Playing With My Camera

I have spent part of the day learning more about lighting and composition in food photography.  There is so much to learn and know that it is overwhelming.  Today as I sat reading 1/10000000000000  of the tips and tricks to photography, I was tempted to think small with a ‘I’ll never be able to do this well’.  Then another thought came to mind.  Why don’t I just play around with lighting on tangerines and boiled eggs.  I can definitely do that.  I am learning that photography requires patience and humility.  No matter how much you know…there is still more to learn.  Here is some of my playing around.  If you want to know what I am reading, go to the links provided under Food Photography on this site..

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This is the set up.  The box is where we hold our coffee spoons.

An egg with cool lighting.

An egg with warmer light.

I had wanted a nice medium boiled egg but I was distracted and ended up with a hard boiled egg with a very faded yolk.  It didn’t look too appetizing.

Playing with lighting again.

More orangy oranges..

Playing with the 105mm.

My attempt a really close up.  I am hoping soon to get another photoshop program besides the iphoto one that came with the computer.

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