you know often you get some food served to you and you think how the hell am i going to shoot this
but you have to somehow do it possibly the worst things are curries
curries are always shockers to shoot i've done a couple of curry books
and you know you have to try and make them look great and its hard you know it is a lot of
often a lot of oil
very reflective
very glisteney very shiny
but you know often a lot of very brown food
this is quite a challenging dish
its a pie
a big brown pie and the
challenge with this because its quite a dry pie because its all very similar in colour
but also
with a pie you have got to get into
the
cakes as well you have got to get inside it so you can see all the details
of whats going in to that pie otherwise its just a
you know is just topping
or a siding
you need to see whats in there all the details so
it's a slight challenge with your daylight you know you really
have got to get the light right in to that
crack of the pie that you've made so rather than them reflecting from the side as i was doing
i'm reflecting directly as you can see directly into the pie
you can see how it changes even with that gentle light it changes so much
by just little movements
food stylists are very good at playing with herbs and garnishes dressings things like that
give interest you know
a piece of
lettuce might look rather dull on its own
but if its slightly back lit with some beautiful dressing
maybe some oil and vinegar maybe some pomegranate juice or something like that
and that's were food stylists are clever they learn all these little tricks
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