Food Glorious Food: Bread
To get you started on your food photography project I thought it might be a good idea to start with something that just about everyone eats, bread. I'm not really talking about the sliced loaf variety but the crusty loaves you find in bakeries and some larger supermarkets. Sourdoughs, Crusty Cobs, Tiger Bread & Baguettes are inexpensive but have fantastic textures and would be ideal objects for this task. The bonus is that you can eat it once you are finished!!
Please make sure you research bread photography before you begin. Collect some images and add them to a Bread project page. Decide on the type of image you like and make notes on the lighting used, props and backdrops. These elements are very important when it comes to food photography. If you put the effort in then your photographs will stand out, if you don't then they will just look average.
Task Instructions
Deadlines:
Wednesday 7th October: Initial Photographs
Wednesday 22nd October: Present 10-15 Edited Photographs
Resubmission 17th November.
Please make sure you research bread photography before you begin. Collect some images and add them to a Bread project page. Decide on the type of image you like and make notes on the lighting used, props and backdrops. These elements are very important when it comes to food photography. If you put the effort in then your photographs will stand out, if you don't then they will just look average.
Task Instructions
- Create a new menu item on your website and call it projects.
- Add a new page and call it Bread
- Research bread photography
- Collect around 10-20 images of bread photography that you like and create a gallery on your page.
- Explain in your own words what you like about these photographs using photography terms such as angles, lighting, depth of field, texture & composition. You should also mention the props used and the backdrop and explain the importance of these to the finished photograph.
- Buy some bread and take some photographs. This is your first response - your first try. Explain what is good and what hasn't worked.
- Research a bread photographer whose photos you like. Show examples of his photography. What do you like about them. How have they inspired you?
- What is your plan? Explain what you are going to do and how you are going to do it. Where are you going to take the photographs. What props do you need? What type of lighting are you going to use? What do you hope to achieve. Use examples from the web to illustrate this.
- Go to your local bakery and buy your bread. You may need a couple of loaves just to be on the safe side. Take at least 100 photographs.
- Create contact sheets for display on your website. Annotate these to show the photographs you are happy with.
- Explain what you are going to do in Photoshop to edit them? Show some experimentation examples on your website.
- Edit your photographs. You should aim to present at least 10-15 images on your website.
- Reflect on your work. What went well and what didn't. Are you happy with your final presentation? What would you do better next time?
Deadlines:
Wednesday 7th October: Initial Photographs
Wednesday 22nd October: Present 10-15 Edited Photographs
Resubmission 17th November.