Jim Rickards wrote:
As this is the People forum, the food doesn't fit in. Anybody know which forum this should be posted in? (Yes, I know people eat food, but....)
it would fit in me! looks great!
J
I'm now hungry for sushi. Might look better with a different background instead of the white (I know that's what the customer wanted right?). Is that an eel avocado roll I spy in there? *yum yum*
If there is human meat in it, I don't care. ;D It looks so good I'm starving now. I'm gonna have to nom down some sushi after work to take care of this. Curse you and your good sushi photography!
The focus of attention should be the food. In your shots it is the background.
If I were running a sushi restaurant in Copenhagen, I'd want pictures that made the food attractive. These shots look like medical examiner pictures. No amount of sharpening or saturation will help.
My advice: rethink and reshoot. At least that way you'll get to taste more of the product
To stay OT for the OP - I think the rework with saturation looks better. I also agree that the white on white is tough.
I do have a question that was alluded to above. Which forum would be best for food / product images? I do a lot of imaging with spices of the world and have never posted them pm FM because I didn't know where they went...
Oddly enough, "City, Still life & Abstract" and "Lighting and Studio techniques" are the correct fora in which to post these images.
However, I just did a search, and there are only 2 entries in "City," and 1 entry in "Lighting," with the word "food" in the subject of the thread. (No, I did not look up specific types of food, including humans as food...)
SO, you're probably just as well to post here, because the people here love to offer opinions. Speaking of which, here are mine:
These pictures look "sterile" to me. The saturated ones look nicer, but there's a lack of context and contrasting elements in the images, and that effectively REMOVES the appetizing nature of the product.
Back in the 1970s, I swear food photographers were having a contest to see who could incpororate the most elements in an image, to the point where the food itself was merely incidental to the overall "mood" the photographer wanted to create. (Let's sell some coffee; so we'll have two skiers, in an Alpine lodge, with their cute sweaters, ski pants, the roaring fire, and -- oh look over there -- a small cup of coffee on the end table!) At least there was context for the product...
Lately (like in the last 10 years) the focus in food advertising has tended more toward the macro look like you're providing here, but still with some context so as to render the food attractive for a particular clientele.
Back to you -- I think your interests would be served by incorporating a few appropriate elements into the image, to provide the aforementioned context and contrast to the food itself. You might consider a bamboo mat, some chopsticks, a little bowl of wasabi and another of soy sauce, even some roe or seaweed crackers... but for heaven's sake don't go overboard and take us back to the 1970s.
Wauw - I am really (positively) surprised by all your feedback.
I will make me a nice cup of coffee soon and have a thorough look at all your comments and try and work on my PP skills now that I did not get the right exposure directly from the camera.
