Photo Shoot Time

Yesterday, my dad and I shot my photos for my magazine. I thought by having my dad help me would be a good idea since he has been a professional chef since after high school. My dad likes to dress up the food and make it look as pretty as possible for the photos. Overall I think we did an amazing job and I am honesty very proud of myself for being capable of doing all of this.

The 1st thing I shot was the photo of the "home-made nut butter"











This is the photo before the editing stages. My dad thought that the peanut butter would look good next too a banana and a spoon of peanut butter to add some more to the picture and make it not as boring of a picture since it is just of peanut butter. We also paired it with banana because peanut butter and banana go well together and we had both thought that this would overall make a great photo inside of my table of contents. My dad also had the circular wood platter and I thought that it would match the brown tones in the peanut butter in the photo so thats why we decided to place it on there.


The next thing I shot were of my "Juice cleanses"

This is the original photo of my juice cleanses. My dad bought me 2 juices one strawberry lemonade and one mango pineapple juice. I had told him originally to buy three juices and when I saw only 2 I needed to come up with a solution. I decided to mix the juices to make it more of an orange color and placed it in the largest cup in the back. The 2 smaller cups towards the front have the solid juices. Then my dad said to me that the juices look sort of boring without the fruit decorations in the front. So my dad placed the dragon fruit, strawberries, blackberries, starfruit and mint to add more colors and make the photo look nicer. We did not decide to lay anything on the counter for this specific photo and the colors of the counter make the fruits pop even more too. Overall this photo turned out very well in my opinion and looked even better after I filtered and edited it. 

The 3rd thing I shot was my cover photo pictures which was of the avocado toast

I will be using the photos of the avocado toast in both my front cover and also my table of contents. I am not sure which will be used for which but what I have thought so far is to use the first one in the table of contents and then the second photo on the front cover, but I will try both out and make a vote on which one looks better. This was one of the harder dishes to take a photo since the toast aspect of the photo can barely be seen. My dad cut the crusts off of the toast and that made the bread pieces smaller and less shown. But I am very much in love with these photos and the way they turned out after they got edited. The colors all work so well together in my opinion and none of the colors overwhelm each other. I originally placed the platter on a green table cloth but it was very overwhelming since the avocados are so green. We also placed this on the circular wood platter to give it more of an earthy feel and have more of a healthy woodsy aesthetic. I  love the way they did turn out though since they did very much fit the visions that were going in my head. 

The 4th thing I shot was for my double page spread and my table of contents and that was my acai bowl. 

This was for sure the hardest dish we shot. We purchased acai and pitaya from a local store and kept them in the freezer at home until we were ready to use it. My dad took out the center of the pineapple and cut up a bunch of mixed fruits. I thought that this one would look the best laid out on the table cloth since the color of the cloth was bright and pretty. We just scattered the fruits around the pineapple and tried making it look cool and pretty. After editing the photos they looked absolutely amazing. I also facetuned the second picture to get the blue table cloth on the entire picture. 

The 5th thing was a watermelon salad that will be in my table of contents

When first looking at this picture, I really did not like it. The colors of everything seemed to all just be blended together and I just could not get a good photo or angle of the salad. I took the most time shooting this dish but I picked out this specific picture to further edit and enhance the colors to make the photo more alive. Once i edited it, the picture really came together and I got to actually see all the salad parts.

Lastly, I shot photos of the Lettuce wraps and that was my final dish that will be featured in my table of contents

These are some of my favorite out of all the pictures I took. I decided to place the orange table cloth to pop out the colors of the shrimp.  I also chose the yellow polka dotted platter because I wanted to have a color scheme going for this dish. All the colors in this dish go very well together and make the main parts of the dish stand out. After editing these photos I really started to love them since all the colors just go very well together.