Southern Composition

Thanksgiving 2009: This year everything was perfect! It took some planning and cooking for 3 days before the big event but everything was timed perfect, wonderfully yummy, and looked the same! I have never really tried to take photos of food before so this was definetly a first. I read a 4 page article (for article click on post title "Cuisine") pre-photos from a cuisine photographer talking about lighting, perspective, camera angles, textures and backgrounds. This was also my first time using the Lighting adjustment tool in Adobe Elements as well as messing with background colors/perceptions. All in all I am quite happy with the photos for their ability to show the texture of the food, especially on the Turkey and Ham!!

LOCATION: My Kitchen

DATE/TIME: Nov. 26, 09 @ 4pm

SUBJECT: Cuisine, Thanksgiving

For my first experiment photo shoot I decided to get photos for my Christmas cards I have to send out soon. I did some Google-ing and really loved the style of many engagement photos so I began researching the style, composition, and content of engagement photos. So after looking through and reading about engagement photo styles here is my end result: I was really trying to experiment with perspective, reflections, my new tripod,  and my sweet doggie- which can be a challenge to photograph well because she's so squirmy!!