Smartphone Rustic Food Photography : An Easy Tutorial to Capture Rustic Food Photos with Your Phone!

1. Introduction: Okay guys, welcome in this course again. So this is a course where you learn to shoot using smartphone. And then we will explain to you step-by-step how we create a beautiful rustic style using your smartphone. Okay, So this is the picture we pay for this entire course. And you will learn exactly how we plan our background, how we plan our props, how we blend the color and some techniques to set our lifetime. How to create a beautiful lighting that is suitable for rustic style. And then step-by-step in the editing, okay, so you don't have to worry. And then for the smartphone, we don't use very specific smartphone or very expensive smartphone. We just use ordinary smartphones. So we can show you that standard smartphone also can produce a professional result if you follow this entire course and then maybe some of you have already used the smartphone debt, have so many lenses on your phone, but this time in this course we only use the standard lens. We don't use portrait lens. You didn't use any specific lens that maybe your phone doesn't have that feature. Okay, we just use the standard lenses in our phones so to make sure that you can also do it. Regardless, you use the Android phone. It again, this you use the iPhone as long as it's smartphone. Okay? Yes, this is the introduction. And then for the practice, I suggest to you to watch the entire course first. And then while you are practicing, I suggest to you to practice exactly the same scene that we set first. Okay? You practice here and you open the field due next to you. So you can copy every single technique that we use for the first frame to make sure that you follow the entire course and practice it. Okay? Yes. And then I will see you in the next. 2. Introduction of Smartphone Camera: Hey guys, I have a tapes for you. If you shoot using the smartphone camera in many smartphone camera and mostly they use wide angle lens in your smartphone. The wide-angle lens is very common in every smartphone, exists in this world because it is very easy to use light angle in the smartphone. So if you want to shoot anything, then you can cover all your views here, okay? But the limitation and white lands in your smartphone. It has the dispersion. I will explain to you. You don't have to worry if you're not familiar with the word distortion because I will exactly show you that difference. Okay, so I have my assistant here and the first picture, I'll stand here and then I'll take a picture from here, okay, using the normal lens in your smartphone, the normal wide angle lens. Okay. I will take one picture here. K. Yes. As you can see in this result, the limitation of what angle lens is, they're stretching area in the side of the picture. As you can see in this area, you can see that the picture is stretched to the age and also the other side is also dredged to the edge of our picture. So this is the limitation of the wide angle lens because this distortion make the picture loops and proportional. So in the next picture, I will explain to you how I solve this kind of problem. We still use the same camera. We don't change it to another lens because I think that not every single smartphone, half the portrait bands. So I just assumed that we all have funded camera in our phone. Okay, so with the same angle, with the same lens, but this time I suggest you to zoom in 1.5 until two times, okay, for this picture, I used two times in the Zoom settings and then I will take the picture here. Oh, okay. Yes. As you can see, there is no stretching area, so the picture looks more proportional and I'll show you the difference here. You can see side-by-side here in the left side. Yeah, this is the picture of wide angle lens without any Zoom In. And the right side here is the picture we're zooming in. You can see the difference in the side area of the beach. In our case, this is the little secret that will increase the quality of the picture you take using your smartphone. 3. Project 1 : Choose the right props & Compose It!: Okay guys, Welcome to this section, and this is our first voltage is tension. So before I explain to you, then I will show you this is the result of the picture we will take. Okay. And then I'll show you the preparation. Actually, if you do the proper preparation, then for the photoshoot section will be much faster. Okay, so I'll show you the thought behind how we choose this kind of prompts. How we choose these kinds of settings, how we choose this kind of arrangement. So in this accident, I will show you the reason behind choosing the prompts and background. Okay, we're going to shoot the rustic style. And then because we really should the darker rustic style, then this time I choose the wooden background here. Okay, I will explain to you about how we get this kind of would. Initially, this is just the ordinary world with no texture. And we create the texture by ourselves. So we use the nails to create the texture in the woods. So if you take photo using this one, you can see the texture of the wood K and then another KPI is in most cases, when I'm searching for the word out there, if I wanted to use that word for the photoshoot, usually the problem is I find a beautiful wood, but the color is not the same each other. Okay. There's the darker kind of wood that is brighter kind of wood. And when I arrange it together, the toddler is not the same. So how to deal with that? The trick is, I find the longer word is like three meters, four meters, and cut them. Short-lived version. So if I arrange it like this, then the color is still the same because it come from one. Okay? And then another trick for the prompts, selection and ingredients selection. Okay, So this is our main subject here, okay? This beverage, it is made from the coconut, so I use the coconut here. This is pretty big. It is very tricky to use the big items if you want to use the item like this in the surrounding of your settings. But one trick for you is you have to remember that you always have a choice to change the shape of this one, okay? This coconut, you can just put it like this, then take the photo shoot. And you can also have choice to break this down into small pieces like this. So this is the first texture and you can change the shape into large pieces like this and changed to the smaller pieces like this. So you get three texture from the same object. Okay? When doing a photo shoot is not that you have to like buy a lot of ingredients, but even if you have just some kind of ingredients, you still have choice to make it beautiful when you change the texture of the object, okay, with using one object here, I create the smaller pieces like this and larger pieces like this. And some of them, I place it in the word container like this. So just one object. I can arrange it into many kind of form. Okay? So we place it like this. And some of them, I place it in front like this. And then another ingredient we use is the cinnamon, okay? This is another trick. If you don't have enough cinnamon, you can always put pepper hour here inside the glass so it will pop up like this, okay, so you don't have to use so many ingredients here. And then another ingredient is ginger. You have to aware about the color of the object you put in your background. I mean, in the surrounding. Okay, so let's say that the main area of the photo shoot, the main subject is here, okay? And then we want to set the surrounding, okay? It is very important to pay attention about the color you put here. Okay? I suggest you to put the object have same tone color with your background again. So that's why I use the wooden container like this because the color is quite in the same with the background. So if you put it here, then people still can see clearly the main object here. And then people still can enjoy the surrounding because the surrounding just give another texture, but it doesn't distract the viewer's eye. So when they see the picture, they automatically direct to the main subject here and still can notice the story because you put the object here, but since have the same color with the background, so it doesn't distract the viewer's eye. Okay, same as this. I use ginger is here because it also have the same tone color with our background and also the cinnamon. Okay? So it gives texture, but it doesn't add any color that can distract. Okay, and then for another props here as the glassware like this. So I suggest you to have the glass like this because it is very easy to use in any kind of background because it will blend to your, wouldn't be grown like this. It will blend to the bright background and many kind of bare ground, okay. So in this scene, I put the ginger inside the glass here. If I make the different texture with the ginger that I put in the background here. Okay, so pay attention. This is very simple, but you have to aware that if you have the same ginger, but it will not be the same if you put one ginger on the background and you put the ginger in here, okay. In our mind when the fever see your picture, it is not the same. Okay. So I suggest you, if you don't have many ingredients, I suggest you put the ingredient in many forms. Okay. You can put the ingredients on the top of the background. You can put the ingredients on the jar. He liked this. And you can also check the ingredients in smaller pieces and put in another place. Okay, so please do that because it will give the texture. So your picture will have the rich texture and feel it focus in our main subject here. And then I'll show you one technique. It's called layering, okay? Because sometimes when you shoot, the color of the beverage is slightly like orange. It is not white but like there's yellow and orange color inside. So if you put this beverage on the background and the color tone is still the same, even if it is brighter and the background darker, but the car, It's still the same to make your subject pop out, I suggest to you to use the layering technique, which is, I put the white plate here to separate the colors. So if I put the white plate here, it's separate the color. It will make our main subject here more pop out. So this is the layering technique. Layering means brown, white, brown, okay, so we put white layer to separate the brown. Okay, this is the layering technique. And then another one I'll explain to you about the close. Okay, So for this kind of settings, I suggest to you, if you don't have the brown cloth to make the color The same with the background. I suggest to you to still use the dark clothes because if you use the bright one, it will drag the fever attention. Okay, I have another tip for you, usually layering technique like this. I only focused the layering below our main subject. You can also put the layering on the background, but I prioritize the layering on the main subject first, because if you use the layering technique, but you use the layering technique on the back area like this. Yeah, and you put the subject here. You can see that the people's attention can be