It’s a new year and I have a new project! If you follow my blog or my Facebook statuses, you know that I love both creating recipes and photographing food – so it was absolutely my lucky day to stumble upon a group of like-minded foodies and photographers from The Bloom Forum who were putting together a monthly challenge group for food photography and styling. I was a little late in joining the group, but managed to get on board with these fantastic ladies just before the January assignment was due.
On the 20th of each month, we will be posting our completed assignments on our blogs. Each month presents a different challenge but all will be stylized food photo shoots. Additionally, our blogs will be linked to form a “blog circle” so that the reader can click from one blog to the next very quickly and easily to view everyone’s completed assignment. We would love to have lots of readers follow us every month!
I already love this group – we are all eager to connect, become more proficient, willing to share our areas of expertise or knowledge, and to support and kindly critique one another. Our personal goals for embarking on this year-long journey vary from individual to individual, but collectively I think we all like the process of improving our skills and having a platform upon which to share our images.
Drum roll please! Our challenge assignment for January is Fruit on a White Background. No props allowed for this one, and just one final image.
I chose the carambola for my fruit, which is also known as the starfruit.
I have the worst light in my house, so I needed to use my (new) Lowel EGO lights. I shot in manual at f/5.0, 1/320, and ISO 640 with my 24-70 f/2.8L lens. Here is a pullback of the shot:
Please continue through our blog circle – next up is Laurie Vengoechea; San Diego and Riverside County Food Photographer – who gets the big high five for starting our group! Her images rock – please check out her post!
Hope to see you back here for February’s assignment – thanks for taking a look at what we’re doing.
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Stacey! I just love this shot of the star fruit!! What a fun and pretty fruit!
I love the composition of your stars falling in the photo. What a fun take on the fruit!!
I, too, love the styling of this!!! And you rock for showing your pullback!! Didn’t even cross my mind to include that in my post!
This fruit has to be the coolest ever! How amazing, dainty and fascinating is a starfruit?! You rocked it! And I want your light setup!! Thanks for sharing your pullback!
Nice use of the star fruit here. I really like your composition and lighting. I might need to get me some of those fancy lights.
I totally agree with Amanda, these fruits are so pretty and have so much character! I love your composition!! I want to know what you did with the fruit after, did you serve them up in a delicious salad or eat them raw?? I have never had one before so I’m so interested in hearing!
So glad you’ve joined us Stacey.. And I live that you showed your pull backs too!! Looking forward to our next challenge!
Star fruit is so much fun-I’m so happy to see something fun like this. Beautiful composition that really takes advantage of leading your eye and making it a very interesting photograph.
Beautiful image Stacey! Don’t you just love those lights?? My blog budget is not very large, and the lowell light fit right into my world. One of these days I’m going to purchase another one so I can have balance.
Beautiful star fruit! I’ve actually never tried the fruit, but the shape is always so appealing. Nicely done!
Great composition, like falling stars!
Love how you made that first shot so whimsical! I’ve never actually had star fruit, I’ll have to give it a try! Thanks for sharing your set-up too…so helpful for us newbies!
Love your starfruit! I have never eaten one so it is super cool to see something new. Thanks for sharing the pullback….those lights look like fun!
Stacey, you are by far my favorite photogrpaher. You have an eye and a mind this is just fantastic and you definitley think ‘ouside the box!’ This is another winning image, the way you displayed the furit and the elegance of the finished product is one of the many reasons I am a fan xx
LOVE. I’m excited to follow you on this new journey and this is a fabulous first shot! I just love the fruit you chose
So glad to see what Carambola is.
Nicely done.