Food photography with Bea Lubas
Food photographer Bea Lubas will speak at The Photography & Video Show. Niall Hampton finds out more
Digital Camera loves to cover the wonders of shooting food. It’s one of the easiest ways of enjoying still-life photography, as a bowl of fruit and a basic camera is all you need to get started and, if you want to take it further, you’re only limited by your imagination and creativity.
Bea Lubas has appeared in these pages before and is speaking at The Photography & Video Show this month. As a Lightroom ambassador, she will be sharing her tips for editing food photos in the popular software application.
As regular readers may recall from issues 240 and 264, Lubas likes to keep things simple in her studio, and she loves to use natural light for photography, shaping it when necessary with diffusers and reflectors.
So which tasty dishes can we look forward to today, I ask?
“Fresh produce and something seasonal, of course,” Lubas replies. “For anyone just starting food photography, or who shoots a different genre, and wants to try food, the simplest way is to start with some beautiful seasonal produce – citrus or citrus-like fruit, oranges, satsumas, which are easy to find.”
Lubas arranges half a dozen satsumas on a dark grey plate with a rustic texture, placed on a black background. Orange, grey and black is a proven colour combination but the tableau is transformed by the presence of the fruit’s green leaves; small details make a big difference. Lubas captures the scene from a tripod with her Canon EOS R5 and Canon RF 24-70mm F2.8L IS USM lens. Shooting at f/4.5
