Don't eat 'em yet...

Yum. Baked up some scones yesterday, then photographed them. Then of course, we had to eat them! Hardest part was keeping the nephews away from the scones until I finished photographing them.

I think of all the things I'm trying to photograph for stock, food is my favorite. Maybe 'cos I love cooking. Other than wandering nibblers, the hardest things I'm experiencing with food photography are (1) the tiny crumbs that fall off the food and land on the plate, the tablecloth, etc. I don't always notice them at the time, but zoomed in at 200% they are larger than life! (2) the lighting (3) focus. Sound familiar? I'm always struggling to stay in focus, or at least, have the focus fall where it's most agreeable. What I really need to work on is the lighting so that I can add knives, forks and spoons to the shots. As it is, they aren't there because they reflect too much light and then we have GLARE...