Hi,

I’m Sydney and for my latest Food studies project, I was told to test my food photography skills and attempt to take some aesthetically pleasing photos of household items found in the kitchen so ready or not, here they come!

These are the items i decided to use. My dad’s prized matching utensils that he told me not to take to school because he doesn’t trust that I won’t loose one and mess up the set, a very popular jar with more cooking tools and a cutting board with an orange sweet pepper as my food of choice. I chose this vibrant orange sweet pepper simply to add a little colour to my photos.

I love the way this photo looks because my family and love making jokes about matching up the real utensils with the utensils on the place mats. It’s become sort of a tradition that every time we use the mats, my dad tries to pick up the fake fork instead of his real fork. To me, lining up the real utensils with the fake look very aesthetically pleasing.

I love this little utensil holder because I have one at both my mom’s house and my dad’s. It gives me a little piece of mind knowing that when i switch over to another house, at least I’m going to see one familiar thing.

In these pictures I started playing around with filters and angles. The filter used in both pictures is called “vivid warm”, which i really like. The the second photo, I held the camera bellow eye level and it made the utensil jar look much bigger than it actually is. People usually like to use angles like that to make themselves look taller in their photos.

Here we have some pictures of a vibrant little orange sweet pepper. I held up a black poster board behind the sweet pepper to make sure the colours really got their chance to pop. The first picture is the original and the second is with a filter. The third picture is of an angle bellow eye view which, just like the utensils jar, makes the sweet pepper look a bit taller than above eye view.

Thank you for reading my Food Photography project!