Since I bought the 60 cm octabox I have been taking photographs that I have fallen in love with, this tool improves the quality of light by 1000% and one of the things I have wanted to explore is taking photographs of food so I coordinated with a friend who works in a pizzeria so he let me take a couple of test photos at his location and today I share with you the results obtained in this photo session.
I chose to photograph a pizza because it is my favorite fast food so I had to honor it!
I started with a top-down photo, something very common in food photography:
Followed by a close up of the pizza, and as i don't have a macro lens I had to use a zoom lens and then crop in the edit:
This types of photo where the pizza is lifted is a classic!
For lighting I used a single point of light, my speed lite flash with a 60 cm octabox on one side of the pizza and to take the photos I used my Canon RP camera with a 24-105 lens at f/8.
In the following photo I wanted to highlight the pieces of pizza:
And to finish I wanted to take a photo as if I were going to bite the pizza.
To get this photo I had to connect my camera to the phone via Bluetooth and framing the photo was a little complicated but after several attempts I achieved the desired result!
Something I learned in this photo session is that to take photographs of food you have to work extremely fast because its optimal look only lasts a couple of minutes.
For the first time I take photographs of pizza, I feel super happy with the results, I know that in the future with practice I will be able to achieve better food photos!
wow the pizza is really delicious, the photo matches the real pizza