Smartphone Smoke Food Photography : How to Take Amazing Smoke Food Photos with Your Phone!

1. ECO23 Introduction: Welcome to the eyes. Again. This time, I will show you how I create a beautiful picture like this. And then, as you know, we shot this picture only using my phone. And then look at the big J closely. Some of them I showed using the iPhone X, and some of them I showed only using iPhone six again. So then I believe you post this kind of picture. No one will know that it is produced the only smartphone or even using iPhone sick there is enough. Okay. So the topic for this course is how does showed a beautiful food photography using only the old smartphone and then how to create a beautiful smoke effect. The smoke effect is also shot using smartphones. Some of them is edited, some of them is real. I will show you how we create a real smoke. And I will show you also how to create I didn't smoke, but looks very natural hierarchy. So I'm so excited and I will see you in the course. 2. ECO23 Introduction of Smartphone Camera: Okay guys, I have a tapes for you. If you are using the smartphone camera in many smartphone camera, 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 distortion. 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 than normal wide angle lens. Okay, I will take one big change 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 dredge to the edge of our picture. So this is the limitation of the wide angle lens because Yep, this distortion make the picture looks 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 portrayed bands. So I just assumed that we all have standard 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 with zooming in. You can see the difference in the side area of the beach in our case. So this is the little secret that will increase the quality of the picture you take using your smartphone. 3. ECO23 A01 First Food – Choose the right props & Compose Your Shot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. In this section, I will explain to you the preparation, this picture, okay? Okay. And then I will show you how we create this feature step-by-step, and this is the preparation. Okay, so as you can see here, we have a couple of background and I will show you like this one. Okay, this is the background that we used to block the light thing and we use the darker word here. And then our main background is the wooden background like this. Okay? If you don't have the wooden background, you can also use the board background like this. Actually we pin this background by ourselves. It is very easy. You just used the thin wood playing like this and then use the dark gray and bright gray pain. We just mix dark gray and bright gray and pain on the wood plank like this. Okay, and then in the scene, I really want to create a table scene. So I use the small table here. And then under the table, I also put the background here, okay, there's a dark background here. So while I take the shock from this area, it will look like the floor. Okay, and then for the setup here, I really want to make sure that my foot here is the hero. Okay? I don't want to distract any of the items. So I use the darker prompts like this one, the small basket that I put the eight here, and I purposefully use the darker basket here, and then also the chopping board here. I turn the chopping board here is half the wooden color, and I paint it by myself, so it looks a little bit darker, so it doesn't distract our scene because, yeah, if you put very bright item in this scene, it will strike all of the picture, okay, so I conciously choose the darker props to make sure that this is the main hero that naturally will be highlighted. And I also use the gray tablecloth here, and then use the garlic and also some greens. Okay, and then underneath our mole here, I use the small chopping board like this, actually for food photography. My favorite items is the smallest chopping board. This, okay, I think this is just like 15 to 17 centimeter for the diameter, and then this one is just 20 centimeter. It is really easy to use the smaller one because if you put it under your background, it doesn't dominate your picture, okay? It will create a beautiful effect and also use the small chopping board like this. It will make your foot looks bigger. That is the most important part. Then while you set your bowl on the background here, maybe sometimes if you directly put your ball to the background like this, sometimes it looks like, is it too simple? Can I make this picture looks more beautiful? Sometimes if you feel like that, maybe you have to use the leveling technique, okay? This is the leveling technique that you have to apply, maybe some of your food photography. Sometimes you have to put some layers below your bowl here to make sure that you add more complexity in your settings, but it doesn't distract your picture. Okay? Sometimes I use four layers below or above the ball here, okay? This time, this is the first layer I put. This ball is the second layer, and then the third layer is this one. Okay, So first level, second level, third level, okay? Sometimes to add more complexity to make the settings more beautiful, I use at least three until five levels on my main subject here, okay, after the chopping board, sometimes you can also put the tablecloth here that also work. Okay? Yeah, this is how we prepare our settings here. And I will explain to you how we liked this picture in the next section. So I will see you in the next section. 