Matthew Lemon Wedding Photography

Bread

Bread is universally accepted as a good thing; we’ve have lived off it for thousands of years. It’s basic, it’s cheap and it smells great when its fresh.  It looks great too.

As this batch of freshly-made rolls cooled on top of the oven, out came the 40D, the 70-200 f4 lens and the 580EXII with a Lumiquest Promax diffuser attached.

Using an ever-so-cheap poverty wizard to get the flash off the camera, I got some nice lighting effects by placing the 580 in various positions around the kitchen, eventually making it look as though the shots were taken in something more like natural light rather than IKEA tungsten lamps at 7pm on an early winter’s evening. In total I took about thirty shots, but these are my favourites.

To get the shallow depth of field, I shot at f4 from near enough the Minimum Focusing distance (we have a pretty small kitchen).

The files were processed in a either Lightroom or DxO (which I am testing) and then taken into Photoshop for further work, mainly adjusting the colour balance to tone down the dominant red, which for some reason I omitted to do in the RAW convertors, and finally sharpening using the Unsharp Mask.

I like the way they came out.  They were really tasty too – thanks Mrs Lemon!

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 7:19 am and is filed under Blog and tagged with food, light, lightroom, photos, photoshop, processing, workflow. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.