Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

(Tina Meador) #1

80 food PhoTogrAPhY: from snAPshoTs To greAT shoTs


Poring Over the Picture


One of my favorite breakfast meals


is eggs benedict, so I decided to


cook it up and photograph it.


Instead of using Canadian bacon for


this dish, I used traditional bacon,


since that is how I like to prepare it.


I also added some bright, beautiful


asparagus to the background to


balance the colors of the eggs


benedict in the foreground.


For this photograph, I used a
white, textured tabletop, along
with a white plate and napkin
for a clean look. The white in the
scene also balances with the color
of the poached egg on the plate.

The asparagus was blanched
in boiling water to bring out
its bright-green qualities and
add color to the photograph.
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