4. ECO23 A02 First Food – Lighting Setting & Photoshoot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And in this section I will reveal the secret enlightening settings for food photography. Or this time, I want to edit the photos. I want to add the smoke in the photo in editing section later. But if you want to create a beautiful smoke editing, you also have to make sure that the photo is right. Okay, so I really want to add the smoke here later in the editing section. But while doing the photo shoot, I have to make sure that the area that I want to add small will be darker than usual. Okay, So this area, the front end should be darker. The background area also should be darker. And the site area here also, we have to make it darker than usual. Okay. So the first I will explain to you about the lighting position, okay. The Latin position here, it's just 50 centimeter from the light into our main subject here. And then the position is exactly on the left side of our food, exactly where the lightning is here. So the lighting is exactly on the left side of our foot here. And then the head of our lab is about like just three centimeter higher than our bowl. And then have you ever experience that you shot a really pale product like this? Okay, if you see this one, it is consist of like white noodle and then also dumplings. Most of the ingredients of this bowl is white, so it kind of boring. But that is a lighting technique that you can apply to make this become more beautiful. Okay, So since it is really pale, there's no color here. I really want to create a nice three-dimensional effect. So RLC are you, this is the result I really want to make. If you see this picture, okay? You can see that the texture is so beautiful and then you can really see the difference between highlight and shadow. The lighting is very harsh to create a three-dimensional effect on our bowl here. Okay, How to do that? Okay. Usually while you're doing the photoshoot, sometimes you should cover like this one. You see the white cloth here. Actually this one will diffuse the light thing. It will reduce the texture of our food, okay, but since our foot here is dominated by white color, I really want to create a harsh shadow to make the picture more punchy. Okay, so I released this one. Then I let my lighting become more harsh. So it will create the effect like this. But the story doesn't end here. Because after you already positioned delighting, the next job is to make sure that the lighting only focus on our bot and the surrounding area will become darker. That's why I use for many board to block the light thing here. Okay? I will release the blocking first, okay, then I will show you the result if I'm not blocking the liking. Okay, So I raised the blocking and then I will show you the result without the blocking. Here you go. Hey, as you can see the picture here, without a blocking, the lactic is evenly come through all the area and then there's no focus on our image. Okay, but while we do the blocking here, I used this board to block the back area of the foot, and then I use another board to block the front area of our bowl here. Okay. So yeah, the lighting only come through this area. Okay. Straight chew our food. And then the last one is maybe you are wondering why I put the board here, okay? So actually there is no lighting in this position, but the dark color will reduce the light beam. Okay, So if you don't put the blackboard here, the lagging will still come to this area. But if you've put a dark board here, this area will become darker, okay, because it reduced the lighting come from that position k. So this is how we set our lagging here. The most important point here is if you want to create a very beautiful dark, moody, and then if you want to more smoke in our image later in the editing section, I suggest to you to make the surrounding darker so it will become more beautiful. And to do that, I suggest to you to use blocking like this. So remember, it's not just only about the lighting strategy, but the blocking also as important as the lighting position I k. So next, before I shot this picture, I will show you some tricks to create a beautiful picture using your smartphone, okay, after you open your camera like this, as you can see that I use the photo mode and then usually maybe you take the picture directly like this, but you have to know that camera phone usually use the wide angle lens. So as you can see from here, the camera is really wide and it doesn't look proportional. And you can see in the back area like this here, we call this this portion. Okay. I don't really like this torsion and food photography or product photography. So I suggest to you you still can use the photo mode, but to reduce the distortion effect, you have to zoom in from 1.52, okay, this is 1.5 and then another one is 2.0. Okay? So then I will show you the difference between both of them. Okay? This is the picture. We only use the photos without a zooming in. And then another one is the one that we zoom in. Okay, I really liked the one that we zoom in because it looks proportional and it doesn't look like perspective picture. And then another technique is you can also use portrait mode. Maybe nowadays, most of the camera phone