Today I’m here to tell you about Raquel Carmona’s Foodie. Culinary photography is a booming specialty thanks, above all, to blogs and HR. HHsecond. It is above all here, in the networks, that this genre has taken off to become what is today Pure gastronomic art.
Because gastronomic photography is pure art. Nothing is casual there, everything is meticulously chosen, from the ingredients, from the photographic material, from composition and light, to the history of the image.
- This book explains the whole process.
- Step by step.
- To turn your culinary photographs into pure magic Do we see it in detail?.
You, if you want to realize these amazing images that you’ve probably seen on social networks like Pinterest or Instagram, these images that invite you to want to eat those ingredients and dishes out there.
If you like to cook, go to the market, meticulousness is one of your qualities, you are patient, you appreciate the process of each photograph, and you are very perfectionist, it is your style of photography. And with this book and a lot of practice, the photos you dream of will be yours.
If you don’t have a sweet soul, you don’t like to cook, if style isn’t your thing, if you don’t have patience or if you don’t dare work in manual mode. Maybe the type of photography isn’t your thing?
Are you able to get all the juice out of your culinary photographs?Do you imply an uncontainable urge to eat your dishes to anyone who looks at your photos?Are you able to tell a story, to see the beauty of an image where others see nothing??
With practice, patience, perseverance and step by step, the author encourages you to enjoy the book without haste, as if it were a good dish, and in the end you will bring your culinary photographs to life.
The author dedicates this chapter to all the necessary adjustments to succeed in any photographic discipline, will explain in detail and in a playful and simple way everything related to the exposure triangle (opening, ISO and shutter speed), shooting modes, white balance and the pros and cons of working in RAW or JPEG.
Emphasize the importance of perseverance and practice as a basic learning tool and something we’ve often discussed: the importance of reading your camera instructions.
In addition, to encourage reading, he gives us a recipe at the end of each chapter (in this, the recipe for some delicious churros?).
The second fundamental theme for any type of photography is the equipment, here the author analyzes everything necessary as photographic equipment: types of cameras (compact cameras, Bridge, Evil, SLR or DSLR), types of sensors, or what is the clipping factor. and finally, tips for choosing your camera.
Of course, it will also talk about lenses, brightness, focal length, etc. And finally, the most common accessories: tripods and ball joints, triggers and cables, flashes, bags, backpacks, filters?
He keeps us one last very interesting stretch with his own team and the reason for his choices.
Oh, how about a granola recipe?
Well, you already know the most important scenarios and you have the right equipment, or at least you know which one you should have, now you will see the necessary accessories for your gourmet compositions, accessories (dishes, fabrics, wood or backgrounds) and tips such as choosing the ingredients.
You can’t miss certain notions of composition (third-party rule, negative space, lines and horizon, golden number, frame format, planes, angles, or focus types).
Everything is explained clearly and with beautiful example images
Oh, and recipe for spaghetti and putanesca at the end?
This part is essential for our image to put water in the observer’s mouth. In this chapter, the author analyzes the basic elements of gastronomic style: ingredients, plates or colors and their possible combinations.
In this type of photography, the creators are us from start to finish, so compose, place the protagonist, create an environment to explain your story through light, the human factor, the background . . . Anyway, all the decisions that lead you to the final picture are up to you.
Final recipe for strawberry pie? ?
No light, no picture. Therefore, this chapter is fundamental to any type of photography.
Here you will find the different types of light and concepts such as the diffusion of light, the direction or orientation of light, the distance and size of light, the color temperature (very important to represent the color of the food accurately), the color, the golden and blue hour and, finally, some tricks and exercises to master the light in gastronomic or gourmet photography.
How about a nice dish of Cordoba salmorejo to encourage reading?
The art of transmitting is the key to any image, and learning to explain stories through photography should be the primary goal of anyone dedicated to photography, regardless of discipline.
In this chapter, you will see how this is achieved through a step-by-step session, with photos, complete explanations of decisions, light choices, compositions, tricks, etc. , of preparing a chocolate cake.
