Smartphone Natural Light Food Photography : How to Shoot Natural Light Food Photos Using Smartphone

1. Hello !: Hello guys, welcome to our class again. Today will be very interesting because we really showed a natural lighting. Put photography using smartphone. Okay, So when people see our pictures shooting using smartphone, People always consider that. Do I have to infer such expensive smartphone, maybe more than $1000 smartphone to get a beautiful picture at all. Because today I will explain to you how we should amazing food photography using only a $150 smartphone. And we also do the photography using the natural lighting. Okay. You don't even have to span any bucks to buy any lighting because the only light you have to use is only your window light. Okay. So on my right side, I have a large window here. But you don't have to prepare such a large window like this because the minimum size of the window you have to use is only about 40 until 50 centimeters wide of the window. Okay, So it's pretty simple. Then after this class, you can practice using your own smartphone. Please don't upgrade your smartphone first, okay. Just use the smartphone that you have right now and then use your window life. Then practice the photoshoot and the editing that we will explain to you today. So then you can directly create beautiful food photography using your smartphone in your home with no investment. Okay? The thing that you have to prepare is only default. And then the light thing, then back ground and some small prompts like this. Okay, so let's move to the next section. 2. Introduction of Lighting: Okay guys, In this section I will explain to you about the likely some of my students ask me why I cannot get high-quality images. You're seeing my natural light in my home. Okay, So I'll give you some principles to create a beautiful natural lighting, food photography in your home. Using them, we know like, okay, so the first thing is usually I have to define the quality of the light, okay? What is the quality of life in my definition, the high-quality lighting for food photography is the stoplight thing. Usually you will get the high-quality like thing, like soft light thing. If your window, it's facing south or north. So if your window is facing the west or east side, then the liking will be fairly harsh light in the E-site, the lightning will use very harsh in the morning. So if your collision is like that, then you have to use this one, okay? This one is the diffuser. You can find it online. This diffuser is the Wi-Fi. There is semi translucent and then I agree, harsh lighting that coming through this white fabric will be software. Okay, so if you are facing that you're like thing is very harsh from your window, then you can just use this diffuser like this and put it here. So it will increase the quantity of relighting here. Okay? So there is the first principle. So if you find your quality of lighting in your home first and then if the amount is very rare, it means that the lambda is very harsh. Then you can use this to filter the light thing so it will be softer here. Okay? And then the second principle that you have to remind as least picture that there is no other source of lighting in your room. Okay. So please, of all the Laika in your room and then please make sure they're turned off. So the only source of the lightning is on my right side. So it will be only once here though in our liking here, if you don't realize there is an under sort of thing, just have to see how many shadows in your object here. If the only lighting is on the right side, then this will be on the left side. But if there's another source of lighting, then the shadow will be everywhere. Okay? So you just have to look at our object in our photo area here. Okay? So there is some of the four and the lighting for natural, I think with photography using smartphone. 3. Introduction of Smartphone Camera: Okay, then in this section, I want to explain to you about the smartphone, okay? There's many myths about a smartphone that many people confirmed to me. Okay, So what does smartphone actually, in this section, we only use the ordinary smartphone, not very expensive one. This smartphone is only about 200 until $300, okay? So it's very affordable for you. But if you only have the smartphone that the price below $200, it doesn't mean that you cannot create a beautiful picture because pro fine you many techniques to increase your quality of your image, okay, regardless what smartphone you use. The first tapes for me or the smartphone is, please make sure your lances in your phone is clean. Okay. So before I take the photo shoot, I always check if there's any fingerprint, clean your camera, phone lens k, Using the tissue or paper towel then mentioned, it is very clean, okay? Because sometimes it will decrease your quality of the image, especially its sharpness, okay? And then the second thing is how you hold your smartphone. There's many collision debts. And then after we should and we check, the photo can be blurred vision because how we hold our phone. Okay. I suggest, even if your smartphone is already very good at it to stabilize our image. But our suggests that you hold your camera phone. Right? Okay. So I suggest you to hold your camera phone using two of your hands. And if you put your phone of far away from your center of the body, it really increased. The release of the image will be more shaking then. But if you move your phone closer to your buddy, I suggest you should like there, so make sure that your camera phone is more stable, okay, like this. And the third one is about the apps you use, okay? You can use just ordinary camera apps in your phone. Or my favorite is I installed the Lightroom app. Inside the light on apps, you can find the camera, I can, then you can choose that camera icon. So this is one of my favorite because since we also edit the picture in the Lightroom, so all the photoshoot and editing will be on the one hand, there is a library. Okay, and then we can also send a manual mode inside our Lightroom app. And then we can also view the greed in our camera in Lightroom Mobile. So it will be very helpful to ask to compose our food photography. Okay, so there is some tape from me about their smartphone. Let's move to the next section. 4. Project 1 : Choose The Props & Compose Your Shots !: Okay guys, In this section, I will explain to you first MOOC we want to thank is the dark mode photography using nets are alike thing. Okay, so there's a couple of techniques that we will explain to you specially for the dark mode. In this section, I will explain to you first about the props and the back ground we use for desmos, okay. The first one is the background. Actually this is just an ordinary wood plank and then we append it with the texture finish. Yeah. So it have texture and then we pain with the pain. So it won't be very reflective. So actually, to feign this burger is pretty easy. You don't have to learn rocket science to just to paint this one. I just fix the black and white. You make the dark gray like this. And then you sum conditioning materials who make the texture on our work plan. The thickness of our work plane here is about eight millimeters. Then I'll explain to you the main force that we shot today, this beautiful weather, CIMI, and then I will explain to you the prompts that we use for that mouthfuls photography to make sure that our main products will be very beautiful and then the color will be very pop out. I used the dark gray plate mostly I will use the dark gray flame or the aluminum plate, so the color of our ingredients will be very uniform. Okay? And then if you want to add a jar, I suggest that in the dark moth like this, don't start with the white shark, but you can use the glass jar like this because the glass props like this will be very adaptive. Even if you use that by going like this or the bright background, you can still use these glass. Okay, so the thing that I prevent using or the dark wood like this is the y prompts. Okay. I don't suggest you use a white prompts for this kind of settings. So if you use like the white color prompts like this in our Dartmouth frame, it will be very feasible and sometimes we'll offer power, our main subject. So I suggest not to start with this one. Yeah. So I start with something they're a slightly similar with my big grounds. So any condiment Then we put in our begun will be very visible and the color will be very beautiful. And then we also mix hip where the woods here, and then also the fabric or the pebble quote like this. We also use the dark gray one, okay, and then some cinnamon. And then we will continue with how we plan our composition. So the main angle we want to take S, the top angle, so the composition, we will create a diagonal one. Okay, then let's do the competition. One of the key. 5. Project 1 : Light Your Food !: Okay guys, we have already set our composition, set our big ground, and choose our props. And then we will set our unlike thing. And we will paint with the angle or the top angle than war did or what photography you're seeing a natural lighting. One of the important tips for you is how to lock the leg veins so we can see the direction and the focus on the lighting. In this setting, we will set the lighting on our very beautiful feather cine here. So the only jump we have to do as a block, the light rain. Okay, so in here we use like this is just ordinary, older. Yeah. I can make it a spin up very easily. So I This should look My Life theme, okay, actually for the lighting, we have to condition. Usually you have to kinda condition. The first condition is if you're lighting is already solved, then you don't have to use any diffuser in here. But if you want to compare which one is better than, I will suggest to you to put your diffuser here, okay? Yes. In the second alternative, I suggest that you put the diffuser here. The distance between our diffuser to our main subject is about 50 millimeters. So in this condition, if you're lighting is very harsh from our window there. So maybe your window is spacing like East than in the morning they're liking will be very harsh to our product that we use. If you want to feel them, they're like pain. Then because of in this attain because we already have very soft lighting here, then I won't use this one. So I think I prefer we allow our diffuser so I can have more highlight in our main subjective. Okay, if you don't have enough dark area in the upper side here. So for alternative, I also take on additional stock that I put one blackboard here in area. Okay. If you want to make this area even darker than the only thing you have to do is have it like this one. So the beauty of smartphone food photography is because since we're not liking process using smart goal is pretty simple, then I suggest that you also do some kind of alternative if you can't find a difference between using the fiercer, not using the eraser, using the blocking, and without non-blocking. So I suggest you pick every of the alternative, then you can compare which one you like the most. Okay, so let's do that for the ship. 6. Project 1 : Photoshoot Session: Okay guys, have short explanation for you using the camera. This is the Lightroom app. And then in the Lightroom app, you can find a camera I configured. And you can just tap list. And then if you want to ensure the dark mode, for example, for this one, usually the camera will automatically adjust to make sure that all of the area of our photos is well exposed. But if you want sure. The dark mode, then you have to make it darker. So you just have to swipe left to make sure that the only light you want to make sure is Perfect is only the food. So we make sure the foot area won't be overexposed. So I will make it darker. Then, guess like this one. So after we swipe left to make the exposure lower than we are ready to shoot the dark mode photolithography. I wanted. 