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.
dassana
congratulations to all the winners.
Vidya
Thanks a lot for choosing my picture..Im so so happy!!!
Congrats to all the winners!!
IshitaUnblogged
Wonderful 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!
Fahad Khan (@Pharaoh
For 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!:-)
Shri
Beautiful Kankana!
Keep Calm and Eat On
Congratulations 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!
Tamara
congrats to the winners, entries are amazing!
Nami | Just One Cookbook
Congrats 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. 😉
Paz
Congratulations to all the winners!!!
Nandita
Congrats to the winners!!! The pictures are all awesome!! 🙂
Rosa
Congrats to the winners! The pictures are amazing.
Cheers,
Rosa
Egle
WOW!! 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!
Reem | Simply Reem
Congrats!!!
Well deserved pics.. Yayy to all the winners...
Tika Hapsari Nilmada
Wow....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 !
Vishakha
Well deserved winners. Congratulations to all:)
Grishma @Zaikazabard
Congratulations to all the winners! Beautiful photography n styling 🙂
Kankana, I love the last one the most that The Host picked 🙂
Arch
Those pictures are really a treat ! Absolutely beautiful...Congratulations to all the winners
jeyashrisuresh
Congrats to all the winners
Nisha
citrus salad is my fav pic among these.
great job, everyone, congrats!
Archana
Wow..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.