Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm fond of both styles. The quick draw looking like it was done with a pocket camera. And the full focus perhaps sheet film style. With corrected perspective even. On 5/19/13 12:24 PM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > On May 18, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> As you or anyone who studied photography knows traditional table top >> photography gets full depth of field less so by stopping the lens all the >> way down to f 64 on a view camera but by tilting the front lens standard >> down so the plane of focus skims across the tops of your subjects. >> Otherwise with sheet film you'd never get much of the thing in focus. > > True. Though often with f:32 or 64 as well > >> In the past >> decade in food photography as in receipt books a style of photography has >> come in in witch the pix appear to be done with the authors kids or >> spouses >> point and shoot wide open. I assume its expense to have a pro >> photographer >> be with them for months at at time day and night as the recipes are put >> together. Its gotten so in many recipe books even real photographers >> imitate >> that armature snap shot look with better cameras simply by shooting wide >> open. But with no flash. If you Google food photography you'll still see >> plenty of shots with full depth of field as they've always been. > > In fact the current "trend" in food photography is the use of selective > focus; > to the point of using tilt/shift to take things out of focus rather than > bring > them into focus. > > Yes the classic approach is also used at least 50% of the time. > > But if you want to earn $$ in food photography today you'll need to be > able to > do both > and with a fairly accomplished use of lighting as well. > As always you also need to know how "fine food" actually "looks." > In my (midwest) market most of the restauranteurs and publication art > directors > are looking for the "selective focus" approach. > > One need only look to Gourmet, Epicurious, and Saveur to see what's > trending > month to month. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/