Phase one

Soup Photography

After researching other food photographers and gathering an idea of style appears to be popular in food photography or work well at the moment, we were then split off into groups once again and given a food to photograph. Our group was given soup. 

These images were my best images which came out of the shoot however on reflection, i think to have made the food look more appealing i could have focused the image more on the bowl of soup itself. Personally i feel they are both good images but my eyes as a viewer tend to be drawn to the other objects such as the ingredients next to the soup. When the whole idea or aim is to be selling the soup itself and making it look appetising. 

in the image below i chose to crop more into the image to try and make the bowl of soup more of a main focus. I think just a simple adjustment such as this definitely works a lot better. 

In order to capture these images my group had to work together in buying and finding all of the equipment and food. We used old planks of wood placed on the floor and an old chopping board as the background. To keep in touch with this old warn theme we bought a bowl from the market and used a rustic looking spoon and knife. The soup we photographed was Butternut soup, we bought soup, herbs, crutons, garlic, cream and a butternut vegetable. Some of my group chose to place half the butternut vegetable in the image however i felt it looked too over powering next to the bowl of soup which i knew had to be the main focus. 

I like the way in which the herbs are scattered and nothing in the image is perfectly placed. I feel like fits in with the theme of the rustic background and resembles a lot of the food photography styles I've been researching.