Food Photography

In order to create tasty-looking food photographs, follow these ten tips:

1. Use a simple background that contrasts the food.
2. Adjust the white balance so that meat doesn't get a bluish tint.
3. Take the picture during the day with natural light and avoid the flash button.
4. Use a tripod so that the photograph remains still.
5. Have nice, little details such as clean spoons and plates to make it look enticing.
6. Zoom in close to capture interesting detail.
7. Cut up small bites so that you can see the inside textures.
8. Take photos using different angles.
9. Include a prop like a beverage or a special plate.
10. Think about a shallow depth-of-field. 

Cool Culinary Art:

Surrealism: Part Three: Painting

Surrealism: Part Two (Technique)

Scale

Transparency

Dislocation

Transformation

Levitation

Juxtaposition



Surrealism: Part One

Surrealism is a style of art that combines realistic and fantasy elements to create a dream-like image. 
There are 6 elements of Surrealism:

1. Transparency- making something see-through

2. Scale- making an object larger or smaller than usual.

 3. Levitation- making objects float.

4. Transformation- Having something change into something else.

 5. Dislocation- removing an object from its usual place.

6. Juxtaposition- putting two objects together that usually don't go together.

Pencil vs. Camera

Midterm: Superhero

In this picture I used two different custom tools for the blobs of paint and dodged and burned all of them. I also dodged and burned in some areas like the palette where it needed some extra highlights/shadows. I used the blur tool for the cape because that area was tricky. I used Transform tools such as Perspective, Skew, and Warp for the palette and the cape so it would look as though she were flying. I made the background grayscale and in the area where the paint touched the background I adjusted the color balance and used an artistic filter (I think it was paint daubs?). For the text I used the Warp Text tool to make it wavy and awesome like a superhero's name should be. I have twelve layers even though my screen shot has only ten. It was kind of tricky to get them all on one go, but the layers missing from the shot are the Building and the hidden document background that I colored blue just for contrast while I worked.

Mythological Creatures