Food Photography

Editorial v.s. Fine Art

Fine Art food photography puts more of an emphasis on the food . In contrast to Editorial photography the recipe is not included in the photo. In Fine art photography they often use shallow depth of field to focus on certain points of the photo. Fine art food photographers show the beauty of the food. Often with the food styling they will use glues or paint to enhance the photo since it is for the beauty not actually eating.

Differently, Editorial food photography places the emphasis on showing the food in appealing way so people will try the recipe. Often the recipe is on the photo or there may be multiple photos surrounding it. In editorial food photography you want to make sure the viewer can know what the food you are photographing verses fine art where the photo can be more abstract.

Here is links to both my Editorial and Fine Art Food Interest Board:

http://www.pinterest.com/maddieehl/food-photography/ 

Carrie's Presentation:

I loved Carrie's presentation. It was very helpful how she showed us examples of what to do and what not to do, so we could easily see what makes a good food photograph. I really loved how in her presentation she talked about how you can still incorporate your personal style in the photos. In the examples she showed us you could see how she personally likes using natural lighting and likes to keep her photos pretty simple, really highlighting the food. Also her tips on using tarnished silverware so you don't get hot spots in your photo was really useful.

Star Book

This is the Star Book I created. It contains a range of photos of family, friends, nature, food, and other things that represent me. 

Self Portraits

People typically think of self portraits as including their face. This was one of the things I loved though about doing a more metaphorical self portrait because a photo can be so representative of someone without even showing their face. So for mine, I took a photo of my bare stomach with my insulin pump because I have had Type 1 Diabetes since I was 3 years old. I then wrote on the photo different words that represented the battles I faced living with the disease but also what it taught me and how it shaped who I am. All together it is a metaphorical but accurate photo of myself.

This is my Traditional self portrait. I just decided to keep it simple with the black background. Both my hair and shirt are a little representative of me because it is how I always wear my hair and also my shirt is one I wear all the time because of  how comfy it is. Making this photo a little more representative of me besides the obvious of it being a self portrait.

Hand Painted Photo

This was a photo I took last year of a tree outside my house. When hand painting over my photo I decided to go with some extremes by making the sun that was peeking through the trees very yellow and the green of the moss a very vibrant green. I still wanted to maintain many of the details that I loved on the original photo of the bark, so I went over some of those details with a pencil to place emphasis on them in the photo.

Dawn and Dusk

In the summer my family spends most of our time together on our deck. On any given morning I would walk down the stairs to find my mom sipping her coffee and reading her book on the lounge chair as the sun came up. Then in the evenings, my family loves to gather around the table and eat dinner and play the game "Would you rather", which incites some interesting debates. The deck in my family represents a central location of gathering, where we start and end our days. This is why the deck is the location for both my dawn and dusk photos. The first photo, which is dawn, of my mom is her drinking her coffee. To contrast that in the dusk photo of my dad he is drinking beer, which also in itself represents dawn and dusk.