now Ginny is creating this dish
from a certain angle and you can see the way she looks at the dish
shes creating that with a photo in mind
now if she was standing over it like this i would be thinking right shes creating
something graphic that should be shot from above
but i tend to watch the way she is doing it and the way she's plating up because
shes looking at it at the best angle
i wouldn't then shoot it that way because then of course
Ginny is not looking at it that way
when i'm shooting dishes and um...
your very aware you have to get all the angles right and get everything straight
and normal
but quite often if you stick a
tall bottle in the background you know ether its a wine bottle or a glass bottle because of perspective and
the way
the lens is focused on the food quite often
the bottle will look like its shooting out of your picture
we've got a little little
pile of coins in our
pocket
and uh...
you just slip a couple of coins if something looks a bit
and is always
you always have to sort of
you have to bend it further than you think
just by sticking it a couple of coins
underneath the bottle
everything it's straight wonky straight
I've taking one of my um my backgrounds here and literally
just resting it against the stand but
I've just popped it in to create a horizon really within the shot
my feeling is with this dish its floating islands its going to be quite
tall hopefully
but have little layers as well of custards creams or whatever
and little floating islands of meringue on top so i thought i probably want to be quite low
and my brief is to keep this very sort of soft and grey and blue and stuff
so all i have done is
added the board to the back to create a little horizon within the image
so its a nice soft
almost theatrical background really
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