here. Okay? So please be careful. So I prioritize to use the layering technique here on our main subject first, okay, if you want to explore, you can put another one here. But I suggest to you to prioritize this 1 first, because this is the main actor here. So you want to give the spotlight here first? Yeah. Okay, Here's the strategy and the thought behind how we choose our props here. And then in the next section, I will explain to you about the lighting technique we use to shut this one. 4. Project 1 : Lighting Setting: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. In this section, we will explain to you about the secret, how we set our lighting here and how we set our talent here, okay, so we set our lighting in the left side of our main product here. And then I'll explain to you the distance between our main subject to the lighting. The distance between our main subject to the lighting here is about 1.1 meter. Then the hate difference between our background should alike thing here is about 50 centimeters. And then why we use the site lighting for this thin, because it is very easy to define if you want to maximize the texture of your object. If you have the tall object like this, the face of your objectives in the front, like this, then the sidelight thing is the best because I really wanted to show the gradation between the highlights and the shadows. So the position here is our assistant will hold the glass like this. And then if we are using the site lighting here, only one thing, there will be nice highlight in the left side of the glass and there will be a nice shadow and the right side of our glands. And this is the texture we want to have in our picture. And then the body of our talent here is facing the lighting so we get nice texture in this area also. Okay, guys, maybe someone can ask if I zoom in 1.5 times until two times using my smartphone camera, then we'll reduce the quality of the image. I know that some people asked about this because the zoom feature in our smartphone is a digital zoom, okay? Not mechanical Zoom like photography lenses. Photography lenses using mechanical Zoom, so it doesn't reduce the pixel of the image. But if you are using the smartphone camera, then you zoom in, then actually it lower the quality. Yes, but you don't have to worry because we have another secret in the editing section. So even if you get lower quality of the image, you can increase the quality using the editing. And if you do it right, okay, only a few people cannot taste that in this picture is taken using smartphone, okay? Because you will increase the quality, you will reduce the noise and the quality of the picture will be great. Okay, So that secret, we will refill in the editing section so you don't have to worry. Okay, I'll see you in the next section. 5. Project 1 : Photoshoot & Photo Preview: Hey guys, We have just taken the picture, just know. And then I will show you the raw picture. So here you go. Then if you want to know, I didn't finish and then I will just show you the comparison between before and after the editing. So you know the goals of this picture. Okay, so here we go. The comparison between before and after the editing. Okay, and then if you want to know the secret, how to make a beautiful rustic picture editing style. Then the next section, we will show you the secret and step-by-step how we increase the quality of the picture, how we set the right color tone for the rest take picture. Okay, so I'll see you in the next section, in the editing section. 6. Project 1: Edit Your Scene with Lightroom!: Okay, hello, guys. Well, now we've entered to the editing section, guys. Well, here, we are going to edit the photos that we've taken to make it better, guys. Well, now, I'm here using an application called Addo B Light Room Guys. So, guys, we can just edit it directly from your phone. Well, now here, I've entered the initial display when your photos have been imported into dBightoomGuys. Well, this is a photo that we haven't edited at all. Well, now, I'm going to just go straight to the first stage, guys. That is, we have to crop the photos first guys here, our crop. Well, when it's in accordance with the crop results that I want, I can immediately click the checklist in the sign below guys. Well, then the photo will be cropped. Well, the crop function is actually to trim areas that we don't want guys. Earlier, I didn't want an area that was too big in the section guys in the coconut area, guys. Well, now we'll move to another menu, the first menu, guys. Well, here, there is such a thing as the light menu. Well, in the light menu guys, we can directly adjust the lighting level of your images. Well, there is something called the exposure here, guys. Well, what is the exposure. The exposure is the overall light level of your photo. Well, here's an example. If I increase the exposure, then all the images in this photo area will be bright. If I darken it, then the entire area of our photo will be dark. Well, because of that, I'll brighten it here. But just a little guys, turn over to it. Here I'll increase it to 0.50. Well, now if we set the exposure, we can immediately next to the one called the contrast, guys. Well, for this picture, I didn't really set the contrast, but for the contrast is the same as the exposure. It will increase the overall contrast in our image. For example, if I increase it here, then all areas in our image will increase the contrast. If I lower it, then the contrast of the pictures as a whole will decrease. Therefore, I don't set the contrast. Here I'll keep it at zero for the contrast. Well, for the highlights themselves, guys, here, I'll reduce the highlights. What is the highlight? The highlights are the reflection of light from our lighting that hits our object. For example, here is a highlight on the glass, which is white. Well, this is part of the highlight itself, guys. Well, in this photo, I'll reduce the highlight to -70 guys. Well, the highlights of the picture will be reduced. Well, why is it so dark like this? Well, let's continue. If the highlight is lowered, then it will indeed be dark. Therefore, here, I'll increase the light by increasing the shadows, guys. Well, what is the shadows? Shadows are the shadows from your photos. If I increase the shadows, then the shadows will become lighter. If I reduce it, the shadows from your photos will be. Therefore, here, I'll add the shadows up to plus 50 guys. Well, we'll enter the part called the whites. Well, the whites will also brighten your image guys. Well, but the whites will only enhance the white objects. An example is this plate glass and also some coconuts guys. It's white. If I increase the whites, then the white object will increase its illumination. Well, here, I'll increase the whites up to 70, guys. Okay, let's move on to the blacks, guys. Well, the blacks are the same as the whites. But the blacks only set the black level of our object. For example, when I increase the blacks, black objects like this background will become brighter. But here because I want to darken the black color here, I'm going to reduce the blacks to around 20 guys, 20, almost two 30. Why? Because I want the color of our black background becomes darker, guys. Well, that's for the exposure settings, guys. Here we'll go to the color menu. Well, for dot room itself, the menus are at the bottom, guys, guys, you can just light around. There are lots of menu here. Well, here, guys, you can immediately search for the color menu. Well, usually it's right next to the light menu. Well here for the color menu, there is something called the temperature. What's the temperature? That temperature is the white balance of your photos, guys. For example, if I add it here, the photo will increase in warmth. If I read it, then the temperature of your images will be colder or bluer. Here, for the temperature, I don't set it guys. But what I set here is the tin. Why do I set the tin because I see here there are some purple objects, guys. Well, I'll reduce the tin to -30 guys. Well, there's also the fibrins and the saturation here. But I didn't adjust them at all. Here I'll go to the menu called color mix guys. Well, above this, on the side of the grading menu, there is something called color mix. Well, here, just press it, then several colors will come out, guys. Well, here, I'll set the red color, I'll add the hue up to plus 100. As for the saturation, reduce it to minus eight, almost two -90. Well, for the aluminNs here, I'll reduce it to -55 for this image, guys. Well, let's move on to the next color, which is orange guys. You can slide it right away. Well, here, I'll add the hue to plus five. Then for the saturation, here, I'll reduce it two -26. Well, for the luminans I don't set it for the orange color here, guys. We continue to the yellow part. Well, in this yellow color, I just added the hue to around plus nine two plus ten guys. Okay, let's move on to the next color, which is green. Well, here because there is no green at all. Here I don't set the green color. There is also turquoise color here. In the turquoise color, I don't set either because the image doesn't have turquoise color. Well, here is the blue one. Well, in the blue color, I'll reduce the saturation, guys. Let's move on to the next color, which is purple. For the purple color here, I'll reduce the saturation to -100. Why? Because in some areas of our photos here, there are purple ones. I'll reduce the saturation to make the purple color disappear. Well, let's move on to pin guys. Well, in the pin, it's the same as the purple. I'll reduce the saturation. We can immediately click done here, guys. Well, if we've set the color menu, we can go directly to the section called the effx menu. Usually, it is located on the right side of the color menu, guys. Well, in the effx menu, there are the texture, the clarity, and the dehaze. However, if I set in the effect menu, then what will change is all parts of your photos, guys. Well, that's why I'm here only setting the finne to -38 guys. Well, because the finet will adjust the edges of your image to be darker. Well, the goal is to change the mood of the picture guys. Here there is such a thing as the midpoint. Well, here, we'll change the midpoint of the igne to zero guys so that it becomes darker and also the finte will spread as a whole. Well, for the roundness, here, I'll add plus 90. Then for the feather here I'll add up to 100. Well, if the effect menu is finished, we can immediately move to the details menu. It's also usually next to the effect menu. Well, in the details menu, there is something called sharpening. The sharpening is the sharpness of your images. If you change the sharpening to the right, it will add sharpness to your image. Well, here, I'll add around 130 guys for sharpening in this image because your image will be sharper. Usually, certain images will cause cracks, guys. Well, here, I'll counter it with what is called the masking guys. Here, I'll change the masking to 100 and I'll also counter it with the noise reduction guys. The noise reduction here will reduce