Cut Food

10/03/2013 tringel 0 Comments

Good photography is challenging. Getting the right exposure, angle, and aperture are all details that require knowledge, a good eye, and patience to get all of the aspects of your subject to come together and have the true beauty captured. Food photography presents an even bigger challenge. Capturing food may seem easy, especially in todays world with smart phones, photo apps, and editing filters, but capturing the organic state of food requires more then the click of a button and a few filters to cover up the not quite right colors. It is not simple to keep the food looking fresh, appetizing, and even indulgent. You must prevent the food from looking shiny, from melting under the numerous heat lamps, from losing the vibrant colors that define each item. And, don't forget background and plating, it must compliment the food rather then drown it out. Now that you have gotten that down, let's take it to the next level - photographing a dish that is cut in half. Just insane right? Not for Beth Galton, a professional food photographer. Galton along with food stylist, Charlotte Omnes took on the challenge after being inspired by a client request.

I think that this project turned out fantastically. Honestly, I love it! Every time I look at the photographs I am amazed all over again. Who would think to capture the inside of a meal, who really even stops to take an in depth look at the inside of foods in general? Maybe that's just me, I can be rather ravenous at times...

Any-who, I love what the duo has achieved. I especially love the coffee, noodles, corn dog and cereal. I love the visual of the interaction between the different items in each dish - the milk swirling in the coffee and splashing out at the viewer in the cereal, and the ketchup and mustard dripping down the sides of corn dog. All of these placement decisions enhance the photographs. Without these little extras, the photographs would be boring, motionless, another Instagram of a half eaten meal from some "teen photographer." But Galton's photographs draw you in, they make you hungry and even make you feel like you are there with the subject, about to take a big bite or sip!

Source: ifunny