7. Project 1 : The Result !: Okay guys, we have already done the photo shoot and then here's the result of our raw picture. 8. Project 1 : Introduction of Lightroom App: Okay, Hello guys, welcome to our editing session. Well here we will do the added UC as smartphone guys. You can use your own smartphone. Here the software or apps that we will use for these editing session is Adobe Lightroom. Well guys, it's easy enough to find it in Google Play Store or App Store. Google Play store for Android user and Napster for Ivan user. You just type light room and there will be local like this may be in Lightroom, you will see some versions. You just find the logo like this and install it. Well, lightroom is one of the most comprehensive editing apps. We can say it is complete, but indeed it has premium feature and every feature, okay. Well, I will show you if you use the features so we can still create a good feature. The standard I will show you how to do it using both free features and pet features. I will use the free features for some images. And I will also show you what it will be if you use the premium ones, okay, so you can understand it. If we use free features, we need to use two apps. The first one is Lightroom and then the other apps. But if we use the premium Lightroom only the result won't be powerful and maximum guys. Well, okay, that's a little introduction about the apps that we will use. Let's move to the next section. 9. Project 1 : Set the Light of Your Edits !: Well guys, this is the way I have already imported the image guys. So yes, we have embodied the image to Lightroom. Then when you open the image, you will see the seti below like this. This is for the editing. Well, there are a lot of menus that we can choose guys. But when we do the editing, I have a habit of at least what I have to do. You guys will not be confused. See lots of menus down here. If you use the F31, this menu will be removed. You cannot use this menu. So we use these backwards. Okay, so we will use the free features first and we'll show that the reward is really powerful tool. Well, what are those? Here? You can see that the color of this image is not really our views yet. A little bit dark and the cropping is not really well. We can still see this table and the green color is not obvious yet. The color of this packet is beat ran, but it doesn't look obvious enough. Well, we can optimize it, guys. But doing the editing it guess what? My favorite arrangement is when doing the editing may evaporate. Arrangement is well, what is my favorite arrangement of the editing process? Well, I will show you my habit when I added an image, guys, the first thing I do is using the light featured. Again in light setting, we will fix the color first. Well here there are a lot of news guys exploit you and cetera. The exposure is above the dark and the bright guys contrast is about how far the difference between dark and bright is. The breadwinner become rather and the duct will become darker. So the more these pictures brightness gets separated, the more contrast it will be. Well, we use the highlight when we added the bright part, only. Shadow becomes the shadow report like this. The shadow is semi dark like this. Again, that's the work of shadow, so forth. This semi dark area, we wanted to make it darker or brighter. White is for white bar only it is used when we want to make white part become brighter or dimmer. Highlight in white are a bit different, guys. Highlight is more about anything which has been bright. White. It's more about apart, which seems a bit white. And black is a part of the dark. 10. Project 1 : Set the Highlight of Your Edits !: I'm used to avoiding some features above. The first thing to do is to reduce the highlight line. Do I reduce the highlight? Because in this image, we don't want this bright area to be overexposed. If we find a need. We want to make the color of the picture look really reach the super-duper bright area, which is slightly to y. Well, we reduce this first so we can set the color. We want to make. All the colors still exists with no color. These appear well, so what I usually diversity is to reduce the highlights. In editing. Some people often use x Bashir. The image is not really bright or they increase the exposure data is very bright and eat Dan, Dan, well, in this case, I will reduce the highlight first here I will drag the highlights to 0. Then you will see that the image becomes more faded. Well, for the next step, I will increase Dwight. Well, why do I increase the white? Why don't we increase the brightness or exponential? If we increase the exposure all at once, all of the elements will increase two guys. And that's what we have to avoid. We want the editing to be part by part, okay? And we want to add it the bread area only. It is the area where I always use y. Why don't I use exhibition? Because you'll be used wide. Other areas will not be a vector. Expression will brighten the bright parts. So if we increase the expert, you're the area that is already bright. All be much worse. Well, Brian Aeneid, I always use white in food photography because when we increase the color, it will look natural. And good guys. Well, what's the standard for the white? I increase it onto, I like the brightness level. Well then there's nothing too bright. So the brightness is at the proper level. Well, I increased the wide in the proper level of gay. What else? You can see that we only use two settings and the color is already changed. Well, the colors changed so much just asked, are we reduced the highlight and increase the white? This time the color looks so attractive, right guys? Let's compare it to the previous one. Well, to compare it to the previous image, you attempt the image here and then hold it for a second. Well, the previous image will appear. Look at this previous image. The image looks a bit faded. And then after you can just tap the area of the image, hold it for one seconds that it will be showing you in the previous image. Here you can see that the green color looks bright and natural. This color is two. This is just to Sadducees highlight and wide. We haven't used other settings here, guys, then for the shadow, it is about personal taste. Either you want the picture to be in dark mode or by their mode. If I wanted to make the picture more darker, I will reduce the shadow, the darker. But if you want it to be brighter and not too dark, we can increase or keep it that way. It depends on you. For me, I will not change it because I want to keep both the bright and dark areas. Well. Okay, so here let's finish the light bar first in the light menu here. Well, the interesting thing is that when we said it, I used to play with 34 features. The black is used when the dark area doesn't look so dark. We can reduce it to make it darker, well, like that. But I really increase the black because the image we'll fade. Okay, well for this image, I will not change the black. I will later use these four features to use some features above, because the menu above is like an automatic menu, we want to set the exposure without affecting the dark area. When we only use expert here, for example, the weakness is that when we increase this, it will change all bad when we want to change it like this. Only the white we'll change. It won't change the shadow and the blank. So if we increase it, the dark area won't change. That's the benefit. Okay. 11. Project 1 : Sharpen the image of Your Edits !: Hello, Okay, next I will use the detailed menu. Well, detail. There are a lot of features in detail, but let me explain about the sharpening first. Well, maybe when it's sharpen it, you just make it sharp. There is no difference. There is an interesting feature in Lightroom that you most often used. Sharpening because the shopping in Lightroom is good enough. When we zoom it in. Maybe the metric want loot so sharp. Here in Lightroom, the sharpening is really at fans. When we sharpen it, the result will still be amazing, although you should eat using a smartphone. Well, this is one of the keys when you guys add in an image by using smartphone. Because the sharpness in Lightroom looks natural. I usually sat the sharpening more. I shall put it around or 100 time d amount is about 100. Well, when you do the sharpening, it will look sharper. But here there are a lot of noises in some areas, there are a lot of dots. Well, because of what? Indeed, if we increase the sharpening, it will sharpen all areas air quality. Actually, if we wanted to sharpen it, we can sharpen the texture only. It isn't necessary to sharpen the plane area, for example, apart like this, the Shereen, the syringe should not look really like this. Because this area is planning the line area is here. We increase the texture. The area without dash turns should not be increased. That's why I have a secret in Lightroom by using the masking feature, well, make sure you use masking after increasing the sharpening. I will try to increase it again and you use the masking. If you use masking, make sure you only sharpen the targeted area, especially the line area and texture area. You'd need to sharpen those areas, but you don't have to sharpen the area that doesn't the texture, the quality of the image is really focused on the important areas. Well, usually I use a lot of masking. So I optimize this feature, maybe 90 of 100. If you see it. Well, the sharpening area is only the line area. The texture area only need to sharpen the other area. So the image becomes more qualified guys. You guys can see the sharpness. It becomes great. Let's see the before and after images. This is before. This is after. Well, the colors look more beautiful. The sharpness is really great too. So for you want to bring the image, make sure that you use the setting to optimize the print date. Reason. Well, because if we don't sharpen NMOS or only sharpen without masking it, we will see a lot of thoughts, especially when we see it close up. When you don't shop on it, the image will look blurry. It's RE while we want to sharpen exact area. We use the masking feature, guys. Well, I know what size that sometimes you guys often forget that DES is important, although it doesn't really give an IV bag, but when we breed it will see the difference. 