the noise from your image. Here I'll add up 2505. Okay, guys, that's all for the details menu, guys. Well, just by setting four menu from Adoroom your photos are actually ready guys. This is the B four And this is the after guys. The photos are getting better, getting sharper and also the photo looks like it was taken by an expensive camera guys. Even though this photo was only taken with a smartphone. This is the before and also the after guys. However, here, I'll add additional tips for you guys. Here in Adoroom there is such a thing as the healing menu. While the healing brush tools menu will select your images so that the images become smooter. Well, here, I'll heal or brush the spots, guys, because it bothers me a little guys. Well, if you're done, guys, you can click the checklist right away. The image of the background, it's a little bit better. Okay, guys. Well, here now, I'll enter the menu called the masking menu. Well, what is the masking menu? The masking menu is a menu where you can directly select certain parts of your images. For example, I want to select this section guys. You can just select this part in the masking section and adjust it without changing your settings in other images. For example, guys, here, I'll immediately click at here. I'll choose the brush guys. Here I'll brush the gardens, which is cinnamon guys. You can also delete it. There is an eraser here. If you've already selected the part you don't want to select, you can delete them right away according to your wishes. Well, if you're done here, I'll arrange for the light part, guys. Here I'll add the whites to this gardening section so that this gardening section looks brighter. I'll add the whites to the 90s guys. After that, I'm here to change the color section guys. I'm going to move to the color section and I'm going to reduce the saturation guys to -19. Okay, guys. Well, if you're done, this is the results that we've selected guys. Well, now here, I'll select on the left guys. I'm going to duplicate it here. Then here I'm going to add a brush to the left guys. Well, if it's selected here, I'll change the saturation to -20 guys. Well, this is the result, guys, after we've selected the object. You can see the only thing that has an effect is the object that we select in the masking section guys. After that, here, I'll select all parts except for the background. Like this, guys. I'll add the brush, then I'll brush all parts of our object except for the background. Like this guys. Here I'll change the fx menu guys in the fx menu guys, I'll add the texture without adding the texture from our background by adding the texture up to plus 30. Well, here I add another brush. Then here I'll add the brush section in our foot stylish clothes. Then here I'm going to reduce the texture guys because if you take a look, the texture on this costume is a bit too much. I'll reduce it to minus 70s. Well, here, I'll add another brush. I'll select all parts of the costume guys. Then here I'll add the texture guys up to plus 100. I duplicate it. Well here I'll change the texture to zero. Then I'll move to the details menu. In the detailed menu, I'll add the sharpness to our food stylist costume. If it's done, I'm here to add another brush selection to this part of the glass guys. I'll select the glasses. Well, if it's like this, you can go straight to the effect menu, then you can just add the texture right away. Well, here, I've added the texture. Then I'll go to the details menu. Then I'll add the sharpness up to plus 100. Well, guys, here, I'll return to the selection where all the garnses are selected. Well, here, I'll duplicate guys. Well here because I changed the saturation, here, I'll return it to zero again. Well, in the duplication section of our garnish selection, I'll adjust the lights, guys. Then I'll reduce the shadows, so the garnishes will look darker. Then here, I'll increase the whites so that the brightness is like normal brightness, guys. So it's not too over guys for the shadows. Well, the result is like this guys. Okay, guys, if you're done here, I'll duplicate it in the selection section of the glass. I'll duplicate it. Then because we've already set the effect and also the sharpness, here, I'll reduce it two zero. Back to the beginning. That's it. Well, on the selection layer, I'll change the lights menu on the glass guys. I'm here reducing the shadows two -47, and also the whites, I'll add guys two plus 30. Well here, guys. I'll also reduce the saturation just a little guys. Because here if you look at this object, it looks a bit too over. I'll reduce the saturation a little at 14. Well, here it is, guys. Our image has finished, guys. This is the before and this is the after guys. Guys, you can directly export your image by clicking the share icon above, then selecting port to Camira Role. Well, you can wait first. Well, if there is a notification like this, your photo is already saved in your gallery. Well, that's all for the editing section, guys. We'll meet at the next meal guys. Thank you. 7. Project 2 : Choose the right props & Compose It!: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And in this section, I will explain to you the preparation for this scene. And maybe while doing the photoshoot, you always have limitation. Like I have limited fraud. I have lemon ingredients. I have only simple foot here, only pizza with minimum pumping. How to create this in beautiful, okay, The first I will explain to you about the props we use here. We decide to use smaller, perhaps like this, smaller than our main object here to make sure that it is not too obvious. The purpose of this perhaps just add some texture but not dominating our main subject here. And then I use this small battle with olive oil inside to add more story here. Okay, I have only one ingredients here. Please put it in different position to make sure that the pitcher not too boring. Okay, you can decide just put all the tomato on the top of the background and short like this. But I suggest to you to give more variation. You can put some tomato on the top of the background and then put another tomato on the top of this container to give the field that it's different, okay, like this. And then our explain to you about the leveling technique. While you want to shoot a pizza, maybe you can just put the pizza here and then shoot. Okay, but there is a way to improve this picture by using the leveling technique. What is the leveling technique? Yes, leveling is the number of items below our main subject. Okay? So our main subject is a bizarre here. If we only put the pizza here, then we only use one level, okay, So only one level on the top of our background. But how to increase the leveling? We've put the chopping board here and then you put below the pizza. Ok, so we have 12 level, this is level one, the chopping board, and level two is the exam. Okay, So we have two levels here. How to add another level? Because I suggest to you that you have minimum for Adele five levels in your picture so to make it more dramatic, okay, So the third level, we put our garnished here. Okay. And this is the third level and a forklift is later, I will ask my assistant to pose like this as if Q1 to style this pizza, Okay, this is the fourth level, okay? So the first level is the chopping board. The second level is the pizza itself. The third level is the basil leaf on the top of the pizza, and the fourth level is the basil leaf on the top of the pizza. Ok, so this is how we use the leveling technique. Actually, you can also use an editor tools like maybe nine or maybe spoon or four on the top of years. So to increase the leveling or event, you can use the close here yeah, To App Model leveling. Okay, but for the leveling technique, I suggest to you to focus on the main subject first so you apply the leveling technique on the main subject first. And then if you want to apply the leveling on the surrounding, it is later after you apply on the main subject. Okay. The next one is, I will explain to you about the background here, okay? And this is just the ordinary route planning. And then if you want, you have the dark background. Actually this is, we paint it by ourselves. It is very easy. You just get ordinary wood plank and then paint it with the wooden pain with the duff one, actually, there is two kinds of pain. There is glossy one and the one are the duff one. Okay. So I suggest to you to go with the map one, and this is dark gray. If you want to decide to paint your beggar, I suggest to you to go with the gray one, not the black one. Okay. Because if you have the gray one, you can use the lighting technique to make it gray or make it black. But if you only painted using the black one, it is very difficult to brighten it up, okay. You have to use many lighting to shoot this kind of background to make it gray. Okay. So I suggest to you if you want to have the rusty and also dark, I suggest to you to paint it into a gray instead of black. Okay. So I'll see you in the next section. 8. Project 2 : Lighting Setting: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. In this section, I will explain to you about our lighting technique for this frame, I have a simple tricks for you. Actually, our main subject here is beautiful pizza over here. And if you want to decide lighting direction, I suggest to you to identify your subject first. The pizza here, we can see that the texture of the pizza is on the top of our pizza here, okay, It's on the top. So the best likely position for the food half top area as its main texture is the backlight. Backlight position is here when I shoot over a year. So delighting is on the back of our foot. Okay. The face of our main subject is on the front of our subject, okay? Like different, like this. The face of our subject here is on the front, so the best position for this item is on the sidelight because we will get beautiful highlight and shadow on the front of our object. Okay, So this item, sidelight and the item that have the main tension on the top, you can use backlight, okay, there is my simple tricks to get the most beautiful texture by recognizing our subject. And then the distance between our food here should alike thing is about 1.3 metre. And then the hate difference between our background should the lighting here is about 70 centimeter, okay? And then in the likely position here, you have to pay attention about the lighting position here. I made sure that I tilt down the lighting. The lighting here, we'll come through our product here and bounced to our camera. This position will get the most texture of our pizza here, okay? And then to increase the texture, I decide to open the cloth here on our softbox to increase the texture of the pizza. Okay, yes, this is the lighting position here in this setting. And then let's move to the next section. 