personally I like to get all of the tech out of the way before I start on the creative that's just how I like to work and organize a shoot you know setting up the camera getting a tripod what lens I'm going to use the focus the lighting busting out the slider and all that good stuff [Music] composition the props the food the color the balance all of that creative stuff that's how I break it down it's near impossible for me to think about both at the same time it's also good to have a few parts
of your process pre-planned I have a go-to lighting set up for hamburgers it might not be what the final shot looks like but it's a good place to start foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] to shoot this burger pretty much straight on with a lower camera angle which will make the burger stand up nice and tall and give it that hero look to it my aperture for this hamburger shot is set to f8 and my key light is cranked up to 100 full power but that probably doesn't matter to you because most likely
you'll be using different lights than me and different modifiers at different distances but what is important is I want to make sure I set up a ratio between my key light and my fill light so for my fill light I want to make sure that it's half the power as my key light so a two to one ratio now if these lights were exactly the same that would be easy but it doesn't need to be that precise or anything you don't need to bust out the light meter or anything like that you just want to
make sure that visually your fill light is less than your key light this will give me a nice definite light direction from my key light with these two large soft boxes one is placed slightly behind and to the left as my key light and one in front and off to the right as my fill my key light here wraps around the edge of the bun and the ingredients on the left hand side and gives the burger a nice rounded look to it kind of like a hair like giving it shape and helping it separate it
from the background my fill light is the main light source for all of my ingredients in my burger here and it also adds a nice little rounded highlight on the other side of the bun with brioche buns like these your highlights might be a bit more shiny and a little bit more pronounced than say on your stereotypical hamburger bun but in portrait lighting terms what we have here is a Rembrandt lighting setup with a hair light only in this setup our hair light is our key light and it's pretty simple too something that you can
set up in five to ten minutes while you're waiting for your delicious Burger to arrive on set it's a great lighting setup you know just to have in the Techno technical toolbox something that you can pull out whenever the Burger Shot comes about and you can add to it as well you could add another light you throw in a white card reflector you could remove the fill light altogether and just put a nice you know reflector or white card some foam core right here to bounce some of that light back into those ingredients but it's
a pretty nice simple little lighting setup that is easy to remember and it works every time so I hope you enjoyed this and I'll see you in the next one man I need some more coffee [Music] foreign [Music]