12. Project 1 : increase the Detail of Your Image !: Then here I also like to use noise reduction. Well, most reduction is used for increasing the image quality by playing the details. For your information. Don't Moria, if you use a personal computer or laptop for editing. Because all of the menus are similar to the smartphone fair share, and either on laptop or smartphone finish in Lightroom is the same. Immediate how awesome these Adobe product is and all of the settings are similar. We don't need to worry, even if you use the premium version, it will leave between smartphone and computer. If you added using a headphone deciding can be changed in computer or otherwise for you will use premium version. We will hear guys. So we have to make sure that when we increase the sharpness of the image, sometimes they're all be grains or ends that will make the image doesn't look HD. Sometimes I like to increase the noise reduction. So the granny event on the picture will disappear. I increase it around to Andy, okay? If we make it 100, it will be so smooth. Well, this looks weird, right? In other words, it looks like using a beauty came in the selfie camera, too smooth. But food for the graph, it's all about Daxter. We wanted to show the texture but don't let the textured disturbed by some grains that look like Nice. That's why I like to increase the noise reduction. Okay, maybe they somehow will increase the sharpening. Again to make a champion a beat. I included to almost fool guys. It's sharp in the right place. Then the green area disappear because we use the noise reduction. Maybe you have some questions. How about using the adder menus? There are radius detail scholars and noise reduction. I almost never use those menus because Lightroom is used for various needs. Well, if we focus on the Buddha image, this is the setting that I use. Simple enough, then this is something you can use easily without my explanation. Just drag in. Well, we have just edited the recent picture just a second ago. We have to use just a few settings, highlights here at o wide, then sharpening, masking and noise reduction, and that's it. But you can see that the image has changed a lot. You can see it before and after and the quality in extra ordinary. And this is just the image stack and with a handful. Well, it doesn't mean that we just focus on the image edited by hand vote. Because my point of view is why don't I edited using a hand von? Because if we can make good results with smartphone, maybe it will look better with the as all air. But when you see this image, maybe you are kind of confused. If you don't know it, you will wonder, what do you use to take this image? Maybe it was captured by a DSLR, but it doesn't look like using a smartphone anymore. I'm the added some settings. Well, imagine that this $100 smartphone can do picker editing with simple editing and make an awesome result. Well that's it guys. So it doesn't mean that you have to always use a smartphone for editing. If you have some budget, you can upgrade your year to the SLR camera, but you have to make sure that you must go through the editor burst like this. Well, even if you use a DSLR camera without editing, you will still get a vetted Betty image like the Brave views one. So actually either using a smartphone or using a DSLR camera. If you use a hand phone using the proper setting life would did before, the result will be better than Dance using DSLR cameras without editing at all. The boundaries are more about your editing skills, guys. That's important because in this case, we want to increase the quality of the image. 13. Project 1 : Give the Lighting Effect to Your Edits !: And then we will go to the other menu. I will explain about E fixed guys. Well, there are a lot of effects here and there are some of my variable reads. First, this area will be about dark themes, so we will use dark gray, okay? Well, don't worry about this darkest area. We will make it bright letter. When I added an image, I will usually focus on the middle first because we can set the other areas letter R. Priority is the food we have to make the appearance low grade first. That's what do we need to set? My eyes will focus on these area that when we send the highlight, shadow and white, I will lay my eyes on this area, especially when we increase the wide, don't let the food loop too much like this. For example, this picture is really too much. So keep our focus when I increase the white is just right, but too dark. Health resolve this. Okay, I will increase it until the back area is just right too, but this one is getting worse. It should not be like that. You can increase though I dance. You think that the word brightness is just right? Like then we can send that big area letter. The important thing is the food first. Next move to the Effect menu. There are a lot of effects here when editing dark, moody images like this, I often use vignette. The vignette menu is over here. If we reduce the vignette, the surrounding area will be darker. Why? Because I want to apply vignette through these image. Add a vignette is a personal tastes. Okay, I just liked the image to focus on the food so the other area will not be a distraction. So I am on purpose to darken the side area, to focus on the middle area. But when some of you use feeding it, you just use it with medieval setting. You don't see the settings be low, whereas it is important too, guys. So if you use the default vignette only, it will give a little bit of dark effect to this area if you usually get made here to make it looking at row, this one doesn't look natural enough. It means dark, like this is normal daisy, so dark, it seems that the dark circle is only on the edge. Well, if we reduce the vignette, it will be so dark that it seems like a flashlight evac. It doesn't look right. We reduce it a little bit first and then see the other settings that I often use to bound this by myself during our editing process and we will make it guys sad. The midpoint list, the darkness will spread to the middle equally. Will reduce the midpoint, increase the better and increase the roundness. This is the setting that I always use. I reduce the midpoint or I increase the feather and roundness fully. The vignette will look more natural to the middle and will not become darker. 14. Project 1 : Clear the Foggy Image of Your Edits !: Here, let's see, there's one more menu called the Hays. The haze is used for, for hawaiian. Haze is an English word in Indonesia it means fall. Well for those of you who will that the colors doesn't look obvious even after you added it. It feels like using a glazes by the lens is foggy. Well, it is foggy. Well, the haze is deciding to remove that kind of folk. It doesn't mean that our image is fully. But it's sometimes in some cameras the colors are not sharp enough. Weekend bride and enough. Dehaze is used for removing the VOC in a vogue image to make it clear. It is like when using foggy eyeglasses, we wipe it out and then it becomes clear. That's the ACE. If you have already used the settings and the color is still doesn't look obvious yet, not necessarily enough. You can increase the Dehaze. The head is like increasing contrast. The dark will be darker and the bride will be brighter. You can see the color characters will be getting stronger, the texture and the color becomes more obvious. Well, this is just an alternative. If I wanted to increase the knee hurts and I feel that it is still fading, I can increase the Dehaze again, but I think maybe I will increase just a little bit like this guy's. Then guys, I will try to crop it because this background is a little bit and naive. We'll crop it. Then. Here I will choose crop. You can crop here if you are not upbringing and user, you can steal crop it. But you can't use selective and healing. But letter in our editing I will explain about selective and healing. I will crop it here and then you can crop it to, well, I will crop the unnecessary area. I will grab it, said the crops. So the board is focused on the middle. It will be in the center. Well done, the crop has disappeared. And then I tap the tick here, you can rotate it if you want it. Guys, you just tap here and drag. But I think for this picture, I don't need to rotate it, so it's enough or cropping oil. This is the result after we added this bit here guys, this is the result of using Lightroom. Let's see, before after H2O, the brightness of these images really amazing. 15. Project 1 : Adjust the Color of Your Edits !: Next, I will explain about color. Color menu is an important thing. But why do I explain it lately? Why do I add it the colored lately too? Because among all of the other settings, the color might change. After all. If I set the color in the beginning, it might change all of the color settings. I use. Lee added the color settings letter. If I'm done with color settings, I will not worry that the color change when I said the other settings. This is above the habit, but actually if you do it in a proper way, the color one change a lot. But this is my habit only just to secure it. It doesn't mean that you'll feel like it is a mandatory thing, not at all. Guys, when you try to add a color first and then added the others, maybe the color wheel not change at all. But for itself, the eye usually added the color letter. Well, here you can choose the color menu over here. Maybe first I will explain about temperature, thing, etc. Will I rarely increase the vibrance and saturation because saturation is to increase the color density, H2O. It's so hence, if the color is less obvious, I usually increase it just a little bit because it quiet tags. In fact, if you do not carefully increase it, the image will be exaggerated. The color is too much. Well, if we increase the temperature or the color will become yellow because of the heat. If we reduce the temperature, the color will become more blue because of the cold. Well, that's how to imagine it. Well, I think this picture is good enough, but guys, sometimes a pictures seems to be blue is Dan we increase the temperature to make it more yellow. If the image is too yellow, we must call it down. It will be a little bit bluish in order to make it natural. Well, actually we want to make a natural image. When I added it, I must get a natural image first. If you like the yellowish image, It's all up to you. But as usual, I will reach the natural picture first after-tax. I will make it yellowish. It's important to have a natural image. I think my first thing is that I will like to make a neutral image first. So the color will be as it is. Because there are some people like it to be a yellow is theme. It looks like a vintage image out school. In the yellowish part like this, the interesting food is something that can actually raise our apathy, is the colored part. Well, the color variation is important to make the photo look attractive guys, one of the colors status really advertising is red, yellow, and green to make it more crash. For example, if we make a yellow theme picture, the green will be dragged into yellow. The green is not fresh anymore. Well, I think dissolve that happen to you will lie yellowish images. So it's okay if the picture looks yellowish and warm, but we have to keep the green color look fresh to let it become yellowish. Two, it looks whether, whereas the broccoli looks so fresh. Well, I will make it natural first. Let's see what I prefer, guys, if we see the gray color of the background, is the great natural or not, yellow or blue 0s. Indeed, there is non-standard guys, so you can see it at a glance. Is this safe or not? Is it yellow or blue? Let's try to make it neutral. 