Just pasta

Pear & co

I am trying to make my dark photos look a little bit washed out and moody, not shore I have achieved it or if I like it at all...but I keep experimenting :) 

Bread & co

I am really fascinated by the the dark food photography and I am trying to figure out how to take the photos and later how to edit them in order to resemble at least a little to dark food photography or chiaroscuro.  Below are my attempts at this style of photography :)

Onions & co

I am still experimenting with my grey backdrop, unfortunately I don't have a cooked meal to photograph so I have to use wathever I have in the fridge...onions and smoked homemade sausage for now :)

As for the photo below, I am afraid the colour of the meat turned out a little bit too saturated...the meat was smoked and missed the "fresh meat" colur so I changed the hue a little towards magenta and I might have exagerated a bit :))) Anyway....I am still learning.

And the garden yarn seems to end up in every photo I take today :)

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Update: I have decided to reduce the saturation a little bit, and using the invert layer mask in Photoshop, I have changed only the saturation of the magenta, the rest of the picture remained the same........but still, it is to saturated for my taste.....

Just pasta

Grey wood backdrop and some props

Finally I also have a grey wood backdrop! I wished for it for such a  looong time :)  The wood panels are from oak wood and their colour is greyish beacuse of their age, they are pretty old, not that I mind, I was aiming for grey.  I found them in my in-laws barn and had my husband (best in the world by the way :))) shorten them a little in order for them to fit in the trunk. 

Today I decided to take some pictures using these panels as backdrop and I have to admit the wooden texture looks pretty awesome in photos :) The wood panels are pretty freacking heavy but 100% worth the trouble. I have also posted some unedited photos from the shooting while deciding what props to use.

I started only with a bowl of hazelnuts and some walnuts...

... continued with a napkin...

...added a nutcracker tool, some hazelnut shells and a hammer in the background....

...and finished it off with a beige garden yarn.

Hope you like the end product ;)

Meat & co

I have been home for the winter holidays and took a few pictures of the homemade sausages, speck and ribs hanging in the smokehouse. I brought back some wooden panels that I intend to use as backdrop for my foodie pictures.  The panels are made of oak tree and are pretty old, so instead of wooden brown their colour is greyish and perfect for food photography.  Can't wait to try them out, looks like I am sticking to my grey backdrop afterall :) 

Potatoes & Bacon

I am sticking to my grey background, I know it's just a phase and I know it's just a matter of time until I switch to white or wooden backdrop, but until then I try to put to use my grey props as much as I can. There is not much to tell about these pictures, I tried to style the bacon in order to give the edges a wavy look and I sprinkled some dried oregano flakes on the potatoes. That's it for the styling part. Regarding the post editing I did the following: cropped the picture (I almost always crop my photos), sharpened the pic and reduced the noise, enhanced the colors (I changed the hue of the red color in order to be more magenta and increased the saturation of yellow), using the adjustment brush, in Lightroom, I faked some light coming in from the left, as for the camera settings I used f/3.2, so I thought I should blur the edges of the picture a little more, the ISO was 100 and I chose Aperture Priority. 

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