From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
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Making fake ice cream
From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
Making fake ice cream
For this movie, I'm working with food stylist Claire Stancer. Claire is going to show you the steps to create real-looking ice cream that won't melt in front of your camera. By using fake ice cream, it will give the photographer as much time as needed to light, compose, and shoot. But before we do that, let me give you a little info about my setup here. So you can see I have a strobe head over here that's going through the plexi, onto our scene. I have a stand-in for our ice cream that's just basically wadded-up paper towel to give me sort of the size and area that the camera is going to see. I have a couple cards here that are normally used for reflecting, but in this case, I'm actually subtracting light from my set. I don't want to have so much light spilling over to the front or the back, so I am keeping that light off and having the light just hit right in here. So I am going to take a little bit of a test shot right now, just to see how things are looking. And when I look at this…
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