Sushi

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."- Dolly Parton

This is the last picture I shot for my object lighting class. I wanted to do another food shoot, but with something prepared instead of fresh food, which is what I had done before. I had a lot of fun with this shoot, and the sushi was absolutely delicious!

Outdoor Portrait

"A photograph is memory in the raw." ~Carrie Latet

You might remember Clayton from another post I did. I had the pleasure of working with him again for my portrait portfolio. I wanted to do just a casual, outdoor portrait of him at his house.

This was shot with a D300, 80-200mm lens, at ISO 400, at 1/80 and f/4.

Fresh Food

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." -Lewis Grizzard

This is another picture I shot for my Biocommunications Object Lighting portfolio. I have become really interested in photographing food. For some reason, in a design sense, food really speaks to me. I'm really looking forward to shooting food more often, and want to start trying more studio setups to look like a kitchen or dinner table. I also want to shoot some simple prepared food.



This is a picture of my setup. The fork and tomato are between the two white boards. I held the fork up vertically with a large studio clamp. I originally wanted a white background (hence the white backdrop,but found that I liked it better on the black background because it made both the metal and the color of the tomato pop.

I used a Nikon D300, 60mm macro lens, at ISO 200, 1/50 sec., and f/29.