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Food shoot behind the scenes for Dulcinea foods

Updated: September 15, 2020 | By Christina Peters

Food Photography Shoot | Food Photography Blog

  I like to create images that look like they are outside but were really shot in my studio. This was shot for Dulcinea. We were creating a scene as though these were just picked off the farm. I have a garden center right near my studio so we'll get these kinds of grasses you see in the background from there often. I had the help of my good friend and prop stylist Amy Paliwoda. Amy and … [Read more...]

Shooting Tethered with Adobe Lightroom for Your Food Shots

Updated: June 28, 2020 | By Christina Peters

Shooting Tethered | Food Photography Blog

This post was updated June 28th, 2020 What Does Shooting Tethered Mean? Shooting tethered means that your camera is attached to your computer. As you are taking pictures, the images come into your computer via a usb cable - or wirelessly, but that is much slower and I never take pictures that way. As a professional photographer, if you are in a studio environment, your clients will expect … [Read more...]

Do I need to calibrate my monitor? Yes!

Updated: August 11, 2019 | By Christina Peters

Monitor Calibration with ColorMunki | Food Photography Blog

This post was updated December 15th, 2016 - and I'm happy to say that the prices on the calibration equipment has gone down quite a bit since this was first written. If you are serious about your food photography (or any photography for that matter) one of the things you are going to have to get comfortable with is calibrating your monitor. Monitor calibration is a process you do with a device … [Read more...]

Camera modes – what do they mean? AV, TV, P, etc.

Updated: August 31, 2019 | By Christina Peters

What are camera modes | Food Photography Blog

There's many food bloggers out there who always shoot in one of the "automatic" camera modes. I get told this in class all the time. I'm going to break down each of the modes here so you can understand what the camera is doing in each one. Different cameras might not have all these modes you see here and other cameras might have a few extra ones as well. If you see other icons for other modes … [Read more...]

Why You Might Need To Adjust Your Camera’s LCD and How

Updated: August 12, 2019 | By Christina Peters

To get the right exposure you have to learn to interpret your camera's LCD. Your camera's LCD is not going to look exactly like your monitor when viewing the same image. In fact some camera LCD's are shockingly different from what your digital file will look like. The image above is of the set of one of our students, Patrick Evans-Hylton. He has a point and shoot camera and it did a pretty good … [Read more...]

When to change your ISO setting for exposure

Updated: September 15, 2020 | By Christina Peters

Quick Menu ISO

By now hopefully you've seen the post talking about ISO. Its important to always shoot with the ISO at the lowest setting (usually 100) in order to keep the data in your image as clean as can been (with as little digital noise as possible). When you shoot using  a tripod you will almost always be able to set your ISO at the lowest setting. However when you are hand holding (which I know you … [Read more...]

The Relationship Between F-Stop and Shutter Speed

Updated: August 12, 2019 | By Christina Peters

  Now that we have gone over the three crucial camera settings used to achieve the proper exposure, f-stop, shutter speed, and ISO, we need to talk about how they work together. To start I'm only going to address f-stops and shutter speeds first. I will address the third component ISO in another post The f-stop, shutter speed and ISO are completely tied together for exposure. When I'm … [Read more...]

What is ISO and How It Works

Updated: August 12, 2019 | By Christina Peters

ISO is the third setting that you need to know about in order to get a correct exposure. I've already addressed the other two - f-stop and shutter speed in these posts. As I've mentioned before the perfect exposure is a combination of these three settings, f-stop, shutter speed and ISO. ISO stands for International Standards Organization. In a nutshell the setting choices for ISO (50, 100, 200, … [Read more...]

What is Shutter Speed and How Does It Work?

Updated: August 12, 2019 | By Christina Peters

Getting the perfect exposure is challenging for most students who take my classes. Often they are setting their camera to one of the "auto" exposure camera settings (AV, TV, Program, Fully Auto, etc) and just crossing their fingers that this setting works in getting them a good exposure. I want you to be able to control your camera and understand how it works to properly expose your images. The … [Read more...]

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