I’ve been practicing my skills in photographing foods. It’s actually not difficult, but there’s some thoughts, that have to be made, before pressing the trigger. Like what depth of field would you like? Where would you like the direction of the light and what kind of light? You have to think about the white balance aswell. You don’t want the food with strange colorcast. It has to look delicirous and ready to eat. I got a lot of great information and tips from this book by Nicole S. Young: Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots. It’s well written and well illustrated, and also includes lots of inspiring images.

Here’s a couple of images I shot, using nothing but natural light. My main light, the window light, is actually just a large window. This day we had an overcast softening the sun, as if it was a gigantic softbox. The soft light surrounded the food nicely. To avoid the dark shady areas, I used an reflector to bounce the light back in. I shot with my Nikon 85mm f/1.4 (On sale at Amazon atm.: Nikon 85mm f/1.4G) at f/2. Iso 200.

Keep in mind this is babysteps, and I still have lots of room to improve. I hope you got something from this anyway. My approach to this, will be the same for a while. Thanks for reading!