16. Project 1 : Use Color Mix to Your Edits!: Well, in this color menu, one of the important things that I want to explain is the mixed menu or the color mix menu. Well, I'll adjust this. And the interesting thing about Lightroom is dad. You can add it and color without a vaccine, other colors. So if we edit it previously, you, if you use saturation and vibrance, if we use admiration and increase it, all of the color will be evaporated. In any case, maybe I just want to increase the green normally. But if this iteration will, a vehicle colors in the image will change, guys? Well, meanwhile, when we are in the editing process, we must focus on the root of the problem. We don't have to change it at all. It's like when you visit a doctor and counsel, the boss, the oral stomach ache, I'm sure you will focus on curing your stomach first rather than taking some multivalent middle refresh your body whereas you are still seats and it is passed IVIG. Well, it's the same as editing an image. Now here we check which color there are still not good. Well, as usual, you add the fluid, two colors. The important color there needs to be correct. There is green, It's often enough. And the second is the red color. The green is often yellowish. It is common in the editing process. Well, let's see the green first actually the grid looks a little bit yellowish. Maybe for some of you these greenish raised enough well, but why don't we try it first? Let's move to the green part and then there are three settings here. Well, for this ethics, I will explain that hue is used for making degreed to be more yellow or more blue. Well, because the green tends to be yellowish, if we drop the green to the left, it will be more yellow. See, the broccoli looks over Coke. Well, if the broccoli looks overcook, it means that we have to drag it to each way. Alright, sliding to the level, make it more overcook it slightly to the right. Therefore, the breed will not be yellowish because we draft to the other way. The green will be fresher guys. See, the green looks brighter. Well, how much should we said the green? Just said it fairly, guys. Well, let's see it virtually. It's good enough. Well, the green color is more obvious. Then what is in the below me? New saturation and luminance saturation is the density of the color. It's like pain. How much pain layer do you want? One layer, two, layer, three years. The vector will be different. This is about the color dance at the IV, we increase it, the color wheel, it'll be more saturated. Maybe I'll make it neutral first because I think the color is just strong enough. Next, what isn't luminance? It's like a kind of green. There are bright green and dark green. It's like you mix the paint with white or black. The more you mix the white color, the brighter it looks. The more you mix the black color, the darker it looks. You want a bright red and the green? It depends on the case itself. Here I think the broccoli Sounds to be dark, so I will brighten it, but not too much. I can increase it to make it brighter, guys. Well, it looks brighter. Well, by changing the green color, it affects a bit so the image become fresher. 17. Project 1 : Adjust the Red Color in Your Edits !: Then the second is the red color. It is an appetizer color, especially for Indonesian in an Asian like spicy food. So the red color is really advertising. Sometimes in most cases the Recolor will become a bit orange, mostly. That's the most happening mistake. It is not a mistake at all, but an unedited image of them show that the recall is not really read enough. It's like when doing face makeup, if we just do art in a remote backup, it will not appear on camera, isn't it? Have you heard about an artist who will go to did stage? The Makeup will be really strong. As a result, the makeup will look natural when taking a photoshoot. Well, it is the same as food photograph. If the red color becomes too much, it looks like the voltage non-consumable. The red fields like artificial food color, mostly red color in consumer food, will tend to look orange. The color is not really that strong. Well, that's why we have to increase it in Lightroom so the color will be just right. I'm not worried about the green color because you guys will remember about the green. But if you want to increase this red color, you have to fill it when you said the color. Well, they're not increase it in March because sometimes we are happy to see a good red color, but in fact, it's too flashy. So be careful with it. But the green is still just right. Be careful when you increase the red color, tan B2, March, if you adopt it, what is the best way to increase it? Well, don't be afraid to add it with two versions and you can bear it after you added it. Compare both of them. Which one do you like the most? Okay. So you can compare it, don't worry, but here it will be better if we try it, then do nothing. The red color here, actually you have a Jewish, either you make the orange become RAD or the red become more red. So the orange we'll not be affected. For example, which is orange. It means that it will evolve this spaghetti because the spaghetti seems to be orange. In this case, I will choose red because I want to evaluate this red area, not the orange area in the noodle. For me, the noodles are good enough. Next is about XOs down. I want to make it more red so the source will not look orange. It will look more appetizing. Well, we just read here and next in hue, which way do we have to drag it left or right? If we drag the right, it will be more orange. Wow, this color becomes too orange now the right orange, well, it doesn't look attractive. Remember that styling in food photography is important. But for me the color is more important. The styling one be great if the color is bad, it makes the world look on consumable. Color is important guys. Here I will slide it to the left to map the red more red again. I slide it this way. Arrived, you can see the difference. This is little bit extreme as you can see, it changed only this area dissolves only. The noodle is not active. That's the interesting thing about the color. I increase it, But you have to estimate it. Don't be too much. It will be to read ahead who are. This time the red is more attractive. You can zoom in. We can see whether the red has already become the red of spaghetti sauce or not. Well, here, maybe I will not use iteration and luminance because I think it's just right. 18. Project 1 : Sharpen the Important Color un Your Edits !: So that's it, guys. How many setting do we use? The explanation is very long bar, the editing process is just view, so that's the editing. When we fix something, we don't need to manage settings. But as I explained before, you can do troubleshooting or it's like you can solve a problem and read a picture. And then you need to ask yourself some important questions like I asked you previously. When adding an image. First question, does the green color look good? Second, is the red color already bright? The two colors will be dominant enough in food photograph to increase appetite. I focus on the two color. Next, it's all about choices. I often use deciding part, it depends. Well, It's wrote divine blue color in food, really rare. The blue color is rare guys. Maybe some of you think that there's blue color in both, but in fact, it's a really rare. Sometimes came around Mac, the color becomes Louis and especially a dark theme photo like this. This is the false color center or from the camera, sometimes a slight blue color appears. Well, if you are assassinate enough, you can see the blue collar, but some of you count CE. Is there any blue color here? But there's no blue in the boot. So I turned it off. To the background. I turn off blues and purples and science there are purple and being foods. It's now need to turn it off. Either you use a DSLR camera or smartphone camera. Sometimes purple and blue can appear automatically. I have other options. I just blew and then thrown up the saturation these days and days, gay with just these within off the saturation by sliding it on the 0's of pine. Well, just to make sure that there are not unnecessarily colors that we don't need. Well, so the color will be focused on red, green, yellow, and natural colors. It will be more focus. Well, we have already edited this guy see before ouster. If you think that the police not really a vector. Fortunately, the blue is not a vector in the camera, so it just right. But next time sometimes when he added an image, you will realize the blue color relies it or not. When we reduce it, the image will be much better. Because the colors become more obvious, especially the scholar, a gay, because if we turn off the color and that shouldn't exist, the real color will look brighter. Well, Bad me ask you, which one are you easily attracted to? The red field width, wide around it, or the red filled with blue around it, guys? Of course, the red filled with white color around it that is broader than the red are filled with blue collar around it. It's the semester, this is, the blue color is not really obvious. Maybe it is because the blue has already spread to all areas. It will not really be obvious if it's covered by blue color as a result of the camera a VAX. Again, if we turn it off, the color will be brighter. That's about these image. But what if we want a bright on a specific area, like how to do it? We will add it with our app called Snapseed guys. In Snapseed, we can brighten some specific areas where I'll actually like room can do it too for premium users, you can use the selective menu. But first I will explain for the non-brand IAM users. Before, after. 19. Project 1 : Create the Version to Your Edits !: Hello guys. There's something left from the session due to our patient. When we move to Snapseed, we miss one thing I have to explain to you, there are two additional things. The first one is when you doubt with these editing whether it is good enough or not. If you wanted to create the other versions to compare, what should we do? You can choose in the versions menu or gay. Then you create the version. For example, baz 1.1. I name it tutorial because it is for auditory or usage will create. You can add it again, guys, and then we can save it again later. After you added it, for example, the worst 11 to make the error, you just add to create the other one. For example, don't just brighten it. It is too bad, but I need the contrast. Mainly I will make it darker. Then we just version again, I induce create version again. For example, there's 1.1 and then create, you can choose which one you like, the first one or the second one. Then you choose it. So you can compare if the image has different editing versions. If you're done, just choose Apply and then it's done. That's the first one. The second is, I've explained how to export an image. When you are done. You just choose here. Then just this one. Then you choose Export to camera roll. It's done, guys, just export to camera roll and it's done. The picture will be saved into your smartphone gallery. Next, we will move to the next application called Snapseed. But snaps it so the Lightroom for me is to fix the overall colors, especially in full color. The colors are just greed when it looks dark and we want to Brian an IV. This is too bright and we want to darken it, or maybe especially to brighten a dark image. We only added in certain area. This area, this area. Here we want to add it as certain area using Snapseed. But Lightroom is about the color generally. In Snapseed, I am Don't change the color. I just play with the brightness and darkness in certain areas in the image. Overall, we're done. Before. After. 