Poached Eggs on Toast

Runny egg yolk is always fun to photograph, but you have to be quick in doing it. I usually use a trigger and set my camera on continuous shooting mode, in order to capture as many shots as I can of the runny egg yolk.  I didn't have to do too much editing either, just a little bit of color enhancing and cropping (I always crop my photos). And because yellow goes well with blue, at least in food photography, I transformed the temperature of my background into a colder one, therefore the bluish color.

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Colourful Salad

I've just realized that I am going through a grey phase, not depression or anything like that, but I've noticed that my backdrops and dishes I use for my food photography are mostly grey. I find that the grey background is really enhancing the colors of the food, hence I tend to use it a lot. 

I didn't think that I will use these cherry tomatoes in a photo again, I guess I have them for three weeks now, and they still look good, I cannot say the same thing about the taste, it felt like eating lemons instead of tomatoes. Lesson learned, next time I'll buy organic ones! 

As you can see in both pictures, the main light source seems to come from the left, which is not entirely true. The light came equally from both sides, but I tend to enhance the exposure on one side (in this case on the left),  in the post processing of the picture, to make the photo look a little bit more interesting. 

Also, I splashed a little water on the salad, in order to make it look more fresh (it is only noticeable in the picture above), and I styled the leaves carefully, one by one :) 

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Poached Eggs

Pictures of food look even more delicious if they express some movement, like this egg yolk running down the bread slices. If I decide to take a picture like this, with movement in it, I usually prepare the set beforehand, because I know that once I cut open the egg and the yolk starts tu run down I have only a few seconds to take some good shots. I used a trigger for this picture and with the other free hand I poured egg yolk from another poached egg in order to look creamier and to help it run down the side of the bread. If you look carefully, you can see the fine line off yolk in the upper part of the picture. 

The camera settings I used in the picture above are:

Exposure: 0.5s at f/3.2

Exposure Mode: Auto

Exposure Program: Aperture Priority

ISO: 100

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