I decided to do a quick food shoot again. I shot tethered, which I am becoming addicted to. Kristi held a gridded flash because I was using my one and only tripod to shoot with.

This is the set-up, minus the camera of course.

This the pick of the shots, I thought about doing a whole bunch of pictures showing the creative process and the interesting mistakes and the bland mistakes, but decided it was too much work.

Critiques more than welcome, as usual.

A food distributer in Sarasota, Florida wants me to come down and spend at least two days shooting some of their products. So, I thought I should develop some semblance of competence in food photography. My dear friends, having expertise in the photography has benefits, but even I didn’t realize that they might include trips to Florida and a possible day at the beach.

I shot this by using a gridspot on flash, behind and to the left of the setup. A general rule of food photography seems to shoot for as much texture as possible. The gridspot, or simply called a grid, tightened the spread of the flash to give a harder light behind the food and therefore, reveal more texture. Thanks Nic, for your tips.