It was such a pleasure to be a part of this food photography challenge which started way back in 2005 and is still running strong after so many years. No such event can ever be successful without enthusiastic participants. So, a big big Thank You to all the 65 bloggers for taking time out to send in your beautiful entries. Also, a huge Thank You to my lovely talented Judges who took time out of their busy schedules to help me decide the winners. It was not easy taks to choose just 6 winners out of so many beautiful food photos.
Before I announce the winners, let’s learn these tips shared by the amazing judges. I am a huge fan of their work and their blog clearly shows the knowledge they have when it comes to food photography.
1. Learn to look at the light. What does it do, when is the light at its best and how can you bend the light to work for you? Try and take a dish and make the light shine on it from all angles so you can see what would work best. I find that light from the front is hardly ever a good lighting.
2. Do not shoot in direct sunlight unless it is at the end of the day and the light is not so harsh anymore.
3. Look at food photos and try to understand where the light is coming from. You learn a lot from looking at the beautiful photos you see around you.
4. Make use of reflectors; bouncing the light back onto your subject can – in a lot of cases – dramatically improve your photos, reducing dark shadows in areas you don’t want to have them. Always make sure that your reflector is neutral in color. So white or silver. I hardly find gold working for food photos. Reflectors can be expensive but they can also be really cheap. If you use foam board, a piece of white paper of even a white napkin might do the trick. One of the advantages of working with daylight is that you immediately see what you’re doing!
5. Shoot in raw. If you can and your camera has the ability; learn to use raw. It does work!
6. At the core of all photography lies subject, composition and lighting. If those three things are poor, no amount of post-processing work will fix it. It won’t matter what your aperture, f/stop or ISO is if you don’t have an interesting subject, good composition, and great lighting. Without these, a photo will lack impact.
7. Photographing food need your honesty. If you are honest, the styling and creativity that you are trying to frame would truly show your heart and art.
8. Try to run a bit loose in styling to make the picture look natural or not overly organized.
Whenever we participate in any challenge, we wish to be recognized and we wish to win. But we should never give up hope, we should keep trying and keep getting better. Thank you all once again for participating in this event.
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
– Jason Mraz
Pamela Rodríguez – Uno De Dos – Cheese flan
Egle – zaidimu aikstele – Dark Chocolate Brownie Cake with Raspberry Goat Cheese Swirl
Tanvi Srivastava – Sinfully Spicy – Indian Black Pepper Chicken
Prerna Singh – Indian Simmer – Spring Onions
Vidya – Kurryleaves– Spicy Chicken Curry with Rice Dumpling (Kozhi Pidi)
Tika Hapsari Nilmada – Cemplang Cemplung – Papaya with squeezed lemon juice
Camera : Canon Rebel XS
Congrats to all the winners and many Thanks to Andrew of Spittoon Extra for letting me become a part of this event.
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Archana
July 2, 2012 at 8:29 PMWow..Congratulations to all the winners. All the photos looks really nice. I am sure it was a real tough job to select the winners. Congrats once again to all.
Nisha
July 2, 2012 at 8:55 PMcitrus salad is my fav pic among these.
great job, everyone, congrats!
jeyashrisuresh
July 2, 2012 at 9:11 PMCongrats to all the winners
Arch
July 2, 2012 at 9:13 PMThose pictures are really a treat ! Absolutely beautiful…Congratulations to all the winners
Grishma @Zaikazabard
July 2, 2012 at 9:16 PMCongratulations to all the winners! Beautiful photography n styling 🙂
Kankana, I love the last one the most that The Host picked 🙂
Vishakha
July 2, 2012 at 9:31 PMWell deserved winners. Congratulations to all:)
Tika Hapsari Nilmada
July 2, 2012 at 10:04 PMWow….thanks for choosing my photo, Kankana 🙂 It’s great to have my photo up there. Congrats to all winners.
