{"id":2324,"date":"2009-03-31T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2009-03-31T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:00:18","slug":"photography-tip-tuesday-creating-dimension-in-cake-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/photography-tip-tuesday-creating-dimension-in-cake-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"photography tip tuesday| creating dimension in cake pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our shoot this weekend was canceled due to some complications from the blizzard last week, so for once I have time to do our sadly neglected photography tip posts!<\/p>\n

As promised a few weeks ago, this tip is all about my lighting trick for cake pictures.<\/p>\n

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I am a HUGE fan of cake pictures (probably because I am such a huge fan of cake), and one of the most important things in a cake picture is that it show a sense of dimension.\u00a0\u00a0 How do we show dimension in a photo?\u00a0 With shadows.\u00a0 When one side of an object is in light and the other in shadow, we can see the shape of it better.<\/p>\n

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If you use straight on flash, or even bounce from the wall behind your camera, you’re going to make that cake look a little flat.\u00a0 What you want with cakes is side lighting.\u00a0 Cakes are usually put in a corner of the reception room, which makes creating side lighting VERY easy.\u00a0 I just turn my flash head so that it bounces off the wall to the side of the cake.<\/p>\n

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This lighting tip isn’t just relavent for cakes–it’s a great tip for anything that you need to show dimension for.\u00a0 You know what’s like a cake?\u00a0 A pregnant belly!<\/p>\n

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Totally different subject, but the same basic problem–it’s a round object but if you use lighting from head-on, you’re not going to be able to tell that it’s round.\u00a0 So you need to use side lighting, and I shot this belly in the exact way that I would a cake–bouncing light from the wall to my left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our shoot this weekend was canceled due to some complications from the blizzard last week, so for once I have time to do our sadly neglected photography tip posts! As promised a few weeks ago, this tip is all about my lighting trick for cake pictures. I am a HUGE fan of cake pictures (probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}