have portrait mode. In portrait mode, you don't have to zoom in anymore. Okay, it looks more proportional directly because in portrait mode, we use the different lens. We don't use the white, but we use the portrait lens. So it looks more proportional and it looks better. Okay? So you have options. Who use the portrait or you can also use the photo mode, but you zoom in 1.5 until two times. Okay? So I'm so excited to paint this picture and let's do it. 5. ECO23 A03 First Food – Photo Preview: Hey guys, We have already done our photo shoot and then I will show you the result of the row picture. And then this is the comparison between before and after the editing. And then as you know that the one, the row picture that I show you, this is the one that we shot with the iPhone six. Okay. Before I already paid using the iPhone X, but I'm not satisfied. I really want to know how far we can push the editing quality. So even if you use the old smartphone, like I've won six, okay, How to increase the quality from iPhone 62? Beautiful picture. And yes, this is the result of the picture that we shot with the iPhone six. And why I show this one, because I know maybe not all of you have the proper tools to create a beautiful picture. Maybe some of you only use the old DSLR. Maybe some of you are not confident between the smartphone that you use, okay? But one of the secret is the editing. In the editing section, I will show you how to increase the quality. So even if you shot with the iPhone six, then no one will know. Oh, okay. So I will see you in the editing section. 6. ECO23 A04 First Food - Editing Session: Okay, hello everyone. So we've entered the editing section stage guys, after we did the photo shoot. And also some of the explanations at the beginning. Okay, now I use an application called to be Light Room guys. Well guys, you can download it directly on the App Store or Playstore guys, because this application is free, guys, you can just download it directly. Well, here are the raw photos from the photos we took guys. Well, this photo is still really lacking, guys. There are still noise, it still looks blurry and it still doesn't look that prominent in the foot area guys. Well, the point of editing is that we'll make this photo more interesting, better, and also more visible to our main object guys in the foot area. Well, I'm already in Edobilite room on my phone guys. This is the initial display when you've imported your photos into the application. Well, here are some menus that you can add it. Well, I'll immediately enter the lighting menu, guys. Well, this menu is the most important menu for me to edit. First of all, here I'll change the curve. Well, in this curve there is a line like this guys. Well here we can change the line. Well, for me, I usually make three dots first. Like this guys, 12.3 Well when it's done here, I'll raise the mid to this middle area is the mid tone guys. Then for the highlight, the highlight is at the top guys. I'm going to lower the highlight a bit. Okay, then below is the shadows here. I'm going to lower the shadows. Just a little guys. Okay, More or less like this guys, then we can immediately click done. Then guys, after we edited the curve section, we'll go to other sections like this guys. Well, here I'll add the x sure, more or less up to plus 40. Then for contrast here, I don't increase it. Then here are the highlights. The highlight is the reflection of light from your lighting onto the foot object. Well, like this, the white ones are highlights. Well, here I want to reduce the highlight In this photo, I'll reduce the highlights guys, more or less -40 Okay, well then after highlight here are shadows here. I'll add the shadows more or less to the right, which is plus 100 guys because here the object is too dark in my opinion. Then for the whites here, I'll add plus 35 guys. Then for the blacks here, I'll reduce it to -35 guys. Well, that's more or less for the lighting menu section guys. Well, for the explanation, the black guys, blacks will increase the darkness in areas that are dark or black in color. Well, here, the black one is going to be really dark. Okay guys, totally dark. Then for whites is the brightness. If shadows is the shadow, then highlight is the reflection of lighting guys, then the exposure is the overall light in your photos. Well, when we've edited the lighting section, we can immediately move on to another section, the color guys. Well, in the color menu section, I'll change the temperature to plus five. Okay. Then for the ten, I'll change it to plus three. Okay. After that, we can immediately enter the mixed color menu. In the section guys, there is something called mixed color. I just press it then here I'll show some of the colors guys. These are the colors that we'll addit in our photo. Specifically, guys, for example, if there is red in color in your photo, then we can immediately addit the red color here. For example, here for red, I'll reduce the hue two minus ten. Then for the saturation, I'll add plus nine, okay? Okay, for the luminance, I don't set it at all. Then we'll move to the orange color. In this orange color, I'll add the hue plus 15. Then for the saturation I add it two plus 25. Okay? Then we'll then move on to the yellow color. In this yellow color, I'll add plus five to the hue. Then for the saturation, I'll reduce it to -17 For the luminance, I