9. Project 2 : Photoshoot & Photo Preview: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. Just now we have done the photo shoot and then I will show you the result. Okay? So this is the result of the row picture. And then this is the comparison between before and after the editing. Okay, Then let's walk cuz I didn't picture. And let's zoom in, in the pizza. Ok, so as you can see that there's beautiful texture in the pizza. This is because we used the backlighting technique for this kind of food. It will increase the texture. You can see the beautiful texture. You can see the beautiful highlight on the pizza. It is because we use the backlight thing. Even if you use like very expensive camera, you use very expensive lighting. But if you don't use the backlight technique, you use the sidelines, they are frontline thing. You cannot get the beautiful texture like this. So this is very important to pay attention with the lighting direction, okay? Yes. And then if you are interested to know how we edit this picture into the beautiful rustic style editing again. So the next section is yours. I'll explain to you in detail about side-by-side we edited. Okay, so I'll see you in the next section. 10. Project 2: Edit Your Scene with Lightroom!: Okay. Hello, guys. We've entered the second dish, guys, which is pizza guys. Well, here, the pizza is full of texture guys, so I'm going to change this image to be even more textured. Also to be sharper by using Ad Bit room guys. You can also directly download doblatRom on the play store or app store guys. Not an endorsement, but we do use the application. Well, are you curious, guys? Let's just follow the step by step, guys. Okay. First of all, we'll enter the light menu guys, the lighting menu guys. Here, guys are reduce the exposure to minus 30s. For the contrast, here I'll stay at zero guys, and also the highlights here, I'll reduce it two -100. Then at the bottom of the highlights here, there are the shadows. The shadows here, I'll add up two plus 100. The whites, here, I'll add guys up to plus 70. Then for the blacks, here I don't add it at all. Why? Because the background here is still a little guys, so we don't need to blacken it. Well, here at the top of the lighting menu, here is something called curve guys. Well, in the curve, we can just press it. Here you can immediately change the shape of the curve to what you want. At the bottom is the shadows, guys. If you change the bottom, then you'll change the shadows. Well, here, I'll improve a little for the shadows section by clicking on trees tags like this guys. One, two, and three. Well, if it's done guys, you can immediately change the bottom part or just a little shadow up. Well, for the mid tone section, here, I'll add a bit guys to be like this guys. Then at the top, there is a section, the highlight guys. Well, here, I'll reduce just a little bit. Well, what will change is the highlights. If it's done guys, you can immediately click done. Okay, the lighting menu is finished. Let's go straight to the color menu. In this menu, I'll reduce the temperature to make it cooler, guys. Then for tin, here, I'll also reduce it to get rid of the purplish colors. If the temperature and the tint have been changed, we'll immediately enter the mixed menu guys. Okay, guys, here in the color mixed menu in the red part, here I'm going to reduce the saturation guys to -20. Then for the lemons here I'll reduce it to minus two. Then here I'll move to orange color. Here in orange, I'll increase the hue up to plus seven. Then I'm going to reduce the saturation down to -20. Then for the luminan I'll keep it at zero. Then in the next color here on the yellow part, I'll reduce the saturation guys to -24. Okay, let's move on to the green. In the green color, the hue, I'm going to reduce it to -20. The saturation here, I'll also reduce it to minus. It's almost close to minus ten guys minus nine. Then for the min here, I'll add up two plus 16. Then here we go to the turquoise color. Here, for the turquoise color, I don't set at all. However, I'll reduce the blue color for the saturation to -100. Then for the purple color here, I'll also reduce the saturation to -100. Then for the pink color here, I'll also reduce the saturation to -100. Okay, guys, the color mixed menu section is finished. We can go straight to the effax menu, guys. In the effax menu, I'll reduce the fine to the 30s, guys. Then for the mid point here, I'll reduce it to zero guys so that the hint spreads throughout the image guys. Then the roundness, here, I'll add almost to 100. Then for the feather here I'll add up to 100. Well, that's it for the fax menu guys. Now we'll proceed to the details menu. In the details menu, I'll add sharpening up to 130 guys. For the masking, here, I'll add it to 100. Then for the noise reduction here, I'll add it to the 30s For the color noise reduction, here, I'll add up to 100 guys in the details menu. Yes, guys. If we've edited the four menu here, I'll go to the menu called the Optics menu guys. Well, in the Objects menu, I'll only change remove chromatic aberration guys. I'll click the checklist guys. Well, like that. Okay, guys. If you have set five menu from dot room guys. Then you've got a better image than the raw image guys. This is the before, and also, this is the after. You can see the picture is getting sharper and it's also getting better guys. Actually, if you have set the five menu earlier, you can just export it right away because the pictures have gotten better. And it's also better guys. However, here, I'll add some tips. I'll use a menu called the masking menu guys. Well, you can get the masking menu if you upgrade Adoroom But guys, don't bother because if you have set up the five section of this menu, actually, your images can be directly exploded and it's already finished, guys. However, here, I'll add another menu to fix this image with the masking menu guys. Well, here, I'll just click on the masking menu, then I'll add it. Well here, I'll add a linear gradient first. Well, in the linear gradient, I'll make a selection at the bottom guys at the bottom of the pizza table. Here I'll change the lighting menu guys in the exposure menu. I'll reduce it two minus left a line guys. So that the image from the bottom of the stable is darker. Also the highlight here, I'll also reduce it guys up to -100 so that the image from the bottom of the stable, it's getting very dark guys. Well, you can see it becomes shaded and it also becomes pitch black guys. Well, that is gold to select at the bottom of the table for the pizza guys to set the lighting part. Then here I'll add more with the brush tool guys. Here I'll brush on the garnish part of the small tomatoes guys. These cherry tomatoes here, I'll select, and here, I'll set it in the lighting menu guys. I'll reduce the highlight down to -100. Then for the shadows, here, I'll add up to plus 50 guys. Okay. Once it's finished, we can immediately click the checklist. Then here I'm going to brush again on the garnish part, which is this little leaf guys that our food stylist is holding. We can also delete the part that we don't want to select guys. Well, we've made a selection on the green leaf, which is being held. Then here I'll reduce the highlight part in the lighting me guys, two -100. So that on the leave part, there is no highlight, guys. Okay. Let's move on. Here, guys, I'll add the brush tool to the pizza as a whole guys. I'll first select using the brush tool here, the whole pizza guys. You can also remove your selections using the eraser here. If you've made selections in the pizza in the section, I'll add the f menu guys, the texture guys. I'll add plus 20. Okay. Then on the details menu, I'll also set the sharpness guys at plus 60 s. Okay, we can just click the checklist. Well, here, I'll also select the garnish as a whole. On the cherry tomatoes, guys. I'll change the color menu guys. I'm going to reduce the saturation because the red color of the cherry tomatoes is quite disturbing guys. I'll reduce it to -18. Okay, then here, guys. I'll copy the selection on the pizza section by duplicating guys. Click on the selection. Click on the layer, then you can select duplicate. Well, because earlier we have set the effects, we lower it first so that it resets. Then here, what I'll set is the highlight in the lighting menu. Well, here, I'll reduce the highlights two minus third ts. Okay. Then I'll click the tick, click the checklist, then I'll add another brush tool here in the pizza section, guys. Well, in the pizza, there is lighting or a slightly bluish highlight. Therefore, here, I'll select it. Okay. Okay, guys. If it's done, here, I'll go to the lighting menu first. In the lighting menu, I'll add the shadows up to the 80s, guys. Okay. Then here I'm going to the color menu. Then I'm going to add the temperature up two plus ties. Why did I add it to change the temperature, which was a little cold to a little warm. Okay, guys, that's the tips from the masking menu guys. This is the before, and this is the after guys. Well, the image is getting better, right, guys, it's also gone at the bottom. The areas we don't want are good too. It's sharper on the pizza side, and this is the image we want guys. Well, if you follow the steps, you can just export it directly to this share icon. Then, guys, you can directly export to mira Role. Then guys, wait a minute. Okay, guys, that's the end of the editing section for this food. We'll meet again at the next meal, guys. Thank you. 11. Project 3 : Choose the right props & Compose It!: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And in this I said, I will explain the preparation quiz shoot the scene. In this section, I will introduce you the negative space. Okay? What is negative space? Okay? I will explain to you, but it's showing this picture. This is the picture that we produce in this section again. So this is the result and then symbol to say negative space for me is the empty area usually we provide in our pictures. So maybe some of you tend to feel that if I don't put anything in this area, this area seems empty or you feel that the picture is too empty and it's too boring. Maybe some of you can feel that way if there are so many negative space. But the main purpose of negative space or the empty area, is to make sure that the fewer of your picture, the one that consume your picture, can easily notice the main part of your picture. Okay? The main part of our picture is the scene that my assistant whole red here. And this is the main thing. We want to make sure that even anyone that see the picture only two or three seconds, they know the main message of this picture. They know the main feeling we want to show in this picture, okay? So negative space is very important. And this time the negative space or we provide is in the background here, in the dark area. And also the usage of negative space is to make sure that anyone that use your picture, they can also put any writings or copyrighting in your picture, okay, So if you provide so many negative space, it is easier for anyone to use your picture for publication usage, okay? If anyone wants to pose as Instagram story, anyone can easily put any copywriting and they don't have to think hard where to put the copywriting, okay, So it is very easy to use then in this scene, this is the main