Thank you for being such a wonderful host and thanks to all judges. Don’t forget to submit your photo on DMBLGiT July, I’ll be the host !
Reem | Simply Reem
July 2, 2012 at 10:44 PMCongrats!!!
Well deserved pics.. Yayy to all the winners…
Egle
July 2, 2012 at 11:11 PMWOW!! SO happy to be in such a great company! And whaaaat? An Overall Second Winner?? This is week is just getting better and better. Thank you guys!
Rosa
July 2, 2012 at 11:16 PMCongrats to the winners! The pictures are amazing.
Cheers,
Rosa
Nandita
July 2, 2012 at 11:23 PMCongrats to the winners!!! The pictures are all awesome!! 🙂
Paz
July 3, 2012 at 12:30 AMCongratulations to all the winners!!!
Nami | Just One Cookbook
July 3, 2012 at 12:59 AMCongrats to the winners! And thank you so much for all the tips you shared. I’m trying really really hard to learn about lighting right now as well. Hopefully I can join this DMBLGiT one day. 😉
Tamara
July 3, 2012 at 2:32 AMcongrats to the winners, entries are amazing!
Keep Calm and Eat On
July 3, 2012 at 4:13 AMCongratulations to the winners and thank you Kankana and the judges. It goes without saying that this is a beautiful learning process and a wonderful way to discover bloggers who totally rock it!
Shri
July 3, 2012 at 4:44 AMBeautiful Kankana!
Fahad Khan (@Pharaoh
July 3, 2012 at 5:09 AMFor one,I love your blog/site ‘s banner!:-) Very pretty!
Thank you for sharing all the Food Photography tips,it is always nice to learn!As far as I have learnt till now – the subject,the composition don’t require as much work,are not as complex rather,as much as Lighting is.
The pictures are very beautiful and absolutely professional!I particularly like the second and the fifth ones a lot!:-)
IshitaUnblogged
July 3, 2012 at 5:27 AMWonderful Kankana… and Congratulations to all the winners! I follow Anja’s blog. She’s from Fooderati and I simply loved this particular recipe of hers and the image – the citrus salad with pomegranate and mint.
Thanks for sharing the tips – it’s a life-save for a self-taught photographer such as me!
Vidya
July 3, 2012 at 7:22 AMThanks a lot for choosing my picture..Im so so happy!!!
Congrats to all the winners!!
dassana
July 3, 2012 at 8:24 AMcongratulations to all the winners.
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July 3, 2012 at 9:10 AMI woke up to this mail!So glad to be amongst the incredibly gorgeous puctures.Congratulations to all! Thanks for being a lovely host dear!
P.S. – This will always be special because it’s the first time ever I participated in DMBLGIT & won ..yay!!
Rose ( Magpie's Recipes)
July 3, 2012 at 12:21 PMSimply gorgeous pictures and what great tips! This was a really good month K- awesome entries and you did an awesome job as host! Loved meeting the fabulous and incredibly talented judges through you too 🙂
Uno de Dos
July 3, 2012 at 11:44 PMWooow!!Thanksss, thanksss, thankssssss!!!!!
Congratulations to all the winners 🙂
mjskit
July 4, 2012 at 8:37 AMCongratulations to all of the winners! What beautiful photography!
Jennifer (Delicieux)
July 4, 2012 at 5:53 PMCongratulations to all the winners!!! So many wonderfully talented people.
Deepa
July 5, 2012 at 7:05 PMCongrats to all the winners….Anja’s and Tika’s pic are so pretty
Magic of Spice
July 7, 2012 at 12:58 PMCongratulations to all of the winners! I also took a look at the submissions, and they are all fantastic 🙂
What Liberty Ate
July 9, 2012 at 12:50 AMCongratulation to all winners and also to the jury for choosing them! They have indeed, produced such beautiful photographs!
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July 10, 2012 at 10:32 AMEach one of the winners is Gorgeous gorgeous! Congratulations to all the winners..
Love the host’s choice, kana..