Cupcake! Behind-the-Scenes
March 12, 2008 4 Comments
We’ve photographed all sorts of food & drink here at yorkrules (Why? Your guess is almost as good as mine.) If you’ve never joined us for a Supper Club (The Breakfast Club meets thirtysomething meets dinner with friends,) which are regularly interrupted for content-acquiring photo shoots, here’s a brief look behind-the-scenes.
Our living room is the photo studio, and the lighting is whatever’s available. (In this case, it’s the afternoon sun modified with a silk and a reflector.)
Julie My Love is the cook (and bartender, when appropriate,) as well as the food stylist. Here she positions the cupcake to best represent its artfully-applied vanilla frosting and rainbow sprinkles. Once the subject’s set, it’s not uncommon for her to work as my unpaid camera assistant.
I shoot my fine art work, such as L.A. Rock Fan and The Anthony Project, with a Canon EOS-1Ds digital SLR camera, but for projects like this, I use a Canon PowerShot G9. Of the 10 or so frames I shot of the cupcake, here is the image I chose to use.
Back on my computer (a circa-2003 homebuilt PC running on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred,) I open the raw image file in Photoshop for a little digital refinement. A tweak here, a crop there and —voila!— more new yorkrules content, fresh-baked for you!
4 Comments
I have two observations.
First, it must be a slow day on the news wire.
Second, only you York could make the photographing of a cupcake interesting.
Yes and thank you, Scotty P.
Nice tweaking.
Thank you, MorningStar!