A culinary experience consists of tastes, scents, visual inputs, sounds and sensory experiences ... like
- Enjoying the sight of a beautifully set table,
- Hearing the crispy top of a cake crack as you cut it,
- Smelling the sweet cinnamon and apples,
- Seeing the colours and feeling the crispiness of the cake blending with the soft and airy cream, and
- Experiencing a symphony of taste as you take the first bite ...
We are eating with out eyes, so you want to focus especially on the details in food photography.I added a tiny branch with flowers to the corner of the plate to give a feeling of festive coziness. I had the color play in mind as well: The white and yellow flowers, and the green needles, go together with the green marzipan and the colours in the lemon slice. In editing I wanted to create an overall warm glow to the photo. To achieve a natural look, I decided to use photo veils from Love That Shot, since they blend softly and seamlessly to the image.
Photo recipe:
- I started with increasing slightly the brightness and the contrast of the original image.
- Thereafter I added the following 2 photo veils:
- Lychee photo veil from the Botanical Collection blending mode soft light with 100 % opacity. I used a soft brush with 50 % opacity and removed some of the veil from the cake and the plate.
- Serendipity photo veil from Simplicity Collection, using blending mode soft light with 30 % opacity.