Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects
Composing our photo: zenith plane
A course by Dácil Fernández , Food Photographer and Stylist
About the video: Composing our photo: zenith plane
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to compose our still life in a zenith or flatlay. We will follow the same process as in the front plan photo.”
In this video lesson Dácil Fernández addresses the topic: Composing our photo: zenith plane, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects. Create delicious images of food for Instagram and turn them into dark and moody works of art in Lightroom.
Partial transcription of the video
“Composing our Photo: Cenital View Let's start our cenital view. Just like we did on the front angle photo, we’ll do it here. We’ll make a base for our composition. We go to the camera to check if everything is working and once we see that it fits our frame, we start to compose. This base is created using props before we add the food. Let's compose our image. The first thing I’ll do is add this black plate with a selection of cheese. There's a bit broken off, it doesn't matter, it gives it a touch of reality. We start to compose, we add some cheese. I put a bit more and I look through the ca...”
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Course summary for: Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects
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Category
Culinary, Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom Classic -
Areas
Food Photography, Food Styling, Instagram Photography

Dácil Fernández
A course by Dácil Fernández
Food photographer Dácil Fernández first started out on a bakery blog, where she invented stories around food and transformed them into photographs. At that time, she was a fashion stylist and decided to leave it to devote herself fully to photography.
She has worked with Mangaroca, DYC, Tefal, Kenwood, Nescafé, Paulaner, Bulldog, and Lidl, among others. All these big-name brands found their way to her through her main showcase: Instagram.
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