20. Project 1 : Introduction of Snapseed App: For you still feel it's out of place. We will add it in Snapseed. Snapseed can be searched here, just type in App Store or Google Play Store. And you can find this, this app is popularly enough or you use smartphone. And it has been verified. We've seen that the quality of the editing result is grade and the quality of the image is not reduced. So it's fine. After installing it, you can go into the apps directly like this, and then you can just click Open and choose the image. Before. After. 21. Project 1 : Fix Certains Area of Your Edits !: Before, after. Alright guys, after we imported, the image will be like this. This picture has been edited before. What hold the color is quite sharp and good. Then try to buy them these area because I think these areas too dark. I will write in this area, the inside area, and a plant to make it gray. Here I just used the tools menu. Here. I will not use all features, guys, because basically we have done a lot of things in Lightroom before. So here we only change certain parts. My favorite menu that I like to use are selective and healing menus here. Did you know that it's lactose and healing in Lightroom are locked. It is only for premium users. You can see it here. Well, slag dev and healing torts are enough mode by the volt because this is paper menus. That's why when we need to use lactose and healing, we use the similar tools in Snapseed. We only use those to. Selective is like if you want to choose Slack, if you just use the plus button here, makes sure that the plus becomes blue and then that one saw the missing ball. We'll appear when it just dismissing volume, just tap and click B. If you accidentally tap once, it will appear once again, if you choose the plus button, it will add. If you select the plus button, it will add more, so it becomes three. Now, we choose this 1 first. I erase it just at once and just delay once again. And the lady and I tried to slide it to this area. Well, guys, this area is blue or guy will try again. I delayed it first and then make sure the plus power becomes blue like this. It's ready to type inside these areas. So the BC bullet peer see the busy but disappeared, right? B for brightness guys, you can see it here. If you can use two fingers, just use it. And then try to zoom in using two fingers. Open it outside and open it inside like this. Use two fingers to zoom like this. That red area is affected area by our setting. For example, we want to brighten this rate affected area. You can change these settings, should have it up and down. You can just swipe up and down like this in all areas of the image. So the option will appear there. You can choose which setting you want, the brightness contrast, saturation or structure. For me, I use brightness only so I brought an upsert Danes areas. Well like that. We can buy them something like that so you don't have to worry, we can brighten it. And then for example, if the color tends to be bad, maybe you can increase the saturation. Maybe we can see the contrast. We increase it a little bit because there are not other choices just at resin and contrast, although the saturation and contrasts are rarely used in Lightroom. But for this one, because the side area is just okay, it's not a problem. Well, I will increase the brightness to make it brighter. Yeah, has lagged data. We can change the surrounding area if you want to add and brought on it again here you can choose these to make it loop blue like this. And you've deb once again in that area. This second B appears, you can zoom the second BB&N out. Just choose it and slide your fingers open and close. You just smoke close your fingers are gay. And gas the direction which we want to slide it to. For example, we want to brighten this dark area. You just swipe it up, just brightness. Previously swipe up and down to adjust the mode as light right and left for Dr. Brian, settings. Source like gripe to brighten it, a slight lab is to darken it like that. You can see it here. Maybe I want a pride in it a little bit. 22. Project 1 : Erase the Dirty Area on Your Edits !: Well guys, maybe some areas seems a little bit dirty like this, but how to brighten it? After you're done with this 1 first, you just use tools again. Then Jews healing. Healing am the work of building is really easy. You just zoom it in. It will be better if you enlarge it to the max. It will be more accurate. And we want to clean these dirty area just bracket like this. It will disappear, guys. As easy as that, just brush the dirty area. It will disappear. Here. There are some spots we can erased them. But the key is that you have to zoom in very large or gay. The result will be more accurate. Like that. There are some spots here. We can erase it naturally. It's clean, it looks fairly good. We erase this line to white color here. We have to erase these white areas are the beaker will be more need. Well, again, we erase blind gate once again, I think the white is too much. Disappear too much. See the image looks more professional. There's a few here. For an OCD person, this war will be satisfying. Before those of you who don't really like the details, you don't have to pay attention to the deeper details. So it's okay. In case you have more time, you can fix the image. That's the image. The edge parts steels have some white spots. Oops, if you accidentally brushes, you can choose these to go back again. See it's back again. Well, there are some dirty spots here. Some spots. We tried to erase it, pushed it disappear. We call it magic. This is not naturally enough. I will zoom it in more detail. I will brush the spot only gay. And then here there's white part that we will also erase. The background is not good enough either. Actually, I would like to use Healing Brush in Snapseed because it's a little bit heavy in Lightroom. So in Snapseed, it is far lighter. Let's see the before and after images, but way I made a little mistake. Here. The image is broken. So back again using these one previously with ticket first, gets done guys. And if you see the before and after majors, it's similar to Lightroom. Use your thumbs hold a second, it will change. There are some spots in the before image, but the after emits 0s, so clean. That's the function of Snapseed guys. For those of you who regret after editing a certain area in Snapseed, how to get back again, you can choose here and then you see view edit. This menu again, show which part you added it before. If there's an area that you will not add it, you can delay the step off the process. It is for those of you who want to go back again. That's all done. We just export the image we choose here. And then click Save. I've run the previous image. Do you want to modify that picture with the new one or not? For me because we want to keep those files. I just don't low. But oops, hold on. I choose this, then export and then I choose, Save a copy. It will not override the previous image. We have the previous image that is not added it and the edited image. But if you want to overwrite the feature, you just click Save. It will be overwrite and automatically default. The previous picture will change with the new one. Well, that's all about using Snapseed guys. It's simple, right? Because the Lightroom tools are powerful enough. We only correct the little party in Snapseed. Okay, so that's for the editing session and then we move to the next session, guys. 23. Project 2 : Choose The Right Props !: Okay guys, this actually is very interesting because we will short the natural lightning with bright mode k. So for the big ground, actually this is just the same with playing we used before, but, uh, we do an extra finishing. You don't have to create the exact same texture like this. Actually, any texture is better than no texture at all for me. So if you have the background with structure is very good. And then we paint this section board with the white dwarf pain. Yeah. Okay. So this book playing thickness as about seven to eight millimeters? Yeah. Okay. So and then for the bride MOOC with photography, I suggest you have the small props like this, the white one. This is actually very cheap. Yeah, you can find an online store near your house maybe or near your studio. I'm sure some of this is even below $1. Okay. So we put the ingredients inside our small bowl. Yeah, Like this one shoe. And then the main forth we showed as salad. Okay, This is very beautiful and colorful Sabbath, but mostly we use the white and glass props to make sure that the color is the main subject we want to shoot. Okay? So we also use the light gray and gray here. Then it will be slightly same color with our backgrounds. So if just add a texture but don't confuse people what to see, okay? Because if you use like maybe a dark blue, maybe the blue with patterned fabric. If you put in this background, then it will add an adder focus outside of your food. Then it will make people difficult to find out which one is the main focus. Okay, so I used the fabric there is as simple as possible. Then. I also often use the glass like this. So because it is see-through, so it will be very adaptive even FeO should within bridesmaids with photography or the dark mode. Okay. And then I also put the olive oil here in the glass, so it will be very nice and match the color. And overall our props here will be a bribe. Okay? And then we also used the chopping board. This is made from marble. Actually, some students asked me why you'd use the white board In the white background is the same. But for me, have you ever sat the prompts in the same level? And then it looks like it doesn't look really nice. Because actually one of the reason is because we don't use the leveling. What is leveling? Leveling is at that the friends of the Hague of our props here so we can put the prompts hire using this chopping board. So it will make the variation. We then our prop setting. Okay, So this is all the explanation about the props we use. Props collection is pretty important for me because if we use the right props for the write mode, then it will be very easy for you who should end to end it, okay? But for you only have limited prompts, you don't have to worry. You still can't shot, then you can enhance it in the editing part. Okay, so let's do the composition part. 25. Project 2 : Light Your Food 7 Shoot !: Okay guys, In this section, I will explain a little bit about the light pain. So it's quite different than it should be four. This time, I will shoot from right here, this technique called bakelite thing. Okay, so the last thing come from the back of our foot, from there, right through here. So backlighting will give special effects to our food photography because it will increase the highlight in our tooth here. So it will be more three dimensional. Okay? So the highlight will be very beautiful Since our weather here is spreading nice. Little cloudy. So this shadow is very nice even if we don't or using the diffuser here. But if your window lighting is very hard, you just simply have the fuser here like this. Okay. Yeah, you can just simply a diffuser like this. So the horse-like thing will be filtered from our diffuser. Chew our food here. If you want to add the diffuser like this, the distance between our food through our diffuser is about 40 to 50 centimeters. Okay, so today we won't use this one because I think the lighting is already in lines from there because this window is facing south. So it's very safe if we use and the lighting is also breathing nice. Okay. So let's do that for the ships. 