message that we want to highlight. So the breadth and its ingredients, it is very simple actually, we only have one dark cloth here. I want you to make sure that I use dark color because I don't want the cloth becomes timeout. And I mentioned the globe doesn't distract our main subject, but it adds beautiful texture in our image. And then we have bottle of oil here. I wouldn't like this and wooden spoon here. Maybe some of you feel that there is no purpose to put wooden background using wooden container like this is in wooden spoon like this. It doesn't stand out. Yes, because the only purpose we want from this one is it adds any texture and story, but the color matching the background, so it adds the story, but it doesn't distract anyone from seeing the main subject here. Okay, so we want to make sure that it doesn't distract. And then about the eighth, okay? Even if you only have a as your crops in your scene, instead of like put your eight here, Okay? Well, it like this, you always have a creative choice to change the position of the egg and change the form of the egg. Okay, So is it like putting like this that makes the picture looks boring? We put it here on the basket and then we change the form of the egg to change the texture even if it's the same object. But in food photography, if you change form, it is two different story, Okay? This is the fresh a and if you put this one, the story is different. The story is someone is making a breadth. So it is not only the ingredients, but if you put a satellite here, the story changed. Okay, so I suggest to you to change the form of the ingredients if you have limited ingredients. So just change the form. Just put it on the basket. Some of them like this. You can put it on the background. And then you can also use the small shell like this on your background. So it is also the different texture that you can use, Okay? Yeah, like this. And we also use the small chopping board like this. I really suggest to you, if you want to use chopping board, you are selling your food and you are not selling your prompts. Because of that, I suggest to you to use small chopping board like this. Because small chopping board make your food more pop out like this. So it's full of your hood. And I don't like really large chopping board because if it's too large first, it will make your food look smaller. And then the second one, if the chopping board is too large, then it seems like you are selling the chopping board inside of your foot. Okay. That's why I usually invest the small chopping board like this. My simple rule is I don't by chopping board more than 25 centimeters. Okay? Yes. I have throbbing but more than 25 centimeter, but that's just one or two pieces. But I have so many form of a chopping board that is under 25 centimeters. Oh, okay. That's how we prepare our scene and prepare our prompts. So I'll see you in the next section. In the next section, I will explain to you about how we set the lighting. Okay. I'll see you in the next cell. 12. Project 3 : Lighting Setting: Hey guys, in this section I will show you the technique that we use for our scene this time. Okay, so I already have my assistant here, so he hold the breath here. And the sliding position is called backlighting because we use the lighting position behind our subject here. Backlighting as very popular when you are doing the food photography, especially if you want to make your product or subject more pop out using backlighting, you can easily increase the texture of your image, okay, this time we use the lighting here. So sometimes when we use should we have the direct backlighting like this? Okay. Let's say if I shoot from here, okay. So the lighting is directly in front of me. Okay? This also called backlighting and can create very textural image. But sometimes the case is when you shoot with lightning position like this, subject is, looks good, but sometimes the background is over light, okay? Because the lighting to the background bouncing to your camera and then the background will be very bright if you find this kind of situation, I suggest to you keep using backlight, but the lightning come from the left corner with this kind of lighting version, you still can get textural like thing. Yeah, you can increase the texture in your subject here and the same time you can reduce the highlight in the background. Okay, so this lightning is also my favorite. And then next I will show you the lagging position here. This is our main area of photoshoot. So the distance between here to our lighting is about 1.3 metre. And then the distance between here from the subject here, should alike thing is about like mine piece anti-matter. Okay? The Hate different between our background to our lighting is about one meter. This is the lighting position here. And the advantage of the high angle like thing like this is you can cover most of the area, okay? Especially if you have many items here and you want to show the texture of every item here. So the backline thing with high angle, like being here, slight good for you, our k. So this is the explanation of the lighting position. And then I will see you in the next section. 13. Project 3 : Photoshoot & Photo Preview: Okay guys, we have just done our photo shoot and then I'll show you the result. But before I show you the result, maybe you feel that, okay, the Photoshop's session doesn't have to be dead pass. The lawsuit session doesn't have to be that easy as I do right now. Okay? Maybe some of you feel like that, especially if you are using smartphone, actually it is very easy to change your angle from portrait, landscape, or even flatly, because Yep, smartphone is very easy to use and the Photoshop's accent to be very long. Actually for me, when I shoot using smartphone, the photo session is very fast, but the one that takes time is the preparation before like deciding what kind of background to use, what kind of crops to use and to success practicing the scores. I suggest to you that you can really make all of the picture that I have shown you the behind the scene. Yeah. I challenge you to really make it so you don't have to plan anything, just remain with all the background and prompts that you have and then see the result. What is the difference between a professional photographer and the one that have just started to do the photoshoot. Actually, I don't know. Maybe you have friends as a professional photographer, but as long as I see many professional photographers before one scene like this, maybe they should like a 100 or picture and only use like three until five per cent of it. Like out of 100 picture maybe they only take like three until five favorite picture, okay, and they feel great. But for anyone who have just started photography while professional, take a 100 and feel happy for it, even if they only like five pictures. But for anyone who has just started and they take like three and picture and feel stressed about it and feel that they have no talent. I know that some of you maybe relate because I also on that stage before when I shoot and I take like three until fire picture and I feel that I'm not talented. Okay. So if you feel that way, I suggest to you that because you have to know one tips for you, be like a professional photographer. Feel free to take as many pictures as possible. And feel free just to take three and the five picture of it and be happy. Because the main process is when you move this a little and you take another picture, you move the ligand and take another picture. I feel that I don't like this one. I like this one. I don't like this picture. I like this picture. When I reviewed my own picture, I see many pictures as alternative. Okay. So there's no right or wrong picture, but I take many of them as alternative because there will be a probability that if you take like printed picture, you can see that maybe you have one until tree favorite picture. Okay, That is the way when I do the photoshoot to enjoy the process. Okay, so easily stressful when you just take tree and there's five Victor, feel free to explore, okay, and then I will show you the result of this piece. Hey, if you guys want to know about the process of the editing for this one to get red color, tone, and perfect sharpness to increase the quality of the image, then you have the opposite to the section after this one. Okay, I'll see you in the next section. 14. Project 3: Edit Your Scene with Lightroom!: Okay, guys. Now we've entered the third meal guys, the bread guys. Well, now I've entered the initial view in Adobe light room, guys. Well, this is the image we want to add it. The image is still too big. Here I'll just go straight to the crop menu. Then here I'm going to crop it on the right side on the bottom. Okay, guys. Okay. Okay, guys, if we've got the position we want, now we can just click the tick. When it's finished in the crop menu, we can go straight to the lighting menu. Here, for the exposure, I'll add 1.50, guys. For the contrast, here I don't set it for the highlight here, I'll reduce it to -90. Then for the shadows here, I'll darken guys. Here I'll reduce it to -70 for this image guys. For the whites, here, I'll add up to plus 70 guys. Okay. Okay. Then for the blacks here, I'll reduce it. I want this image to be darker, guys, so I'm going to reduce it to -16. Okay, guys. Once it's finished, we can immediately enter the curve menu. Lighting menu section. Well, here, I'll make three dots first, then I'll change the shadows, guys. Then for the mid tones here and also the highlights, I'll change. Okay. If it's done, we can immediately click done. Now the lighting menu is finished. Now we'll enter the color menu, guys. In the color menu, I'll reduce the temperature and the ten to -13. Okay. If it's done, we can immediately enter the color mix menu here. In the part here, I'll add the hue, the saturation will be reduced to -50. Then for the luminance, here, I'll also reduce it to -50 guys. Then in orange color, here, I'll just add a little hue at plus seven. For the saturation, here, I'll reduce it to -20 guys. For the luminance, I'll let it be zero. Then for the yellow color here, I'll add the hue at almost ten. Then I'll not adjust the saturation and the min guys. As for the green color here, I won't set it in advance. And also the turquoise color, guys, we go straight to the blue color. Here I'll reduce the saturation to -18. For the purple color, I'll reduce the saturation to -100. Then for the pink color, it's the same. I'll also reduce the saturation to -100. We can immediately click done. We'll move to the effect menu. In the effect menu, I'll go straight to the Vignette section guys. We go to Vignette, then I'm going to reduce the int down to -30. Then I'll make the mid 0.0. I'll add the rounds two plus 90s. I'll add the feather here to 100. Guys, if it's done, we can immediately move to the details menu. In the details menu, I'll add the sharpening up to plus 130. Then we're going to the masking. The masking here, I'll add to 78 guys. Then there is such a thing as noise reduction guys. Here I'll add round. Then