don't set it anymore. Then we'll go into the green color. For the green color, I'll add the hue to plus 14 guys. Okay, for the saturation here, because in my opinion, the green areas are still lacking. I'll add the saturation up to plus 100 guys. That the green part of the area lights up guys. Then I'll move on to the turquoise color. Well, in the turquoise color, I'll reduce the saturation to -100 because in my opinion, the turquoise color will disturb the mood of our photo guys. Then we'll move on to the blue color. Well, the blue color is also the same guys. I'll reduce the saturation here to -100 But for the here I'll increase it slightly to plus six. Okay, then we'll move on to the purple color. In the purple color, same guys. I'll reduce the saturation to -100 because in this photo there is no purple color. I'll meet the purple color here up to -100 Why? Because if there really is some purple color around our photos, it will disturb the mood and feel of our photos, guys. Then we move on to pink. I'm also going to reduce the saturation to -100 If it's done guys, you can immediately click down here guys. Okay, next we go to the next menu, the effect menu. In the effect menu guys, first I'll add the texture guys. Well, what is the texture? The texture will increase the sharpness of areas on your object that are textured. It's only going to enhance the textured parts like in the photo that is in the dumplings guys here, it does look textured. When we increase the texture, the texture of the dumplings will increase guys. Well, that's the magic ice. Then for the clarity, I'll just add a little. Well, okay, well, I'll reduce the fine here to -30 The point of the net is to focus on the main object in your photos. Then under the Fignete there is the midpoint here. I'll also reduce it to ten guys, so that the fignette, we'll point to the object of the photos guys on the dumplings. Well, okay guys, if we're done with the effect menu, we'll go directly to the optics menu. Well, the optics menu is simple. You only need to activate remove chromatic aberration here guys, just click guys. Very simple guys. Well guys, actually for editing that's enough guys, this is the before, this is after guys. The difference looks so far isn't guys just editing these four men. Guys, you've got clear photos better than the initial photo. More beautiful to look at the mood of the smoke. Looks more visible to guys. More focus on the foot, guys. Well, this is the before and this is the after guys. Well, that's better, right? Well guys, you can just export it directly. However, in this editing I'll add a menu called Masking Guys. This masking menu is in Adbliteroom, which is indeed paid for. Those of you who don't subscribe to adult room, you can just follow to edit the four menus in the section. Then you'll get a better photo than the first photo. However, if you subscribe to adult room on your smartphone, you can just follow our method of masking in this masking menu. Guys, how to use it. We first click masking. Then here I'll use the radial gradient. Well, in this radial gradient, you can form a circle. On the main object guys, I'm going to make a circle here. Then you can set the menu that we've set earlier, but only in the selected part, guys. Just the one in the red part? Well, that's the greatness of the masking menu in adobe light room. Guys, we can go directly to the lighting menu. We'll add the lighting here. I'll add exposure to plus 31 to make our main menu brighter for the contrast here. I'll reduce it two minus ten guys. It's not too flashy either because if for example we increase the exposure, the contrast of our photos will increase two. Then we'll reduce the highlights here. We will reduce it two -25 Okay. Then for shadows here, I will add guys up to plus 40. Well, this will make the colors of photo more stand out guys. Okay. Then there's thing called whites. Well, in the whites we'll add up to plus seven for the blacks. I'll reduce it by just a little guys here. I'll reduce it to minus two. Okay then guys, we'll go to the color menu. Well, in the color menu, I'll increase the saturation only in the section, in the part that we selected earlier. Guys in the masking, well, we add the saturation up to plus six. Then I'll go to the effect menu. Guys in the effect menu, I'll increase the texture. Well, for the clarity here, I'll add up to plus five. Then I'll also add the dehaze up to plus three. Okay, just a little guys. Well, for the details menu, there is something called sharpness here. The sharpness is the sharpness level of our photo guys. Well, for the sharpness in this image, I'll add up to plus five just a little bit. Not too much because if you increase the sharpness too much, your photos will be broken guys. Okay guys, if you're done in this section, we can immediately click the thick button here, guys. Then we can add more giz, the radial gradient area in the focus of our first object, which is on the dumplings guys. Well, for the dumplings, when we've selected them, we'll go to the lighting menu. In the lighting menu, we'll reduce the highlight, two -20 Then I'll just add a little more for the exposure here. Two plus 15 maybe. Okay, then for the shadows here, I'll add plus four guys, so that our main object will more stand out guys. Then for the whites here, I'll add plus 15 more guys so that the dumplings look more