have your cake and eat it.
I can have (bake/make) my cake and eat it. Literally.
So mom asked what I wanted for my birthday last month and I jokingly answered "a mango cake", specifically. Tiramisu, strawberry shortcake, Blackforest cake, Pandan cake.. No - it must be a mango mousse cake. To be entirely honest, I can gobble down a 13" mango cake without blinking. I love it ( Read more... )
So mom asked what I wanted for my birthday last month and I jokingly answered "a mango cake", specifically. Tiramisu, strawberry shortcake, Blackforest cake, Pandan cake.. No - it must be a mango mousse cake. To be entirely honest, I can gobble down a 13" mango cake without blinking. I love it ( Read more... )
I'm not sure if you're referring to food photography, but generally, remember these four things 1) lighting 2) LIGHTING (haha that's how important it is) 3) Camera angle 4) Super macro/macro function.
Find a really good spot to take your pictures. Lighting is important, natural lighting being best. You know how when there's pretty bright sunlight where you can barely look up at the sky? That kinda light is not too good either. It makes your pictures turn out impossibly orange/yellow XD Perfect lighting, in my opinion is when the clouds blanket the sun rays and all you get is just general diffused (day) lighting, not intense rays. Never take food pictures at night or when the sun has set = that results in really dull-looking pictures (unless you have studio lighting and the works!) If you'd refer to my lj entry of the lemon tart, that's a good example of a dull picture taken at night under normal lights :| I'm not too fond of that particular picture XD That one was taken with my Nokia E72 though, not my Olympus.
Camera angles - this one requires experimentation. Once you've got the lighting down pat, take pictures of your subject/food from different angles to find the best one. For me, I end up with 100+ pictures of one subject itself XD and then I sift through them for the best. You can be really creative at this step, go crazy with your angles :)
For food photography especially, the super macro or macro mode is very very essential. Always use this setting for extreme close ups of your food subject. For human/inanimate objects, you can do without these two settings!
And oh, one last thing: photo editing ;) Most of my pictures are really large in pixels: 4000 X 2500 pixels (width X height) so I resize them on photoshop and selectively color/enhance the pictures. Honestly though, I rarely do much touching up of the pictures involving bright colored fruits (ie. mangoes, strawberries) - under natural diffuse lighting, their colors already jump out at you without having to do much coloring/editing (for the mango mousse pictures, I barely adjusted the brightness, and that is almost all the editing I did). In contrast, I had to do quite alot of editing for that lemon tart picture -_-
I'm sorry that I was really long-winded in my explanation T_T Just wanted to impress upon you that you can still take really beautiful pictures without a fancy DSLR camera! :) Do let me know if I can help you in any other way! Cheers, and do enjoy fiddling with your camera!
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My Casio's a 12.1 mpix model (ex-s6), but I guess I haven't been very good with camera angles and lighting, because most of the pictures I've taken ended up looking really dull, dark, and in some cases even blurry. Even though I've had this camera for a while, I also haven't really fiddled around with it's features. I think I'll take your advice and try to get acquainted with my camera as well. Thanks again for your explanation, hopefully the quality of my pictures will improve! ^^
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