Achieving Great Photos for Cakes & Sugar Flowers

[kmac]

I am embarking on setting up a business/facebook page etc and I believe great photos are essential for any business.


Here is a photo, which I would like to achieve with my photos but do not know how to:





I have a fuji digital camera and photoshop cs5. Any tips, suggestions and guidance to tutorials will be appreciated.

 

[Tom Mann]

We'll be happy to try to help you improve your photography, but we currently don't have any idea whether your problem is in the area of lighting, exposure, composition, color balance, equipment choice / usage, post processing, etc.

The best way to proceed is for you to post a few of your own photos that you are not satisfied with, and then we can logically triage the weak points and go through possible solutions to each, one by one.

Best regards,

Tom M

 

[Tom Mann]

Also, FWIW, I don't consider the image that you posted as a good example to be in the upper tiers of product photography. For example, it's almost shadowless and the background is so bright as to pull my eye away from the main subject. These flaws detract from its eye-grabbing appeal, particularly when the photo is displayed at a small size.

A shortcoming like this in the lighting is tedious / difficult to correct in post processing, but one can get a bit of the eye-appeal back by increasing the contrast and saturation somewhat (see attached).

Cheers,

Tom M

 

[MikeMc]

Tom is spot on as normal. I also would comment on the type...looks lost, too small, and ....boring. I would split things up ....

message and site separate, not equal so use different size and color to "sell the Chef" Website needs to be somewhere,

but spread them out a bit

As I taught many years back before digital....think before and while shooting, see what is on the film, think what you want, or need,

keep moving and thinking, and film was cheap...Digital means no excuses! Its not the "box" or software,

but your idea so look at every source you can