I'll change the color noise reduction here to 100, write a line, guys. Okay, if the details menu is finished, we'll go to a menu called the Optics menu guys. Here, I just have to press the checklist on the removed chromatic vibration. Well, if you set these five menu, guys, you'll get good images actually. This is the before image, and this is the after image guys. Well, your pictures are getting better, sharper and also more cinematic guys. It doesn't look like that the photo is taken from a smartphone guys. Actually, you can just export this image right away. But if you've upgraded your Adbightroom, you can use the menu, the healing brush tool menu guys. Well, in the healing brush tools menu, we can patch objects that we don't really want, like the dots on this background. We'll remove them first, guys so that the image on this background becomes smooth guys. There are no distracting images in this background, guys. Okay, guys. If you finish removing some of the annoying dots, guys, you can just click the Tick guys. Then here I'll use a menu called the masking menu guys. It's located next to the healing brush tool menu. Here, I'm going to brush it first. We select the brush tool, then I'll brush on the clothes from our food stylist guys. Okay, guys. Here on the fx menu, I'm going to add the texture in the part I've selected two plus 100 guys. Okay. Here, I'll add another brush to the background guys. In the background guys, I'll brush. Then here I'm going to the fx menu. Then I'm going to change the texture to -100 guys. I'm going to make this background smooth, guys. Then for the clari T here, I'll also reduce it to -12. If you're done here, I can immediately click the checklist. Then guys I'll add a linear gradient. We drag here. This is a straight line where you can select directly with a straight line. I'll select at the bottom here. Then guys, we'll change it in the lighting menu. I'll change the highlight guys to -100. I'll click the Tick guys. Then here I'll also select again on the left using a linear gradient guys. Yes, it's done more or less in the section. I'm going to the lighting menu. I'll reduce the exposure first then guys. I'll also add a linear gradient in the top right corner, guys. Then here I'll change it in the lighting menu. I'll change the exposure to minus 20s to 30s. I'll check list it here, guys. Then I'll brush again using the brush tool. I'll select on the table, guys. Okay, guys. If you finish selecting, you can go directly to the color menu. I am here reducing the saturation guys to minus almost -40. Okay, I click the tick. While guys here, I'll also brush on the bread that is being brought by our food stylist. I'm going to the color menu. I'll change the saturation to minus eight. Then here I'll also brush on the clothes again, guys, right here, down here. Okay. If you're done here, I'll set it in the lighting section. Here I'll add the highlight guys. I'll also add the shadows. I'll also add the whites here, guys up to plus 17. For the blacks here, I'll reduce it to almost ten. Then guys here, I'm going to the effect menu. In the effect menu, I'll add the texture up to plus 100, so it's sharper guys. For the details menu, I'll reduce the noise here at -13. I'll add the sharpness again at plus 70. We can click the tick right away. I am here to brush up on the background again, guys. Then I'm going to the lighting menu. I'm going to reduce the highlight guys in this section to -100. Then here, guys, I'll select again at the bottom using just a little linear gradient. Don't get to the top too much. Then here, I'm going to the lighting menu. Then I'll change the exposure to -60. Then I'll set the contrast to zero. The highlight, I'll reduce it to almost 100 guys. Let's click the tick. Well, so that at the bottom, there is a gradation from dark to light. That's it, guys. Guys will select again, guys on the bread section, but on the right side of the bread. Okay, guys, if it's done here, I'll change it in the color menu. I'll reduce the temperature to minus six. Then I'll reduce the saturation to minus ten guys. Then I click the tick. Well, lastly, guys, I'll select all parts of our food. Here, guys, you can immediately delete the parts that you really don't want to select. Okay, guys. If it has been selected, here, I'll go to the details menu. Then I'll add the sharpness guys to plus four t. Okay, here, I'm going to click the tick. Okay, guys. If it's finished, then this is the image we create, guys. This is the B four, and this is the after guys after we edited. Well, the images are sharper, more conceptual and also more cinematic guys. Ordinary people wouldn't think that this photo was taken using a smartphone. Why? Because this picture looks like it was taken using a DSLR or other advanced camera guys. If you look at it, this is the B four, and this is the after. That's it, guys. If you follow the steps on this video tutorial guys, you can immediately click the share Congo above. Then, guys, you can click Export to Camera Roll. Okay, then your image have already saved in your gallery, guys? Well, that's all the editing tutorial on this food guys. We'll immediately move on to the next meal. Thank you. 15. Project 4 : Choose the right props & Compose It!: Welcome guys to this section. And in this section we will start to create another beautiful picture, drastic picture. Okay, so we have a beautiful route here. And then have you ever questioning about how to create a simple concept, but it looks beautiful. Okay. Have you ever see a beautiful and simple concept, but when you try to remaking it, it doesn't work. Okay. So and you still don't know why it happened. So maybe you have to ask one question. Do you apply the leveling technique? Why? The layering technique? Okay. So what is the leveling technique? Okay, I will explain to you the background is the first level. And in this picture we will set this beautiful tablecloth here, white one as the second layer. And third layer is this chopping board. And the fourth layer is our bold here. Okay, So make sure that there's enough level in your frame, specially in your main subject, do the left leg and your main subject first option. You can also do the left link in the background area, okay? But I suggest that you do it in the main object first. Then what is the layering technique? Okay, so the way I choose the prompts below our main subject is I create the layering. This is the brown background, Okay, I'll use the white tablecloth. The next one, I use the brown chopping board and white bowl. Okay, So the layer is brown, white, brown, white. It will also give the effect of complexity, but at the same time, it also complexity within the range of our food. And it will also help your viewer to focus on the main subject, but it doesn't look too simple. It adds texture, but it's still focus on the main subject. Okay? If you doesn't use the layering technique, you only apply the leveling technique. You only care about how many level, but you don't care what items you put below your main subject. Maybe we'll unlike this, okay, if you only care about the leveling technique, is this the same? It is the fourth level, but you don't apply the layering. So you can see if I don't apply it, maybe I'll just randomly use brown background, then brown chopping board. Why? Tablecloth and white ball. Okay, if I place it like this, it doesn't look too beautiful because it is really hard to recognize which one is tablecloth, which one is your bowl because it blends together. Okay. So this is not a good layering technique, in my opinion. Okay? The way you should do it is if you want to use the layering technique, use maybe like brown, white, brown, white. It also works if you want to use like black, white, black, white, and another color. Okay? Yeah, this is the layering technique. And then after using this layering technique and leveling technique in this area, in the other, I only use very simple prompts here. It is just the broth and then just some leaves. Okay? Yeah, this is very simple. This is how we create a simple thing but powerful one. So I will see you in the next section. Next exam is one of the important area because I will show you how we create a beautiful highlight in the egg yolk. So your picture looks more dramatic and it looks beautiful. I k. So I will see you in the next slide. 16. Project 4 : Lighting Setting: Okay guys, In this axial, I will explain to you about the lighting position born this book. Okay, So we have a very beautiful food here. And then before you start to decide which kind of lightning you want to use, which direction of the lighting you have to pay attention in the food you want to shoot. Okay, so in this, there is a beautiful area on the top of this photo, which is a y'all. And then I really wanted to highlight the egg yolk. So it looks beautiful. Have highlight. It looks round. So the way to create beautiful egg yolk, the perfect lighting position for me is the backlight, the perfect backlight. So I will shoot from here and then the lighting is straight in front of me, exactly behind our food is our lighting. So we are on the straight line here. So when the lighting keep our egg yolk and it bounds you are lighting. So it will create a beautiful three-dimensional effect. It will create beautiful highlight in our egg yolk. So I will show you the difference between the perfect backlighting and the one that we should without backlighting. Okay, so in the left side is the image that we should with backlighting. You can see the detail in the egg yolk is very beautiful. But in the right side, you can see that we showed with the sidelight thing and there's no highlight in our backyard. Okay. And then for example, I will simulate the lighting position. Okay, so you guys can understand what I mean. I will show you on the screen the difference. Just now I turn off the studio lighting so you can see exactly how my phone screen. Yeah. Okay. Here's the lighting position for the backlighting. I will take a picture here. Okay. Yeah. As you can see, if I zoom in into the picture, you can see it a beautiful highlight, our egg yolk and our spoon here. There's beautiful highlight actually in this spoon, you also have to create a texture so it doesn't look flat, okay? Because if there's no texture in the spoon, when you hit the backlighting like this, it will look very flat. And this is the backlighting. This is the result that I want. I want to create a beautiful highlight on the top of our egg yolk and on the spoon. And then I will show you if the position is not backlight, okay? If we move the camera here, okay, Then if I shoot from here, then the likely direction from me is on the left side, then you can see on my phone screen, okay, we lost the highlight of our egg yolk. We lost the highlight on our spoon. I think the picture just now, and you can see that there's no highlight on the egg yolk and there's no highlight on the spoon. Ok, so this is how we can create a beautiful with photography just only you understand the lighting direction to create a beautiful highlight on your food photography. No matter how expensive your camera on or whether how expensive your lighting and how expensive your computer to edit. Then if you lose this kind of settings in your lighting direction, then you lost all the texture in your beautiful food here. So yeah, this is how we can create beautiful highlight in our food photography. Okay, and then on the spoon here, okay, we also add the texture inside this so it doesn't look flat because if you only put the liquid on your spoon, then you don't put anything on the top of the spoon, then it will look very flat. Okay, so I will show you the difference between two picture. On the left side, you can see that there's no texture we're going to highlight, but with no texture, the spoon will look very flat because it's just ordinary liquid. But on the right side, you can see that we got a beautiful highlight and we add the texture on the top of the spool. You can see the texture beautiful. Oh, okay. Yeah. This is how we plan the lighting on our picture. Okay. So and then I will show you the lighting position here. If I shoot from here, then the distance between our food here to the lighting is about 1.2 meter, 120 centimeter. The distance between here to here, and then the Hague difference between the background should a light thing is about nineties and Demeter, I put the lightning exactly behind our foot here. So this is how we set our life thing. And I will see you in the next section. 