Apples

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Or so they say. Well, how about a picture of one …. or 4. I had this idea in my head that I really wanted to take a photo of 4 apples, sitting in a row.

Here is the result. It’s not quite what I had pictured in my head, but it’s close. So how does one take photos of produce? Here are the simple steps I took to take this photo.

1. Buy apples – I don’t generally have apples on hand, so I had to go get some. These are from my favorite grocery store, Whole Foods. They are organic.
2. Find and prepare a place with the background you would like. It usually best for the background to be plain or it will distract from your object. In my case, I used the kitchen counter. In my head it was on a window sill with an open window. But I don’t have one of those at present so I went with what I had.
3. Prepare your object for the photo. Here I removed the stickers and washed the apples.
4. Set up your shot. Set the object in the configuration you want and get your camera out. I would recommend using a tripod for these shots.
5. Take your photos.
6. Try multiple configurations also – you may like another variation better then the one you had in mind.

For my shot, I didn’t use anything special for lighting. I just turned on the kitchen light. We will talk about lighting in another post

Posted in art,Featured,food,photography — by alicia on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 — Comments (0)

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