“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.” – Brooks Atkinson
I use a Canon EOS Rebel T1i for the majority of my photos. My favorite lens is my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.
I do admit freely to using my iPhone to take pictures when it’s not convenient to haul my SLR around. I also have a Sony DSC-H3 and a Sony DSC-W120 but use them less.
I edit my photographs in Photoshop on my PC as well as in iPhoto and Snapseed on my iPad.
If you’d like to see more of my work, you can browse my Flickr account.
Have you tried Photo Editor? It’s very inexpensive and a whole bunch of fun.
I haven’t heard of it but thank you for the tip, I’ll check it out!
I’ve been wondering for a while now–do you light your kitchen projects in any special way? The color balance and shadow in your food shots are always just perfect and I can’t achieve anything close to it in my kitchen.
Well first of all I use my fancy SLR camera for most food posts and I use all manual settings on there to adjust for lighting, etc. I think that really helps because it’s much more precise to work with. I also rely on photo editing software (Photoshop on my PC and a variety of programs on my iPad) to help adjust the color balance and white balance during the editing process. One other big blogging secret is that I will wait until the weekend and cook a whole bunch of recipes during the times where my kitchen gets the best light (11AM-4PM), so the pictures all look uniform and I start with great light so I don’t have to do a ton of editing. And then I space the posts out during the week even when I shot them all on the same day. So the finished product comes out much more polished with those things but it takes a lot of time and effort to do all that!
That. Is. Intense. Your hard work definitely shows!
I know, it’s kinda crazy. But it’s like my #1 hobby so I spend a lot of time doing it. Thank you!
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Which version of Photoshop are you using? :) I love it and couldn’t imagine my photogrphy-life with it ;)
Oh jeez, it’s ancient. Version 7 maybe? But hey, it still works like a charm!