A luxury to be able to witness step by step in the creation of each of the photos that appear in this chapter.
And of course, dessert chocolate cake recipe?
Being known and inspired through this social network is the goal of this seventh chapter.
Here you will recommend choosing a username, showing your best work, creating your own niche, consistency, hashtags, interaction, videos or the importance of stopping to analyze and, most importantly, the importance of being patient and persistent.
It also includes a section on image editing and design applications that you recommend most.
And, of course, the final recipe, this time of fluffy pancakes?
The image of any company is vital to position itself, to sell the need to have this product, so photography is so important in this process, we buy and eat in sight. Especially in gourmet or gourmet photography.
Here, the author talks about the importance of showing reality and his best work, creating simple but direct photographs, taking different photographs of the same product; the importance of combining colors, backgrounds, telling a story, placing the product in a real scene, and some essential tips to get good results in your photos.
And to encourage reading, recipe tomato soup for the end?
In this chapter, you step through the work behind some of the images that appear in the workbook.
It teaches you how to create an aerial image, to choose a background, accessories, light; to work scenarios with multiple elements, in low light, and multiple versions of the same product.
What about Tatin’s cake to finish? My God, what would the Anglo-Saxons say?
In this chapter, you’ll learn amazing tricks from the author and, more importantly, avoid a lot of work and mistakes.
Make sure the ingredients don’t get wet in your soups, by adding water to the ingredients to add freshness, add volume, blow up flour, hold spaghetti vertically, photograph real smoke or even create a fake, beat your moving photos, etc.
It also covers tricks in terms of details, colors and backgrounds, or the importance of working connected to the computer or creating our own scenarios.
And finally, a delicious chocolate cookie recipe?
An image in the digital world is not complete until you have processed or modified it in your favorite program.
In this chapter, the author talks about his workflow with Photoshop and we will accompany him step by step in editing one of his images in this editor.
Finally, a delicious grape jam. How are you staying?
Finally, a chapter that I found the most successful and interesting, with all these recurring questions that the author receives as a specialist in gastronomic photography and which have not been reflected in the other chapters of the book because they are very specific.
Among them, you can find answers to what type of fabric is best, tips to evolve into your own style, how the author started in this world or how to get a really black background.
Oh, and roast chicken with 🙂
Raquel Carmona is a professional teacher and self-taught photographer who today serves as a professional photographer and gastronomic stylist.
With almost 100K followers on both Instagram and its blog, it is a reference in this type of photographs for its personal style and the quality of its images.
You can check their blog “Los tragaldabas”, where you will find recipes and various tips related to culinary photography, or visit their YouTube channel:
And finally, I recommend following your Instagram account where you have almost 100K, there’s nothing: @raquel_carmona (do I already?) Because it’s beautiful and his pictures are a delight.
Paperback: 268 pages
Seller: Anaya Multimedia (Photo Club)
Dimensions: 18. 5 x 24 cm
Price: $23. 70
Everything is well written, it is clear in its explanations, it is very complete in terms of content, the vocation of the writer as a teacher is seen, he likes (and knows) to transmit and does not stay with tricks and tricks. his sleeve. Write generously and expose everything you know.
Similarly, as far as design is concerned, the photos that illustrate the book are beautiful, it has a good font size and the composition of the pages is adequate; The book breathes and is easy to read.
Oh, and it really makes you want to take pictures of ingredients, dishes, cakes or crazy.
If you are on a diet when you get to the Chocolate Cake or Cake Tatin section, or one of the delicious recipes that the author offers at the end of each chapter?
A very complete book to start from scratch in the world of culinary photography, I do not think there is an important theme that the author neglects, this book will guide you step by step, from the zero minute and covering all possible scenarios in the magical world. of culinary photography.
I hope you liked that recommendation. If so, before you escape to make a delicious dish, I encourage you to share it on different social networks so that it reaches more interested people.
Thank you very much and until next time?