When you start getting into photography your style tends to lean more to one principle or the other like food or fashion or products.  It’s not that you try harder when you photograph that particular subject it is just your thing.  You don’t even have to think when you photograph it, everything just comes naturally better than everything else.  The trick is to make everything you photograph look that good.  To work hard at everything else that you become a well-rounded photographer.   As an “artist” you must always strive to broaden your horisons…

The Radisson Blu Hotel in Sandton was so kind as to allowing me to photograph food in their beautiful restaurant.  The food their chef’s prepared especially for my food photography looked absolutely divine.  When photographing food I think the lighting and styling is the two most important factors.  If your lighting isn’t up to par, your food will look terrible.  You need to catch the subtle highlights on the food and accentuate only the most important part of this equisite bowl of food.

I know people eat a whole salad but if you try to photograph this exactly the way it is served you might find that it all looks too busy.  Rather use a smaller plate with a smaller portion to make sure that you don’t visually overload the client’s senses.  Keep it simple and shoot from an angle between 40-60 degrees (this is the angle that people usually look at their food when they are getting ready to eat it) 

I cannot begin to tell you how important it is to keep experimenting with different angles and lenses.  The food photo may look perfect in the back of your camera’s little LCD display but once you upload them onto the pc you will often see that you prefer a different angle that what you chose in the beginning.

Riani