Learn how to see exposures I see a lot of blogs with pictures of their food that are too dark. Learning how to get the perfect exposure takes time. After a while you will start to see the difference in images when they are too dark or too light, you’ll just know by looking at…
Do I need to calibrate my monitor? Yes!
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…
Why You Might Need To Adjust Your Camera’s LCD and How
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…
When to change your ISO setting for exposure
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…
The Relationship Between F-Stop and Shutter Speed
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…