephomy thanks for the challenge, you like editing, so my challenge for you is to make a photo of something normal around the house entten do a awful lot of editing so in the end it looks like something different. Show use both photos. Havefun.
@jyokota@summerfield@30pics4jackiesdiamond@mona65 Thank you so much for giving me tips. I do have a tripod. I should try to use it for this. I bet this will be easier in the summer, when it's still light out at 4pm haha. I was completely relying on indoor lighting.
I think at some point today, as long as we don't eat them all, I'll try to do a stacked shot before it gets dark.
Hmm . . . as for your questions. I'd put it not on a white plate because it's too similar in color to the white cookies and too much contrast for the chocolate. Do you have a clear plate? or a more medium-colored one so each is evenly contrasted, even if in the opposite direction. I can see your light source on the left, which is also where your whiter cookies are, and the shadows on the right, which is where your darker cookies are, and I can see you (or maybe your hand and camera) in the front! I'd use my 50mm lens because that's my widest aperture, and I'd put the camera on a tripod or some stack of books or something to allow long, still exposure, and use an aperture deep enough to get the texture of the white cookies. So, guessing since I don't know your camera or lens, I would definitely use a tripod, iso 100, aperture 5.6 (or alternatively go really shallow but shoot at an angle instead of straight on), and I'd either use as natural a light as possible or studio light coming from behind the camera. But hey, who am I to give advice if you can ask the studio photographer extraordinaire of food, Mona? @Mona65
the technical side, junko has given you. but i would stack them up, unevenly, if you have enough about 4 or 5 tall stacks, on the wooden counter and i will shoot them as low as the surface and in high key. or you can just send them to me and i will eat them. hahaha!
I think an odd number, stacked and shot more from the side with ore light and accompaniment of one on a plate and witn other crockery, as if about to be served. Both Vikki and Mona have inspired, and advised me, in the past and they always tell a story with their food shots.
Do you need the @jyokota tripod?? Yeah, always use those and as @summerfield says it saves time in the long run, and I always try without ( and fail!!)
Good luck if you redo it!!!
Concerning taking food pictures,...
Junko gave you some really good tips already: Wide aperture, tripod! or similar, avoiding your shadow, light source (use manual whitebalance), and yes I would use a different angle and plate. I like to be eye-level with my food. And as Summerfield @summerfield and Jackie @30pics4jackiesdiamond mentioned already, I would pile them, stack them, put them on an etagere, or on baking paper in a cookie container, or you highlight just one, next to a cup of coffee... Add your hand holding the piping bag,...or even the kitchenalia you used for producing these,...the ideas are endless. Make your product the model and look, what would suit it best in colour tones, etc. When you go really shallow you will highlight and direct the eye to the cookie, make shure you spread the photo props on a long line. Hope this helps. And by the way I have no studio. I shoot my food in the kitchen or on the eating table with kind of setups like this. http://365project.org/mona65/2015-plan-b-alb/2016-08-30 Here some food-shoots: http://365project.org/tags/mw-food
Please contact me, if you have further questions, or if I can be of any help. Happy snapping!
I think at some point today, as long as we don't eat them all, I'll try to do a stacked shot before it gets dark.