17. Project 4 : Photoshoot & Photo Preview: Now we have done our photo shoot and then I will show you the result. Okay, so this is the rod comparison between before and okay guys, usually when you are doing a photo shoot, especially using smartphone, sometimes when you shoot, you still feel that the color is off. You don't like the color, you don't like the texture, you don't like the contrast. And the picture somehow looks not sharp or a little bit blurred. There's noise, okay. There are so many thing that you have to delay because when you shoot, you cannot increase the sharpness until you come to the editing part. Sometimes when you are doing the shooting, just be faithful. Believe that when the editing section, you can also increase the quality, okay? If you find that the picture quality is not really great, the color, the texture, you can fix it. In the editing section, we will explain to you the step-by-step how you do then I have a few more tips for you while you are doing the photoshoot using smartphone and backlight like this. Okay. So when you're shooting backlight like this, like gray to the lighting like this. Sometimes I cover my lines like this to make sure that the lighting doesn't directly hit my lens because it will make the lens flare so it will damage the color in your picture. Okay. So I covered a little bit just right to make sure that my hand doesn't show up in a picture, but it will make sure that the lighting doesn't hit directly to the length k. So this is my symbol. If you shoot using direct backlighting like this. Okay, so I will see you in the editing section. 18. Project 4: Edit Your Scene with Lightroom!: Okay. Hello, guys. Now we've entered the fourth foot guys. The foot is noodles, guys. Noodles with egg on top, guys, and also some mustard greens guys, the vegetables. Okay, guys, here, I'm going straight to the lighting menu. In the lighting menu, I'm going to reduce the exposure just a little bit, guys. Here I'll reduce it two -0.03. Then I'll leave the contrast here at zero. For the highlight, I'll reduce it to -100. Then here I'll also reduce the shadows to make it darker. And also the whites, I'll add to make it lighter on the white part at plus 70 guys. For the blacks here, I'll reduce it to -29 guys. Okay, let's continue to the curve menu in the lighting menu guys. Here I'll add three dots first. Then here I'll change the bottom, the shadows. Here I'll increase it. Then in the lighting section, I lowered it a little. In the highlight section, I lower it a little at the top. Then in the mid section here, I'll just increase it a little, so the result will be like this. Then we're going to click done. Okay, we'll continue to the effect menu. In the effect menu, I'll reduce the fine two -40. Then I'll reduce the mid point to zero. I'll add the roundness up to plus 90. The feather here, I'll add up to 100. Okay, then we'll move to the details menu. Well, in the details menu, guys, you can immediately add 139 for the sharpening. Okay, guys, for the masking, I'll add up to 100 here. Then here I'll add the noise reduction up to 34. Then for the color noise reduction here, I'll add up to 100. Okay, then here I'll move to the optics menu. Here I'll activate the removed chromatic aberration. Okay, guys, in the color mixes the hue in the red part, I'll add up two plus three. Then for the luminance here, I'll reduce it to minus nine. Then we move to the orange color. Here, for the hue, I'll add two plus seven, then I don't set the saturation and the luminance. Then for the yellow color, I'll reduce the hue here to minus three. I don't set the saturation and luminance. The green color here, I added the hue to plus 17. I don't adjust the saturation. I'll reduce the luminance here to minus seven. In the turquoise color, I don't control it at all. The blue color here, I reduce the saturation to -45. Then for the purple color, I reduce the saturation, left a line -100. Then for the pink color, here I reduce the saturation to -100. Well, guys, if you have set the optics in the optics menu, then your image is finished, guys. This is the before image, and this is the after image. The color is getting sharper. The texture is getting better too. The color of the egg yolk is also getting better. Well, this is the image we want, guys. Well, if you're done, guys, you can immediately click the share icon logo above. Then guys click Export to camera Role. Well, your photo can be directly saved in your gallery, guys. Okay. Okay, guys, that's all for the editing tutorial in the fourth dish, guys. We'll immediately move on to the next meal, guys. Thank you. 19. Project 5 : Choose the Right Props & Compose It!: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. I'm so excited with this section because we have so many items here, actually, so many numbers of item, because if you count the time of the item, it's not that many. But yeah, I'm so excited to set all of this because we will create a beautiful picture. Okay? So our goal is we want to create like this one. Okay, As you can see in the picture, then it is taken we using the smartphone and I will show you exactly how we sat many things like this into a beautiful frame. Okay? So the first principle is, for example, we have apple here, okay? So you have to decide to change the form of this apple, also change the placement of this apple, okay, So in this apple, we cut it off like this to create more variation. And then we also put the apple in different location, different location. I mean, we put some apple on the top of the background. We put some apple on this container. We put some on the first level of our chopping board, and also we put the apple on the second level of our chopping board, okay, because this is the first level and this is the second level, by putting your apple in different position will also help you to make your picture looks more beautiful and like naturally crafted. And then the second one is because we have so many item here. The one that I limit is the number of color. So to make it more beautiful, I limit the number of colors so the number of color in this frame, It's only green and bright yellow. Okay, So that is the only color that I wanted to put in this frame to make it well-coordinated. And then for me, the maximum number of color in the background. I mean, if you shoot something on the plate, I don't limit the color on the plate because you can put any color on the plate because the plate is the star. If you take although on a plate, but on the background outside your main subject, I usually limit the number of color on the background, not more than four colors to make it more simple and to make it more focus on the main object. Okay, So there is another tip and then also we have another ingredients here. I also put it in different positions and different bowl like this. We have less small wooden bowl like this. If you put it like this, and also create different shapes and different hate of your cherry tomato. Okay, so I count this setting as one item. Okay, So we didn't just cherry tomato. You can like so many items. Let's count how many types of settings of cherry tomato that we use in this frame. Okay, So this is the first one, this is the normal one. This is two plus one, and this is the second one. You can see we put it in this burn bowl and then this is the third one. We cut it in half. So it did different texture because we cut it in half. And then also we put the cherry tomato on the top of each level of our chopping board. Okay, the first-level of chopping board, we also put some tomato here on the background also, and on the highest level of the chopping board, also our k, and then also we have some breadcrumb here. I want to put different textures, smaller texture in our frame. So also use darker bowl like this. Actually this one is the wooden one that I painted by myself. So you can get darker bowl again. And then another ingredient is the leaves. Okay? Yeah. Then maybe you ask how to set all of them to make it well-coordinated. Okay? So the first one is, even if you have so many items, don't put all the items on the same level. If you put this on the same level, which means you don't use any chopping work to form the leveling. Like this. No matter how many items you put on the background, the picture will look so simple, even if the background is already full, but you still feel like it is not right. Okay. On the picture, I suggest to you to put as many levels as possible to make it more dramatic, okay? Yeah. Okay. And then another tapes start with the biggest items first, I count this one as one item, so we put all the biggest item first, like this one. Okay, This bread. And you can continue with the second largest item, which is Apple. Yeah, we can put the apple and then the next one is the smaller commando Cherry, yeah, and the cheese. Okay. And then you can follow with the leaves and the levels. One, you can end it with the breadcrumb, the smaller one, okay? That is how we set our frame, okay, start with the larger one and end with the smallest one. And then what props that cannot be in this frame, okay, The first row is, I won't put any color, any object with a color that is not match with this one, okay? For example, if you put a big solid white jar on the setting, then it will destroy all of your harmony because large white jar will distract the attention of people who feel this picture. The one that I suggest to you to use the jar like this, the glass jar, that if you put it like this, then it will blend with the dark background over here, okay? And then also the small jar like this, it is also will make your settings well-coordinated. Okay, I also don't use many crops because it is also sometimes can distract our eyes. Yeah, there is some days and I will see you in the next section. 