From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Storytelling through Photography
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Food photography on location
From the course: Douglas Kirkland on Photography: Storytelling through Photography
Food photography on location
Male Speaker 1: Being, being a very rectangular state, I will. Douglas: The most important part of any restaurant is, of course, ultimately the food. Basically, what I decided I should do was really move our studio to the restaurant. A studio's in the photographer's head to a large degree, especially if you really are resourceful and can make things happen. One of the things I was thinking of was the white, just floating on white. Female Speaker 1: Mm-hm. Yeah. Douglas: That might be where we begin. So one of the ideas I had was using a sheet of plastic. We used to call it milk glass. What I wanted to do is be able to light underneath it. I want it to be able to glow and I want to have control over the amount of light coming up. Move it a little camera-right again, the whole light. Yep. Thank you. But tip it down so it's not hitting the glass itself if you can, please. We put a second light on the background against the wall, so we could shoot down or on an angle, and still get this…
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