prominent guys. Okay. Then for the blacks, I'll add plus seven to make it look more H D guys. Then for the color menu guys, I'll increase the saturation up to plus 15. Then for the temperature here, I'll add it to plus three because here I want the dumplings to not only look pale white but slightly yellowish guys, just like the original dumplings. Okay, we can check list here guys. Well, in this course, our main focus besides the foot, we also add the smoke guys in the smoke section. I'll also use the masking. Unlike before, I use the radial gradient. Now we'll select our main object. With the brush tool, we can brush the parts we want to change. Here, I'll brush on the smoke guys. Well, this is the part of the smoke object that we want to change. Well, in the part of the smoke object that we want to change, we'll increase the light guys. In the light, we'll add up two plus 0.75, guys, so that the smoke is more feasible. That's it. Well, for the color here, I want to change it to make it a little bluish. Guys here, I'll reduce it to minus nine guys. Then for the tin here, I'll add up to plus 15. Okay. Then for the saturation here, I'll add it to plus two in the smoke part. Okay, then for the details here, I'll add the noise section up to plus 50. If it's done we can immediately click checklist here. Then here I'll select another part of the smoke first at the top, I'll first select guys. Then I'm going to reduce the saturation. Because the saturation at the top is a bit bluish. I'm going to reduce the saturation here. Okay, then here there is also a part of the smoke which is a bit greenish. So I'll select it with a brush. Then here I'll reduce the saturation to minus stand. Just a little guys. Okay, the guy here, I'll select at the bottom guys, because here you can see that there are several gaps guys. You can still see the gap under the table guys, I'm going to select the masking here, then I'll use the linear gradient. If earlier we use the radial gradient and also the brush, now we'll use the linear gradient. Well, how to use this linear gradient? It's easy, guys. You can immediately click and then drag it over guys, Then you just have to change its position according to what you want. Well, here I'll edit the lighting section, then I'll make it left a line for the exposure guys, so it becomes dark guys. Then I'll make the highlights and shadows left a line to -100 The shadows are the same, I will reduce it to -100 If it's done, you can immediately check list guys, this is the result guys. The photo at the bottom will look more darker and not disturb the area around our main object. Why? Because we've just edited the masking where we want it and the gaps that were still visible are now in visible. Guys. Then guys, here, I'll also add the linear gradient in this section. Guys, while the method is the same as before, we used the linear gradient, I edited the lighting new guys, I'm going to reduce the highlights and also the shadows because this part is the position where our lighting shoots the light onto our foot. Well, usually a lot of lighting will be left. Because here I want to make the mood more visible than the main object area in this object. I'll darken it guys. Okay, we can immediately check list here guys. Well lastly, when I look at, again, the object of our foot is still noise. I'm going to use the radial gradient only for the ball area. Well, here I'll reduce the noise in the Details menu. Then I'll add the noise up to plus 20 so that the foot in our balls doesn't look broken, guys. Okay guys, if you're done then actually the editing process for this food photo is finished guys, this is the before it still looks bad, guys. After we edit and this is after guys. Okay guys, if you're done guys, you can just export it by clicking the shared logo above. You can immediately click Export to Camera. So your photos can be directly saved in your galleries. Well, if you're done, then your photos can be directly stored in your galleries and you can just upload them directly on your social media or in your sales area. Well, that's all. Maybe for the editing section on this food photo. Thanks for watching it to the end, then we'll continue on to the next photo, guys. Thank you guys. 7. ECO23 B01 Second Food – Choose the right props & Compose Your Shot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section and we will create an amazing picture like this. Okay, so I want to explain to you step-by-step. So don't worry, this time we use the real smoke or gay, It's not added at one, but it is real. Then the setup is really simple. I believe that you also have a cup of tea in your home. And then I also believe that it is very easy to order some cookies like this in your home. Okay, So this is just who ingredients. And then we also use some of small chopping board like this. Yeah, the first strategy is I want to make the T-loop dominant so I don't put the tea directly to the background, but under the t, I put two chopping board like this to make it higher. So the image of this T looks more dominant. It make the tea higher and looks more dominant. And then if you only have cookies like this in your home, then you have to be more strategy. Not just put the cookies like this, but you can also have options to make different texture of the cookies. The first one is because I take this picture directly on the front of our