20. Project 5 : Lighting Setting: Hey guys. In this section, I will explain to you about the lighting position here. Okay. So because most of the item shape is round like this. Okay, so I wanted to make sure that round items looks pop out, looks three-dimensional. So I want you to make sure that there's proper highlight and shadow, every single shape of the items here. So who makes sure that it looks beautiful? R, k. So the lighting position here on the right corner there. Okay, I'll explain to you the position first. The distance between the center here to the lighting is about 1.3 metre, 130 centimeter. And the distance here from the center here to the lighting is about 50 centimeter and the hate difference between the background to the lighting is about 70 centimeter. Okay. One thing you have to make sure is because there is high items here. If we shoot it back light, you have to make sure that this shadow doesn't make this item looks dark. That's why I make the lightning is higher because I want to make sure that there's proper lighting on the front area here because this is quite high. And if I shoot it with the low lighting than this area on the front will become a shadow. Okay, that's how we plan our lighting here. And then to make sure that my chair here also get the light theme, I made sure that my chair is still over the light source. Okay. I don't want to make the chair look over here because there's no lighting gear, so it will be very dark and there's no point. You put the chair over here, okay. Because this chair is black and the background is also black. If I put it like this, they won't get any lighting at all, then you won't see any chair over here. Okay. Yeah. Be mindful to put it facing the lighting source there to make sure that there's beautiful texture over here. Okay. It is that simple. This is how we live our life being here. And yeah, you can start do the Photoshop. 21. Project 5 : Photoshoot & Photo Preview: Just taken the photos in here and then I will show you the result. Reason between before and after. Okay, I have some tips for you. If you are shooting in the dark, raspy mode like this, okay, using the smartphone, okay. So when you shoot it, we have the low light using smartphone. I suggest to you to check every single photo that you have taken. I suggest to you to zoom in in very detail to make sure that your picture is not shaking because it is very easy to get this shaky picture when you take in low light condition like this. Okay? Yeah. Then in the editing section, I will explain to you how we get proper color for this green and then also the proper exposure for all of them. And also because this route is brown and I will make it look a little bit gray using smartphone and how to make the drain look natural. We will explain it step by step in the editing section. So I'll see you there. 22. Project 5: Edit Your Scene with Lightroom!: Okay. Hello, guys. We've entered the last meal guys. This is a very busy meal guys, lots of fruit and also other objects. Well, guys, I'll edit using the steps that I've provided in the previous video. Here, I'm going to the lighting menu guys. Well, in the lighting menu, I'll first reduce the exposure to -0.03. As for the contrast, I don't set it at all. For the highlights here, I'll reduce it to -70. Okay guys, if it's done, I'll set it in the shadows. For the shadows menu, I'll reduce it to -100. Then for the whites, I'll add the plus 75 here. For the blacks, I don't control it at all. Then here, I'm going to the curve menu under the lighting menu. I'll make three dots first. I'll just add a little at the bottom. I increase it a little, then I lowered it just a little bit in the highlight section. Then for the mites, I add a little. Okay, guys, until it's like this, then we can immediately click done. If you're already on the lighting menu, here, I'm going to the color menu. In the color menu, I'll reduce the ten to -13. Then here, I'm going to the color mix, guys. In the color mix in the red, I'll first reduce the hue to minus three. Then for the saturation here, I'll reduce it to -20 to -21. Then for the luminz I'll reduce it at minus nine, almost to minus ten. Then I'll move to arrange. Then I'll add the hue at plus seven. Then for the saturation here, I'll reduce it to -49. For the luminance here, I don't set it at all. Then for the yellow color, I'll reduce the hue to minus three. Then for the saturation, I'll reduce it to -57. Then for the luminance, I'll let it stay zero in green color because there's a lot of green here. I'll increase the hue until it's plus 17. Then for the saturation, I'll reduce it to -17 as well. Then for the min, I'll reduce it to -70. Then intercoe color here, I don't say it at all. Therefore, I'll continue to the blue. In the blue, I'll leave the hue at zero. Then for the saturation, I'll reduce it to -18. For the mins, I leave it at zero. Then for the purple and pink colors, I'll use left a line or -100 for the saturation. If it's done, then I'll click done. Okay, guys, we'll go straight to the fx menu. Well, in the fx menu, I'll use the Vignette at -30. Then I'll change the midpoint here to zero. Then for the roundness here, I'll add plus 95. In the feather here, I'll add it to 100. We move to the details menu. In the details menu, I'll add the sharpening up to 130 close to 140. For the masking, I'll add it to 100 or align it. Then for the noise reduction, here, I'll add it to 34. Okay. Then for the color noise reduction, I'll add it until it is right line guys. If it's done, I'll move to the Optics menu. Well, in the Optics menu, I'm going to remove chromatic aberration guys. I click the tick. Well, then here I'll use the masking menu guys to mask the areas we want. If you don't have the masking menu or you haven't upgraded Adobc room guys. You can adjust this color in the color mix menu guys. Just adjust it according to your need guys with the colors here, because I've already changed the saturation to be small in number. Therefore, I'll set it in the masking menu. Well, in the masking menu, I'll first select the fruits first guys. Here I'm going to select the fruit, our fruit object in this section. If it's selected, I'll set it in the color menu. Here I'll increase the saturation to plus 28. Okay guys, here, I'm going to select the bottom part of this photo using a linear gradient. I'll select from the bottom to the top. More or less like this, guys, then guys, I'm going to the lighting menu. In the lighting menu, I'll reduce the exposure to minus four guys, which is left align. Then here, I'll also reduce the highlight two -20, guys. Then here I'll also reduce the blacks at minus five. If it's done, we can immediately click the tech, then guys here, I'll select the top part. It's the background here, guys, because there are lots of leaky areas guys here. Therefore, I'll use the select subject guys. Well in the select subject, you can automatically select the subject you want. For example, here, I'll select the section. If the object you want is not all selected, you can just use the brush tool directly, then you can brush manually like this. Okay, guys. Okay, guys. If you've selected all of these sections, you can just infert immediately. Click Invert to select outside the sections we've selected. You can see here, the part that's red is the one that we've selected. However, what we want to change is the background. Therefore, I want to set it in the part that we haven't selected yet. Therefore, I'll invert the part that we selected using the invert mask, so it will be like this guys. Well, if it's like this guys, you can just delete the parts you don't want to select guys. For example, like this. Yes. Well, if you're done, you can go directly to the light menu. I'll reduce the highlights to -100. Then for the shadows here, I'll reduce it to -100. For the whites here, I'll reduce it to. Then for the blacks, I'll reduce it to the left line, which is -100. Well, if it's like this guys, you can immediately click the tick, then the background of your photo will be dark or full black. Well, this is the image we want guys for this foot. This is the B four. There are still lots of leaks on the edges above and below. When we've edited it, the results is like this guys. The image becomes more focused on the foot and also other areas become darker in color. Well, if it's like that, we can just exp directly, click the share icon above, then, guys. You can directly export to camera. Okay, guys, when it's finished, your photos will be immediately exported to your gallery. Well, that's a tutorial on how we can edit rustic photos, guys. Actually, to edit rustic photos, guys, you only need to set four menus or five of these menus. It's actually finished. You only need to practice little ball to have an edit sense of how you can process images according to your preference. If you want to edit, you can immediately see the tutorial. You can edit while watching the tutorial. Follow the step by step carefully, guys, so you can get the images you want, guys. And also the images that are worthy of being posted, guys. That's all for this rustic smartphone photo tutorial. See you next time. Thank you, guys. 23. Bye bye!: Okay guys, finally we're reaching the end of our course, but actually, this is the start of your journey, okay? So actually I have some tips for you. The first one is sometimes, I also feel that if I start learning something new, it is easy to feel frustrated when we first do the practice part. Okay. It is very easy to feel frustrated like when you first practice. Oh my God, I think this is wrong. Oh my God. This is row. Oh, my god, I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't do that. Okay. It is very easy to feel that. But the one that you have to pay attention is even for a professional photographer, like myself, when I do the photo shoot, the first 15 minutes of my photo shoot, maybe like 20 until 25 picture. I pay for the first 15 minutes. Most of the time I delete those pictures because most of the time I use pen until 15 minutes to trial and error. Okay. So when you are doing your practice, you don't have to be frustrated before your first one hour, your first two hour. You don't have to feel frustrated because the enjoyment of this entire photoshoot is the process. When you take the first picture, you add another element. You take another picture, you move the lighting, and you take another picture to do to compare each of those picture. And vinyl you take 2020 per cent of the picture that you want to add it. Okay, so feel free to change and apply many techniques that I have already shared in the course. And then I suggest to you if you are doing your photo shoot, you can also play this course once again to make sure that you follow every detail of the instruction. Wow, I'm so excited to see the result. If you have already do the practice, feel free to share. And then I will see you again in the next course.