26. Project 2 : The Result !: Okay guys, we have done for the photo shoot and then let's see the raw picture from our smartphone. You can imagine we can create such a beautiful good photography using only smartphone and natural lighting. So you can exactly practice this method in your home using your own smartphone and very simple tools, okay? You don't even use any lighting at all because you only utilize the window lighting. Okay. So in this backline, I also use the curtain to make sure that the light only from here. If your windows are wide open, then you can just block them here using the dark or so, the lighting will be very focused from this area to here. So delighting from the site window one effect, our wood here. Okay. 27. Project 2 : Edit Your Image in Lightroom !: Okay, We'll come back to the editing session, Guys. Let's do some readers. I will ask you something after you'll learn about editing in the previous Asian lads remember it again. What will we do first? Answer yourself, what's the first thing we have to do? Inanna thing. I've explained it to you all and now we proved that the editing will be quick as long as you know the technique as you sold first, I will use light and then I reduce the highlight exactly the same. We secured a bright color verse due to highlight or reduction, the picture will be third two brighter it, I never use x push you. It's rare. I will use white part first because when we price and the white, the bright color will be more amazing. Okay? Well, I think it's maximum enough. If I press it again, it will become too wide. I will brighten it until it looks natural. That means don't set it to white in that area. Well, then even if I breath into wide, it still looks dark. Here. The shadow part, we'll take a role in bright rim image like this. Usually I increase the shadow, usually because the dark area is still visible just like in the broccoli. It's dark, right? I will make it brighter. I increase the shadow. Well, when I increase it, the color becomes more stand down. You can see it. We can compare it only with three settings. Highlight, shadow, and wide. Here guys be after the colors become more obvious. Well, that's the function of using shadow. If we turn the shadow, it will be very dark. There's an area that we want to brighten it, so we will brighten this dark area. That's the interesting thing about these adding. The other areas get affected. It will not happen in this area. Take a look. Outer area is not affected at all. But if you want to provide any using this, for example, I turn off the shadow and I increase the exposure. But if I use exposure, it will affect all sections. The right one will be destroyed too. So be careful we fixed part by parts, so all of the section will be good. Well, how much should we increase the shadow as maximum as you think it will be to make it look great, tastes match. Okay, hold on. I think it's enough. Then what's the next settings? Usually I move to the detail menu. In detail here we will increase the sharpening until it's sharp, and then I increase the masking so the picture will not get some spots. I increase the noise reduction. Sometimes you'll notice that I said a lot of sharpness. But now why do I only said this much where it does the masking half difference addicts, that's all about habit guys. There's not exact number for dad said it approximately. No need to make it 100 exactly. For sure. I will increase it. Answer, it's our most full. And then I increase the noise reduction allele bit so image quality will look different. You can see the before and after images, before, after. Again. Next, we will use effects here for private picture, I rarely use vignette. Vignette is for bright images. If I use a figure with that setting before, I reduced the midpoint and increase the better and roundness or it looks cloudy. I rarely use vignette for bright images because I think if we want surprise the knee image just brightened enough. It using the bright background if we terminate, I think it's not good enough. But maybe there are a few people like it. But here I would like to make it really bright. And if I want to make it dark, I use a darker background. Then next we will use well guys, I will use, Let's see here. I turn it back first. It's approximately here, not really 0 part in the middle. Do we need the DAs when the color is quite bright, it's not necessary actually, but we will increase it if it's again, use a performing it's not a VAD table. I think we don't need to increase the dehaze in this image. And then take a look at the color side is the color already okay? Next question is the green already, right? Is the red already? The green is good enough. I think the red is quite bright and no k. I think it's just right. Maybe for those of you are thinking it tends to look pink or K. Let's go to the color menu. Take a loop once should we do to make the red color become more red? We said it in the luminance for a matter of bright and dark colors or K. We reduce it a little bit so it makes it dark red, something like that. Let's just done, Well, that's it. So from the image we know that it's rule is super fine. Actually for this image, I think we don't need to do much editing. But I want to explain one thing you can move to light and then choose curve. Curve is actually for you guys want the image to have an Instagram, I believe act like a moody evac. How to do it? This is a bright and construct thing. Image. So the image looks bright and contrast. If we want to make a moody EVA, how to do it? You can just use the LEA I use this dot step one, step one, and tap ones. Let's try it once and you can see there are three dots. Now. What do you use of these dots? Where are the dots in the middle of the square line? If we increase it, it will not move. This dots are the benchmark. In this point I increase it. Actually, we will not use the middle and the bad guys that starts are the benchmarks. If I increase it, this becomes a dark area. This is the break area. This is our image. If we want to increase it in this area, what does it mean? We pry them the dark area. This is the bright area. If you want to darken the breath area, we move down the bright areas are the white area will be dark. See, see the white area. Well it turns dark. If we increase these, the dark area will be Pride. Well, the dark area like this, if we increase it, it will be pried. It turns brighter. If we pull it from below, it means third area will be darker. See the black, especially this black area, guys, you can see the changes of the colors. Black becomes gray, deploy becomes gray. For moody picture sky is because the contrast is not really strong. We change the plaque into the gray like this. See the difference is the Witcher becomes a bit moody. If it's just normally much, we increase it until it becomes a moody picture. Well, we only changed those two curve. We change it here. If it's not too moody, increase the middle. Pepe ever seen a moody image like this on Instagram? We can use these way of editing in Lightroom again, we can handle the settings we want him. But in this image I want to make an ordinary contrast. I'm not going to change it. I will just explain it for you will like the moody image. You can use debt setting. It's a quick and then we're done with Lightroom. Then next I will introduce an interesting apps to add some heavenly light. What is the heavenly light? Especially for Friday manages. This is so interesting basically for bright and dark areas before, after. 28. Project 2 : Edit Your Image in Lens Distortions !: We will try to use another app called lens distortion. What's the function of these lens distortion? It is to add a heavenly light to the image. What does it mean? So let's try it. Just type less distortion. In Apple's App Stores, There are free and premium features. You can use the feature and make a good quality result. We open it first when it is already open, insert the image and then this Eric's like this will appear. What it stays, it will appear directly. So we use the free one, but the result is good enough and we will often use this. You choose these and then glide appears immediately, guys. The common mistake that album happens is that the circle or light will appear. The common mistake will appear when we just use a view like this, it will look unnatural. So if you want to make it more natural, you just enlarge it to spread it. And then if this is too bright, we can reduce it. You can use it here. Here's the opacity and reduce it. It will look more natural. Maybe I will set it like this. So enlarge in and then set it like this guy's. Then we take it and H2O Lights event appears like the morning sunlight. Let's see the weaver and after images, before, after Jews, which one you lie. It's not a bother right and wrong editing when you are in doubt, just make another option. And then are some people who about which one day like most. After these, just choose the checkmark, that book and then you guys can choose Export. Then Josie export the image, it's done. And then after exporting, you gain excess the image in your smartphone gallery. It simple enough for lens distortion is in it. The vagus, interesting enough for us to use in our edited immediates, okay. And our debt, all the things that we can apply. And then we will move to the next session. Before. After. 29. Project 3 : Choose The Right Props !: Okay guys, In this section we'll be very interesting because we will do the dark moth photography using natural light. And this time we will take the front angle, okay, before we have taken the top anger. And then this time I will give tips about how to create a front angle. Okay, So we will shoot the very beautiful donuts here. So because I want you to take on angles. So in this scene, I will make sure that the background will not be empty. So I've put the prompts there is higher okay, before, okay, So it will be a nice big ground here. Since I don't have any higher drops, then I'll just thank many of my topping work here. So it will be higher. So if I think the front angle, it will be the background, okay, the blur background. Okay. And then I also use the tray like this. This is higher, actually, I profess fully set the knife here. So it will also be the background. So the background will be higher. It will be very different if I put the knife here and then we think the front angle, it will not be feasible. Okay, so the increase the mood of the scene and to increase the texture in our background. So we put it like this. So I also have the aluminum cap here. I put cinnamon inside. So I also have Allman in the small aluminum tray like this. I have tips for you. If you don't have, like many ingredients will show. Actually the ingredients to show mostly is L1 here because I don't have any more ingredients, but you don't have to worry. You have to keep reminded that you have control to change the form of the ingredients you have, like only a half hour one, but I create three forms of almonds. Actually mostly I only have the element but a grid, three forms of an element here, I would like this and then I slide the Amman, the form will be changed. And then I also crashed the Ulman. So I have three form and then I put it in many different crops like this, okay? And I put in tray, even if it's only a woman, but the form will be very different. Okay. So I also used the wooden spoon here, and then also I use, this is the chocolate inside the small glass. Actually, this is quite bright, but I'm planning to put it in the back of our book. Then we block here, so it will be darker. So I think it will be still okay. And then I also put the doughnut here. And then I also have the gray aluminum plate. Okay. And then I also used the dark tablecloth like this, k. So this is the, all the props we choose. Mostly the prompt we choose is to be trained the gray, the dark one, and then the glass one. Okay, so then if you choose the props right, then it will be very easy to compose a 100 K. And then we will continue through this section, which we compose all of this props into the Bureau volume H. Okay, so let's move to the next section. 