Squidward
03-03-2008, 08:49 PM
Here is a picture I took of a plate of crepes that I took for a friend of mine who is opening a restaurant. Unfortunately, this was the only good picture that I took that day. My cousin took quite a few pictures, too, and my buddy ended up using this one along with three or four pictures from my cousin.
Food is not the easiest thing to photograph and I realized this going into this. I was shooting my D70 in manual mode as the old 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor does not meter on the D70. The lamp used is a simple fourescent bulb in a cheapo reflector clamped to one of the poster boards used as the backdrop on the left side. We used three pieces of black posterboard as back drop, taped together to form the corner of a box that we were shooting into. This was shot handheld, BTW, at 1/50 sec at about f/5.6 or f/8. No, I did not eat this one as I ate the crepes that I shot just before this one and I didn't need the calories. This photograph was blown up to 24X36 for use in the restaurant. This picture is straight from the camera, resized to be posted here. The thing is that I was using the D70 to try to get an idea of what the pictures were going to look like that I was taking with a tripod mounted F4s but those pictures did not come out right and they decided not to use any of those. Personally, I believe that the automatic processing machine overcorrected the color and that was the complaint but that's besides the point.
Food is not the easiest thing to photograph and I realized this going into this. I was shooting my D70 in manual mode as the old 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor does not meter on the D70. The lamp used is a simple fourescent bulb in a cheapo reflector clamped to one of the poster boards used as the backdrop on the left side. We used three pieces of black posterboard as back drop, taped together to form the corner of a box that we were shooting into. This was shot handheld, BTW, at 1/50 sec at about f/5.6 or f/8. No, I did not eat this one as I ate the crepes that I shot just before this one and I didn't need the calories. This photograph was blown up to 24X36 for use in the restaurant. This picture is straight from the camera, resized to be posted here. The thing is that I was using the D70 to try to get an idea of what the pictures were going to look like that I was taking with a tripod mounted F4s but those pictures did not come out right and they decided not to use any of those. Personally, I believe that the automatic processing machine overcorrected the color and that was the complaint but that's besides the point.