Fall 2013_A#3 Food Industry Photography SAMPLE IMAGES

Fall 2013_A#3 Food Industry Photography

Fall 2013_A#3 Food Industry Photography

I will use the stage to allow me to shoot straight down on the floor without the use of elaborate scaffolding or ladders. The large softbox will be set at a 45 degree angle on the main floor offstage and it will allow me to set the light source level or a little higher than the food.   I will use white and silver bounce cards to gently fill in any harsh shadows and also to bring details, ultimately adding more color and texture to the image. The bounce cards are also important because you should rarely be shooting into direct sunlight. I want to shoot with the aperture wide open to deliver shallow depth of field and isolate the food in the frame. Maybee I can achieve a good bokeh intentionally blurring areas of the image and focusing in the main area of the plate. I will bring a zoom and a prime lens that can open wide and try something with both. I will shoot at 100 ISO to get maximum quality.

Fall 2013 A#2 Outdoor Editorial Portrait

                           

Taken at Dawson college on October 5th 2013.

            Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-105mm zoom lens at ISO/100, f/9.0, 1/80 sec.

DAWSON COLLEGE FINE ART ALUMNIE NATALIE NARDOZZA LOOKS BACK:

Natalie is now in her third year at Concordia University Fine Arts Program. Her major is in Painting & Drawing.  She considers her Dawson College Fine Art education to be the solid base of her art. 

She started off at Dawson College with only her raw talent. As a student, she acquired new skills along with all the necessary knowledge and confidence to pursue her aspiration. 

Natalie has published her first graphic novel “Dream Catchers” in 2011. It is a story that is about the life of a high school teen that just happens to have a wide range of fears. From spiders to heights and more, Al can’t avoid the nickname kids gave him in school…”Chicken Al”.  Things start getting weird for Al when Skelette and Misère, the two new kids at school tell Al they are Dream Catchers and they are there to help Al get over her fears before the monsters haunting her nightmares get out of control.

Natalie is presently working on her next novel. She considers her Dawson College training as time and effort well spent that enabled her to become the self-assured Artist/Entrepreneur that she is today. She markets her art online and at conventions. You can sample some of her work at

 http://alexisneo.deviantart.com/

More Images and how different settings gives different results

                           This picture at ISO/100   40mm    f/7.1     and 1/250sec.

                            Same pose as above but at f/9 and 1/200sec.

                           A different pose at   ISO/100    30mm,   f/9   1/80sec.

                  With the back light to the left   ISO/100    35mm,   f/9   1/200sec.

           

   Another concept. Overcast sky, one light at ISO/200 85mm  f/5.6   1/200sec.
       

                                This one at ISO/200   85mm   f/8   1/200sec.

This is how I saw it....

I felt quite satisfy with the result of that first try at what I was trying to achieve. But of course the first time you try something it is more a discovery process, the second time you quite know where you are going and on the third time you really are starting to get the exact result that you are looking for. So I will try to do it again soon.  What I really liked about it is the artistry that comes with adding lights. After the “official” starting point with the right numbers of ISO/100, f/7.1 and 1/200sec. you can see that by modifying those settings, changing the position of the lights, the model and the camera you achieve different results. The fact that we started with a bright sunshine and ended up with an overcast sky also altered the picture. I used two lights and a Nikkor 18-105 lens for the wall shots, one light and a Sigma 85mm fix lens for the garden shots. This type of photography also confuses the auto settings of the post-processing software so all adjustments have to be done manually.

A#2 Outdoor portrait