Wow! Thanks @kina and @bennett-family for all your critique. Super helpful! 🙂 Gotta pull out the garlic and ginger and take some more pictures with your suggestions, now. 🙂
It’s kind of a whole new field, isn’t it? 😀
Totally! I’ve like never done food photography before. Now I have a new appreciation for them. 😉
Also, before I begin, is the bowl of ginger powder part of the product you were photographing? Or is it just an extra to enhance the photo?
I’m assuming that it’s an extra, and will critique that way. 😀 I’ll also critique them like a product photo of ginger and a product photo of garlic. If I’m wrong in my assumptions, please let me know. 😀
Ha! Well, yes the ginger and garlic started off as the subject, but when I got the idea of using the powder in little bowls, that then became the subject instead! Sort of a ‘move out, cooler bowl coming in’ moment. 🙂 I guess the thing too is that I wasn’t taking these as a product picture as such, more as a random culinary stock image. But I totally get what your saying with all that. You’re right! I sort of have too many things going on – maybe I need to pick one subject. 😊
@kina, Photo #1
The quantity there is small, so it makes the picture kind of limp.
True! I was trying not waste to much by slicing up a heap, but it does look a bit lame. Next time I’ll use more.
Photo #2
Maybe because the ginger, bowl of powder, and cut ginger are all kind of in a line, and there’s nothing on the left or right, and only half of the cut ginger and big piece of ginger are visible?
Neat observation! I’ll arrange that differently next time.
Photo #3
If the bowl was REALLY HEAPING with powder, so that there was a little hill on top, it might add more interest and you would have a better point to focus on. Then it could spill over a little bit too, to create a neat full – and – overflowing feel! 😀
I had this idea after too! Definitely implementing this next time. 👍🏻
Photo #4
If you had a similar cutting board, you could stand it upright behind so that you could get down and shoot across for a different angle.
Hadn’t thought of that! Not a bad idea. 🙂
I’d highly recommend you take a look at the Bulk Herb Store’s blog.
Oh yes! I’ve heard of that place. I love looking at other people’s photos for inspiration. Thanks!
@bennett-family, Thanks for your comments.
I don’t know: do garlic and ginger even go together?
Well, in each picture I’ve only included either ginger or garlic. So they aren’t actually in the same photos together. I believe you do use them both in the same dishes. 🙂
I’m not really into either garlic OR ginger,
Oh, seriously?! 😮 Not even garlic bread? 😆 I mean, I LOVE garlic. I admit ginger isn’t really my thing most of the time. Though it’s good sometimes depending what it’s in. 😉
– It feels weighted to the left
True, true!
the lack of color makes the picture less intriguing for me.
Good to consider. Don’t want a boring image, now. 🙂
I do wish all the garlic was in focus, but I know adjusting the aperture would mess with exposing the scene.
Yeah, hard to balance everything, for sure. But I would’ve preferred to have it all in focus. Much nicer that way.
Looks crooked; the grain of the wood isn’t straight.
Huh! Hadn’t noticed.
Again, great pictures and I do have to say your alphabet challenge is a good idea. Makes me think I should do some sort of challenge like that myself! 😀
You should! It’s fun!
Thanks again! It’s so helpful to have a fresh pair of eyes checking out your work!