31. Project 3 : Light Your Food & Shoot !: Hey guys, in this section, I will explain to you about the lighting, okay, In this sin, this is very interesting because we will set the scene in a dark mode. And then this one we will take with the 45 degree or front angle, will compare between 45 degree or the front angle. Okay. So for the lighting, you can see that our source of light thing in my right side and then I blocked the lighting in the front of our donuts here and the backside for the ambience. We also block with this one, large Blackboard. Yeah. So the only source of lighting is from here. So the lighting from here will affect our donuts here, and then the direction of the lighting will be very obvious. Yeah, as you can see, the lighting come through this area and then will affect our doughnut here, will bring a beautiful light here with very clear direction. And then we also plan that this area will be the shadow, so there will be no source of lighting from here. Hey, the only source for lighting is from here. So and then because we sent our scene is toward the wrong angle, then we plan to make crops a little bit higher. Okay. So the backside and make it higher so we stack the cutting board higher. Yeah. So to make an ambience, so we planned it. We don't want you to make the backside of our background is empty, so we put it higher, okay? And then we also put the knife in a vertical position so it will be higher. So in the back area will be the ambiance of our donor. And then to add the texture, we also put the crumble here. So we pulled a scramble to add more texture. So the picture will be very rich k. So there is our set up, the whole center of our scene here and then the source of lightning, as you can see that this is the sort of light will come through here and then we'll give the beautiful lighting shoe our donor. 32. Project 3 : The Result !: Okay guys. Yes, we have already taken the photo shoot and then here's the raw photo result. As I mentioned before, they are born and natural lighting photography sometimes we cannot see the direction of the light because we can't control the light anyway. Sometimes it can be very harsh, but sometimes it can be very soft, like word There's condition. The lighting is quite soft because it's getting late here. You don't have to worry because since we have already blocking the sum of the area and then we also can adjust again the highlight and shadow in our light room. So the contrast will be higher, but the contrast will be very nature or even if we added in Lightroom, but the result will be very, very natural. 33. Project 3 : Edit Your Image in Lightroom !: Okay guys, we meet again in these editing session. What are we going to do here? And what is the goal we will get this time? Well, first, if you feel so first tried it during the editing process, you feel like, why is the result not really good? I still don't get the veal for eight yet. Don't worry, guys, don't panic. Sometimes you just need a sharp break and blame with the editing. Because sometimes when we look at the photo, how come the results are limited and too bad? In the editing process, there are some areas that we can touch up again, guys. If you are a first JIT, just take a sharp break and do a little editing. Just rest for awhile. And I often enough do that to get the mood back to continue editing. Just chill and play with my anti-B. I found that a picture can be restored better. It will look good. This period. We'll come again. I do that also when doing photo shoots. Sam asked this image, when you fill this image is not good enough. The background is darker and there are so many things that make it not good enough. We fixed the mode first by doing the editing, okay? Well, see how far we can increase the image quality. Well, we can try it. Again. What should we do first? I hold in decision, you can remember the first thing we need to do. So we reduce highlight to 0 and then increase the y. But y is the result bad. It's not good enough. Just like what I explained before, the blues appears. That is why I explained before, okay, for the blues and times I like to add it the blue letter in the color menu because this blue is quite visible. Sometimes I go to color and turn off the blue first. I just listened, then I go to the back and turn all of these. See, the blue has disappeared. You can see guys, the green becomes natural than this color needs to be fixed. Because these brown bands to be a bit radish. How to do it, just this one and just read, read or Dan Brown, if it's to read some data to us, Let it to the yellow area in order to make the color look normal. Well, again, it's not reddish anymore. It's like the brown looks too red, just like the previous one, normal like this to read. We slide it to the right and make it more yellow so it will look normal again. Well, from this we can see the result quickly. It is quite visible, so we go back to the light. You can just whether you want to increase the shadow or not, Maybe if I darken it, the background will be very black. Well, let's see here I want to increase the details here. It's good to focus on the food part. If we darken the background to the max, will erase the details. I will increase the shadows or delete tilts are still visible. It's quite visible overall. Then do we need to increase the black? Maybe I will do nothing for the black. Next, let's go to the next part. It's because this is quiet, disturbing. I will change the process. I will crop this first to make it more comfortable. Well, it's a really amazing guys. This is before and after. Let's go to the detail spark in the details park. We tried to add it quickly. Do it quickly, sharpening, masking and noise reduction, gas, it's fast enough, guys. It's done for sharpening. Very good. And Dan, next, let's go to knee events part. I will try to use vignette like the previous load. This part is quite bright. This bar is just write, this part is overbroad because I think the color and texture are precede each other. So I will darken it a little bit. I will use vignette and don't forget to reduce the mid pine and sad the vendor and roundness full. Well, you can see it more natural that they're area looks more comfortable to see. Hopes of gay? Yes, and we're done here. Gay, let's see it again. This is the result. Compare it before. After. When we edit an image, you have to open a check the before and after image because you can't see that during the photo shoot, the image looks bad and we don't know why. Whereas we can edit it, just interview minutes and then the picture becomes amazing. Well, it will increase them would do read the editing. During the editing process, the mood will be better because the editing result becomes better. And is there any untyped that we can use? For you? We use premium features. Sometimes there's something you can do in Lightroom. For example, if you wanted to blurred the background, we can use selective here. Then I often use these two. I use the round and circle the word only like this. Then I just this part over here. I just it once and it looks like the other area. Well, if it's laying the other area, it means we'd setting, does it affect it? The red color, blue, one in the other area, which is affected by deciding it will not affect the food part if an event, a view here I want to blur the other area using the tails and then I reduce the sharpness. The outer area, the shopping list will be reduced. The background becomes more blurry. Okay, let's see. The before and after images to leave for a natural images are dark, but it will be more blurry if you want it, if you want to add in the previous one, just, just like div and then there will be some dots here. You can just this one and then just neat, they'll set that until this spine. You can set it fall to make it more blurry. The image it has neutral blur now and it looks more focus. It helps to make our product more standout than the background. Make it more bokeh or more blurry in the background. That's for editing. And sometimes jurors for an alternative. Sometimes I just loved it and then I choose it. Sometimes if I want the food area to become more colorful, I will reduce the saturation in the background. So it becomes more colorful. I reduce it a little bit. So I just the previous settings, I just had colored part and then reduce the saturation. So you can see this iteration of the outer area, it becomes less and the color fades. The food colors become more standard out. That's the technique I use. If I feel that the image doesn't not stand out yet. There's some additional tips. If you want to do some things, change the appearance of the image, and add some options. That's the setting for this image. It's quick enough, isn't it? You don't need to be frustrated to ring editing. You can remember the main settings. It will change a lot of things in the image. If you see something wrong while taking a photoshoot, just added it for a second and you can see, wow, it can be better. So continue with it. That's the setting for this editing and dengue guys, let's move to the next session. Before, after. 