David Loftus Photography Masterclass – Styling & Composition

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now Ginny is creating this dish from a
certain angle and you can see the way
she looks at a dish she’s creating that
with a photo in mind now if she was
standing over it like this I’d be
thinking right she’s creating something
graphic that should be shot from above
but I tend to watch the way she’s doing
it whether she’s plating up because
she’s looking at it at the best angle I
wouldn’t then shoot it that way because
of course you know Ginny’s not looking
at it that way when I’m shooting dishes
and you know you you’re very way you
have to get all the angles right and get
everything straight and normal but quite
often if you stick a tall bottle in the
background that you know whether it’s
wine bottle or a glass bottle because of
perspective and the way the way the lens
is focused on the food quite often a
bottle will look like it’s shooting out
your picture we’ve got a little little
pile of coins in our pocket and you just
slip a couple of coins if something
that’s a bit and it’s always them you
always have to sort of you have to bend
it further than you think just by
sticking a couple of coins underneath
the bottle everything is straight wonky
I’ve taken one of my um my backgrounds
here and just thought I’m just literally
resting it against the stand but I’ve
just popped it in to create a horizon
really within the shot
my feeling is with this dish it’s
floating islands it’s gonna be quite
tall hopefully but have little layers as
well of custard creams or whatever and
and it’s a lot of floating islands of
meringue on top so I thought I probably
want to be quite low and my brief is to
keep this very sort of soft and grey and
blue and stuff so all I’ve done is added
the board to the back to create a little
horizon within the image so it’s a nice
soft almost theatrical background really
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