As weird or inappropriate as the title suggests. Food porn has nothing to do with sexuality. According to the always useful site - wiki, "Food Porn is a glamourized spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials."
Well in layman terms, it is just food portrayed very nicely in photos. After an hour long lecture by our dear teachers on the basics of food photography, it was time to get down to work. Unlike my peers who had lots of props readied. The few of us went to Mcdonalds to settle our selection of food.
Here's a few photos of mine to show how I ended up with my final desired photo.
As we all know, burgers from Mcdonalds look totally different form their photos in advertisements. One will always wonder what happened to all the lettuce, fresh burger bun, plus thick and juicing patties. Well of course the photos always have a disclaimer: Photos displayed are for illustration purposes only.
I had the idea of trying to bring out the essence of fast food among students. We have it while doing of our work, or when skimming tons of readings in school. The photo below belongs to one of the few trials I had. The placement was not very ideal, the empty Mcflurry (extra prop) overshadowed the main item for the photo. Note, I tried to sprinkle some water onto the cover to make it look like it was cold haha.
The second photo displayed a greater depth of field, look at how the tip of the pen contrasted to the top in terms of focus. The photo below was another idea Mrs Stevenson gave. The burger bun was glazed with some olive oil to make it look shinier.
And finally, here below is my last photo, which is considered the better shot one compared to the rest. I tried to arrange the items in a triangular manner and had them take up about 2/9 each of the full photo. My peers did a much better job as they came really well prepared, I really learned a lot through their work and my own trials. =)
Sien Long Signing Off
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