Creative Food Photography: Flying Burger
Pro Club Workshop #68
Creative Food Photography
This is a food photography tutorial for Pro Club Interactive Education Program, workshop #68
In this food photography workshop, you will learn how to create a stunning composition of a burger in mid-air using an advanced technique for a believable high-end advertising result.
Your instructors, Alex Koloskov (in-studio shooting) and Artem Pissarevskiy (Photoshop retouching), will explain how to overcome challenges when working on food photography assignments: how to set up the scene for a composition, what light to use and how to use it for a dramatic effect in a small studio, and what final steps need to be taken to get the best in-camera results.
Our post-production guru, Artem Pissarevskiy, will also show you the best practices to enhance advertising images like this creative food photography example.
To learn more about other food photography tutorials that we have, check out these classes:
- Advertising Cognac Image: Advanced Compositing in Photoshop: Workshop #67
- Organic Image of Your Favorite Thing: Workshop #30
- Holiday Photography: Workshop #65
- Creative Beverage Photography: Workshop #57
- Best Advertising Photography on Pinterest
Deadline for homework submission: April 15th, 2019
Date of the live review: April 16th, 2019
Note: If you have questions, please ask on the same forum on a sticky Q/A post
Meet your instructors
Alex Koloskov
Alex is one of the world’s best commercial advertising photographers, co-founder and teacher at Photigy.com.
He is also the man behind Photigy’s most popular courses and a tireless idea-generator.
Artem Pissarevskiy
Artem is a 22-year-old retoucher from Finland. He’s been working in the post-production field for about four years. He sees himself as more of a technically skilled retoucher than artistic, specializing mostly in product and creative retouching, and he enjoys problem-solving as it is a huge part of the post-production process.
Creative Food Photography: In-Studio Shooting
Post-Production
Before and After Post-Production
Students’ Submissions
Homework: Critique and Review
I was waiting for this course:) thank you 🙏🏻..
Small question: there is no post production tutorial?
Hey Amal! The post-production will be available shortly.
I’m unable to expand the practice PSD zip file – get an error message that says “Operation not permitted.” Is it me or is anyone else having this problem?
Lidija, maybe OS is blocking the unzipping process somehow… If you’re on Win, try right click on the file -> run as administrator
I’m running MAC OS 10.14.3 – and I’m administrator. Just curious if others have successfully opened this zip file.
Hi Artem,
Can you please tell what action is that. The one that you are using before starting your work on each layer?
Is that action or the steps to do that available at Photigy?
Hello Mohammed!
The action is nothing too fancy. It just creates two empty layers, renames them and color codes them. The upper DB layer also gets it’s blending mode switched to soft light. I have this action to save time when I retouch because I like to have my layers organized and color coded in a specific way. The action is not available at Photigy, but you can easily recreate it if you feel like it is going to help your layer management.
Thanks Artem
I also am on a Mac and cannot unzip the psd file. I am receiving a message that says “decompression failed”
Lidija. Just after I wrote I could not get the psd file I think I found the problem. If you try to download and all the message says is “decompression failed” you can go to your downloads and find the “Winzip” files for the hamburger. The solution is now to download “Winzip” for their website for Macs and then run the file thru it. Hope this works for you, it did for me.
Thanks Edward – That worked!
Hello everyone! we have updated the link to a PSD file, now it should work OK on Mac. Sorry for the trouble!
Hey Artem. Great tutorial! I have a question for you in an upcoming workshop. How do you manage the large files and how do you optimize PS. Everywhere I see that most editors prefer to use non-distractive workflow (smart objects as imported layers) But it’s only possible via Adobe Camera RAW. I prefer to do all color correction with capture one >> export tiffs. Would you recommend to export a 16bit files? Do you apply any compression for tiffs (zip…lzw)? Does it make a sense to work with linked files? To keep all files individually cut out elements TIFF (with masks) that just link them all in the master project. All files will act as smart objects and it will be possible to liquify them without rasterizing them.
Hello Roman!
Thank you for the kind words. You can import the files as tiff format without compression as 8 bit. No need to have it in 16 bit in the beginning as you are going to work on the images quite a lot and them being 16 bit is going to make it really difficult. I rarely work with linked files – mostly I just convert the raster images into smart objects and then you can for example apply liquify for non destructive workflow. I will keep this in mind and maybe explain it in a future workshop.
Thanks, Artem for suggestions. For some reason, I thought the tiff has a lossless compression (zip/lzw)
Alex or Artem do you what is the date for live review? I’m still working on editing. It’s going to be epic.
How do I edit the copy on my submission for this assignment. I need to correct a link that I posted for PSD file.
Lidija, there’s “Edit” button on the forum
What is the date of the live review?
Roman, 1 PM PST, as usual 🙂 See you there!
Hi Andrey. When? Today?
Hello, I’m new here ….where was the announcement with the date and time of the live review? I have searched on forum but I have not found anything. My burger is not yet ready … but I would have liked to see the comments session live … but I did not find the announcement.
Hey Bogdan,
We send an email prior to the live show, and on the day of the actual stream.
You can add your shot to this thread and it will be review by Alex on April 25th (last Thursday of each month): https://www.photigy.com/school/forums/topic/april-2019/
I became a member a few hours ago, I love this…..!!
Welcome Karim. Glad you liked it, maybe we see your work in the upcoming workshops?
hi.
can you list all the gear in this workshop ?
One of my favorite shots. Been wanting to try this. Be couple months or so until get to it.
Just FYI, way too much the Sriracha Ketchup layer. I think the Sriracha a better choice than tomato ketchup due to color, however is a bit thick.
Also, in restaurant often the bottom layer between the burger and bun is usually Mayo or a house-made Mayo based spicy sauce. Reason is, fat content. The eggy-sauce doesn’t allow the juices from beef make the bottom bun super soggy.
And I Love the BLT image submitted. Nice work!!!
The background work—seen this in many the Photigy Style. This one I love how he added the base layers then added more whites values, really makes the image pop.