From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
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Preparing ingredients for a salad
From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
Preparing ingredients for a salad
For this movie, I want to show you, with our food stylist, Claire Stancer, what to look for when you put salad ingredients together from the store or farmers' market. Having fresh ingredients is the key to making your salad, or any food photography, look great. So before we put our salad together, here are some tips on want to look for. Okay Claire, let's see what you brought in from the store. Claire: Okay, well, I think the idea is to either go to a farmers' market if you have one handy and it's convenient, or to a high-end grocery store, because what you get is flawless vegetables. In this case, there is beautiful radishes. They look like they've just been pulled from the garden with these stems. The leaves are fresh. The color is uniform. Next, I'm going to our onions. The little red onions that I brought are really tight--that's how you know that an onion is fresh. If I was to cut this onion, the circles inside would be really tight and very deep in color. I'm going to go next to…
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