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Getting to shoot the good light in a bakery

Getting to shoot the good light in a bakery

From the course: Travel Photography: Portrait of a City Neighborhood

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Getting to shoot the good light in a bakery

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Male: So I'm at the corner of Grant Avenue and Union, right in the kind of epicenter, heart of North Beach. And behind me is the Italian French Bakery. And I'm a sucker for bakeries. And I walked into this bakery, saw some beautiful baked goods in the front, but then my eye caught what was going on behind. And it's where they bake the bread. This is an all in one place. They bake it and they sell it and you just don't find places like this very often. And not only was it great but they're baking right there but it is a beautiful room with a high skylight, natural light coming in. This place was made to photograph. I started off, I had my 105 macro lens on. took a couple of shots of some machinery that was really old an the light was playing really nicely off of it. Then I switched over to this my favorite wide angle lens, it's 14 to 24 millimeter, because I wanted to really. Capture the action, cap-capture the, the baker as he is making the actual product. So I switched to this lens…

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