Six years spent working as a line cook and bread baker have madeEric Wolfingeruniquely restricted for his current career as a food photographer . Eric ’s kitchen experience tempt his documentary shot flair , as well as his approaching to make food look delicious : “ You have to start with appetizing food , and then shoot as if you are eating . ”
These pizza pie crack were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and a 35 mm lens . Eric needed photo of pizza shekels cooked by a material woodwind instrument fire . He recruit his booster Jeff , who has been muck about for the retiring yr tomodify a Weber grillinto a pizza oven capable of baking pies at 850 degree . ( Jeff , be intimate topically as thePizzaHacker , bake and betray his pies on the street in San Francisco ’s Mission territory using a similar oven . ) They set up the camera equipment and qualify oven in a forge and started broil .
“ I bed commingle ambient light with a little bounce heartbeat . I waited for the blue light of crepuscle to pour through the skylights , and then used a speedlight split second bounced off of a translucent reflector for a subtle filling , ” said Eric . “ The crucial thing was figure out how long of an vulnerability I involve to get enough ambient brightness level , and then adjusting the power of my flash to occupy in where point was ask . ”
Still a cook at heart , Eric prefers to shoot his solid food naturally – catch spicy intellectual nourishment when it ’s still hot . The instant feedback he make by shooting digitally and with natural light allows him to make quick adaptation on the fly ball and get the shot chop-chop , without resorting to typical solid food photography tricks to make food look appetizing for long period of time .
The top image was shot with an 1/10th of a second shutter f number and an aperture of f2.8 . The image of Jeff prepping the dough was shot with a one-half of a second shutter speed and an aperture of f2.5 .
you may see more of Eric ’s picture atericwolfinger.com . To cover down thePizza Hacker , survey him on Twitter:@pizzahacker .
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