Quantcast
Channel: F-stop examples – Confident Camera Moms
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 3

YUMM!!!

$
0
0

Have you ever tried to take good photos in poor restaurant light? It can be frustrating but it is fun to take photos at your favorite places so hopefully  you will pick up a few tips today.

This is a great yogurt place just in case you need to add another one to your list!

img_7639 

Photography is all about ‘light’ and what your camera does with it. So when you get to a place with strange or low light you have to quickly adjust your settings to get the shot. Remember we don’t like to use the  ‘on camera’ flash…it is not very flattering to anything out there and I recommend only using it in emergencies.

I set the ISO to 640 and the f stop to 2.8. I got by with a shutter speed of 1/100 because I wasn’t shooting a moving object. The slower  shutter speed allowed me to keep the ISO a little lower and resulted in a less grainy photo. Notice that with this shot the low f stop meant a real blurry background  as I got closer to the subject. So just a little bit of this photo is actually in focus the rest is thrown out of focus: a shallow depth of field. The further away you get the deeper your depth of field and more of your subject is in focus.

img_7625

Photographing food is really fun because the colors are rich and…it doesn’t move!

img_7607

You can also position the food to get the best light possible!

Are you getting hungry yet?! Melissa sure enjoyed her creation! Shooting at an angle allowed me to get my daughter AND the dessert in the photo – up close shots can be tricky but once you turn the camera a bit you will be amazed at what you can fit in the frame.

Another tip: teens are usually happy when food is in the picture! A prepared camera mom will get remember to get those rare shots!

img_7617

img_7621

We completely enjoyed our yogurt outing….this is a photo- story for sure!

img_7637

Look all around … I was intrigued by the lights in this place!

img_7606

This was actually hard to photograph – – I ended up with a much faster exposure time to get the detail of the light fixture. 1/800.  If I had a slow shutter speed I would have had too much light coming in the camera and the shot would have just been a white ball. Because there was enough light for the shot, with my camera directly pointing at the light, I was able to lower the ISO to 400.

Bon Appetite!


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 3

Trending Articles