34. Project 4 : Choose The Right Props !: Hey guys. In this section, I will explain to you how to take the natural lighting, food photography using white background. And then this time, I will explain to you how we pick the Top Shot for bright mood photography using. That's where I like using smartphone. Okay, I will explain to you about a big guy and the prompts, okay? The first I will explain to you about a big ground. We paint a bigger into the light gray with the same area as the ground we used before. And then our main forth here is the pizza, and then we load a pizza. We use the wooden cutting board like this, so it will give the color in our background. We also use the small bowl like this. Okay, I have a tips for you. Seems we use the America in our pizza, then sometimes we are confused. They'll paprika is too weak for a props, okay, if we put the very large paprika and our vagrant here as the prompts, it will distract the focus, okay, maybe people will focus on the topic of first rather than our pizza. Okay? So actually, if you face the situation like this, you have to remind that you have control to change the form of the paprika, okay? And then this time we make the paprika into the molecule like this. So it can add the color of Fabrega in our background, but it won't be very big. Okay, So the second one, we use the same leaf here. And then another prompts we use if the glassware like this, so it will be very suitable for Bill. And then we also used the tablecloth like this, also the nature of color. So the color of our pizza and our continent will be very puff out. And then I also put another friend ingredient like mushroom and the cherry tomatoes. And then for the angle of this feature will shop in of angle and in this image then we will compose, we will use the negative space. You have to remind that actually negative space is very powerful in food photography. Okay, I will explain to you what is positive space and negative space. Positive space is the area. Have our subject there and our prompts there. The negative space is only the background negative space, especially as the empty area of our image. It's really hard to use the image that is full of prompts. Okay? So if we provide the negative space in our image, graphic designer, then use our image will be very easy to put the copywriting or promo for discount and for another copywriting. So it will be very easy to use our image if we also profile the negative space in our image. 36. Project 4 : Light Your Food & Shoot !: Okay, guys, We have already due to competition park and then your CMS, the lighting part. Okay. In the real situation, you have to turn off all the lights so your room will be very dark and then the liking here will be very obvious, okay, less than of our lights so you can see how the situation will be when you are doing a photo shoot, the room will be very large and then the likely will be? Yes. Okay. So let's turn off the light. Okay. So okay guys, Tennessee, me. Okay. Let's see. Patient will be very dark like this, but the lightning will be very, very nice. And then the shadow also will be very obvious k. So from this I think we can create the direction of the light day, okay, Then last the light again. K, Then explanation about the light pain. Then let's do the for the ship. 37. Project 4 : Edit Your Image in Lightroom !: Okay, welcome back to the editing session. We will explore the editing again. Don't take it too seriously when Nadia thing guys, just enjoy it. Be adventurous. Considered this as a new adventure. Don't be too stress and a red to be wrong. Actually, the adventure inanity is about making some versions. Of course guys will see letter which part you can improve. Okay guys, the process is the same width, the previous one for our editing process. Silver thing first, what is the first app? Gas ID? We start from the light and then what do we usually do first to help glue? My editing step is actually the same for every editing process. I rarely change in. I reduced the highlight first. She killed the color, don't make it too much. Then we increase the brightness by using the white. Has our two main settings, our highlight and white. For the shadow. It depends on your days. You want to make the mood become darker or brighter. If you wanted to dark mode, you could reduce the shadow. If you want a bright mood, you could increase this shadow. This time maybe we'll use the flight mode so I increase the shadow fully so it all will be visible and clear. If you zoom it in, it will still not be sharp yet. We can increase it ladder. Well, and then I'll do we need the black actually the blood is for him for XYZ, if I think the picture is the flat, the contrast is not visible yet Not really strong. Sometimes I increase the black allele will be to make it reach because the contrast is mixing between bright and dark, white and black. If there's a white part like this, it will be more contrast and texture. For example, with the black absolute literally. So the black-and-white are mixed together to create the external. Sometimes if it's feels division, I reduced the black a little bit. What I never do is that if I increase the black, it's rare and here and then what else should we do besides this force? What next? Let's move. It's the same with the previous one. We move through the lethal spot and then here I increase the sharpening, the masking so the sharpness will look the Rinne. See before, after the sharpeners has to become different. And then I increase the noise reduction. The image quality become better. Looks, the image quality becomes better. Before, after the colors look more obvious. Well, and then guys will look in the effect part here. Do you want to use vignette? It depends on your taste thing yet we'll make more focus on the food. It depends on you. Which one do you prefer? Actually, there is no wrong and right away, it depends on the mood we wanted to put in our image. I suggest if you will, just start to learn mag two or three alternative result, at least dawn be just one result. You guys can see and compare which one you like most. Well, in this image, maybe because I decided to make it bright, I will not use in yet. But if you like it, go on for you to think that the image is less contrast. You can increase the haze to make it stand out. For me. It's good enough. Is it good enough or the color? I think the red and the green all are ready. Gould tried to send the green color. Tech loop, tried to make a fresh green. Slide it a little bit. Well it's better. I think the previous green stands to be yellowish. But don't be too much. If it is like this, the green we'll become bluish. It seems to be like plastic, less natural and everything is too much and it's not good. It's already good. Here I will show if we use premium features, we can use lactose and healing here. Previously, I used snapped it. Now I show you using my Grammarly without using Snapseed. Agai here, which area that we wanted to write them. For example, the dosage is kind of pale. I want to increase the shells each color. Just like Dave and here, 2s plus mark. Here, we can manually choose either the shear called brush or the gradient one. I often do these two things. Which is the middle for us. If you have already choosing the circle one, you just tap once to make it a circle. Well, the red area is the area that we want to change this adding ladder, which is here. Then the interesting thing in Lightroom is that we can now edit the color area. Setting has just appeared. This adding from here to here belongs to this circle. We can choose the color part. We can set the color settings. Well, because the color is not so obvious, I will try using saturation. Well, and then I slide it to the rat to make it more rat. Because this red is fireplace. I will mix it with a few yellow. Okay. Let's try it. I will use the haze a bit. It doesn't evoke anything. Guys. A little bit. It doesn't evoke anything. Okay. So we will increase the color. Well, to make it not really wide. Then what else? Try to erase the dots. Let's erase it. Just Healy. And then there are lot of options here. You can tap here and hold and swab it up. And I'll be down here because I use a most cursor. So r will release it for us. I will tap here and hold it. So tap in that area, then hold up and down, hold truck up and down to change the size of the brush. And then you just brush it here like that. It will disappear soon. Well, the interesting thing here is that we can slide it which way we want to start. Well, it can be. But for me sometimes are never happens. It looks like NADH actually it is easier to use Snapseed form the Healing Brush. For you to do the Healing Brush faster. You can use Napster really it so fast. We delayed this one. Well, so the picture looks cleaner. Again. Just brush it. Yes, one more. Wow. Yes, the Beta is better after we fix it and then we check it again. I'll gay, It's just ride. Just ride. Well, this is our setting for these editing. Nice. You can see that we can try to compare the before natural images before. After a while it looks brighter maybe for you, I wanted to make it brighter and it has already stopped. We can use curve. Again. We play with three dots in the curve. Actually, it is to change the super dark areas. Sometimes we increase the middle area. Well ingredient so it will be bright overall. Like this. But going crazy too much because it evac so much. I wanted to increase curve. I will do it later. Okay. This is middle area, not dark and not pride. We will change the brightness. It will be bright up here, it will be dark down here. Okay? It is important to give credence here, this one and this one won't move. Except we want to move it. Yes, it turns brighter. Last one, don't forget to crop the unimportant area because the block is still visible. Crop it here, crop it here, a view. Crop it here. Okay. Very good. Yes, it is a video. Louise will die. We will do healing brush again. Don't forget to clean it up to make it more amazing. Okay, Wow. It's so quick to add it as an n. Yes, the editing process doesn't take a long time. Maybe you think I explained it too long in the first Asia and of the editing? Because I did the editing while explain it at the same time. As long as you understand the setting, you will not find it difficult. Well, that's it. And then guys, actually, it's a comfortable enough for you within that setting is already good and you want to copy paste it to another picture. You're just choose these above and then copy this adding. Then guys move to another picture and then for example, the previous image. Just choose this and then paste the settings where you wanted to copy paste this adding, well we're done and dangerous, export it and ready to pause. Well, who knows? Smartphone photograph is quiet awesome too. It depends on yourself about how your editing increased new image quality. Before, after. 38. Project 4 : The Result !: Okay guys, We have done a photo shoot and then here's the result of their raw photo from ours mindful. 39. Bye bye !: Okay, Here's finally we come to the end of our course. Okay? I rephrase, this is not the end, but this is the star for you. Okay? So my Eclipse case, after you watch our costs from the first until now, the end of the course, okay? I suggest that when you practice, you can also practice in your home and then you can practice while opening the course again, okay? Which one? The scene you want to recreate, and then you play the scene. So it looks like I'm together with you to create the scene. Okay. To do the photo shoot. It's my tape because sometimes it quite impossible to remember all the tapes from start until the end of the course. So I usually when I do the practice something new, I also opened the course beside me so I can do the photoshoot more detail, okay, also the composition, I can do more detailed so it will instantly improve the result of your shoe. And then this mixture and also every practice, please make sure you also post in your Instagram account because it helps a lot. And then you can also track your recording from the first time your photo shoot until maybe about four weeks or eight weeks, you can see the difference between the last shot and a fresher. Okay. So it's all about the experience. So I think that's all. Okay. See you in our next course. Okay.