Plums, anyone?
This past week, a few of us gathered over at Tea Junction in Dubai to dabble in photography. The goal was to have an informal setting for people interested in photography/food photography (without necessarily being photographers) take a picture of a mystery food item - told to us at the venue - and use the settings around us to come up with 2-3 core shots that we'd share with the group. This could then lead to some feedback, suggestions and a general sharing of ideas. We also worked on a couple of concepts in pairs.
If, for some insane reason, you missed the title, then well, the mystery item was a plum. Well, okay, plums.
I went with three different colored plums so that I'd have contrast - a dark one, a mixed one, and a fairly light one. Unfortunately I couldn't get the whole 'journey of the plum' idea done well, although others were more successful [links will be posted soon]. My idea was to go with one very traditional food shot, one random one, and one hopefully somewhere in between.
To start with - and knowing my love for iced tea - I picked up a Boston Iced Tea (ie, Iced Tea with cranberry juice) since I knew the color symmetry would help. So the opening shots were very cookbook-like-traditional.