T here, then I stack the cookies like this to make it looks more color. This is the first form of the cookies, okay? The second form is I just spread the cookies on the second form. The third form is, I break the cookies like this. So it gives a different feel, different texture. And then also I cross the cookies. That is the fourth form. Okay? So even if you only have one kind of item, you have to remember because you always have the choice to create different texture of your ingredients. Okay? Yeah, this is how we prepare our scene. Here. I said that T on the center of our frame and then you will also need dislikes Blackboard to block the lighting. Okay? Yes. And then you will also need this large blackboard here. Okay. I'll put it here. And then another tip is because you plan to have the smoke come from here and then also the cookies that is levitating here, okay, if you want to make your work easier in the editing section, I suggest to you to not put any object here. If you put so many object on the background here, it will really hard to crop and combine the picture later, okay, just let the background here clean and then you can combine the picture easier. Okay, So this is the introduction, and in the next section, I will show you how we live this picture. Okay, I'll see you in the next section. 8. ECO23 B02 Second Food – Lighting Setting: Okay guys, In this accident, I will explain to you how we set our lighting here. Okay. So the first one is here. Okay. I would like the position is just the same as the shot before. The distance between our lighting to our beautiful d here is only 50 cm, okay? It's 50 centimeter, and then it's Exactly on the left position of our beverage here. This is the light bulb here. The height is the same, okay? With the different share, Okay? And then it is also very important to make sure that the background is very dark because we want to create a beautiful small effect on the background. So I have to make sure that the beggar is completely dark. So the first one is, I have to block the light thing with this huge blackboard here. Actually, I have to put something to make it higher because I have to make sure that the this area doesn't effected by the lighting because if I put it here because it is lower than the lagging will come through this area later, higher like this. Okay. And then the second one is this background actually, to make it darker, it is also very easy because the lightning is come through this area. You just have to kill the background facing here. Facing there. Okay. So the lightning won't come from this area. Okay, So I purposefully set the background facing that area. And then the final one is in this background. This is the background that I use to make sure that there's no lighting in here. Okay, So this is also the blackboard here. Actually, you will use so many dark board here. Usually I paid it by myself to make it cheaper. Okay. And then for this kind of shot, you have to use this tripod, okay? Because you have to chart the consistent position, because you have to combine each of the picture later in the editing section, okay? Yes, the first picture you have opaque is the main picture. This is the main feature that we will use. So I will take one first and then the next one is we have to take this levitation items here, have some peanut cookies here, and then I put some wire on the peanut cookies so I can hold it like this, okay, to make the editing section easier, okay, I have tips for you. You have to make sure that your hands is far away from your cookies here. Because sometimes if you're accidentally like shot like this, then it is very hard to crop the cookies here because there's your hand on a bag of cookies. So please make sure that you hold it like this to make sure that the bed area here is dark, okay? Yep. And then another tip is, if you want to, the beautiful lighting effect on the cookies, you have to face the cookies to the source of the lighting. So you tilt the cookies so they get the lighting from there. So the texture will be very beautiful. But if you face the cookies to this area, since there's no lighting here, the texture won't be that beautiful. Okay? So you have to make sure that at least you have more discrete facing that area. Okay? Yeah. Okay. We just hold it like this and take the picture. Okay. Yeah. And then you can also hold in different position. Okay. Yeah. Actually there's no pressure in taking the levitation photography like this. Just have fun and then explore many position because it will be very useful in the edit bay session if you have so many options. Okay? Yep, we have already picked some options for the cookies position. And then the next one, I will show you how we create a beautiful smoke effect here, okay, This time we don't edit the smoke. This is the real smoke that is produced from the dry ice. Okay, whether I will show you in the next section how we create a beautiful smoke using dry ice. Okay, let's do it. 9. ECO23 B03 Second Food – Introduce Dry Ice & Photoshoot: Hey guys. Now, we have already prepared the dry ice here. Actually, while I purchased the dry eyes, it is the very large block and then we make it smaller like this. Actually, it is very cold here, k. And then to create a beautiful smoke effect, we put it in small bowl like this, and then we put it with water. If you want to create more dramatic smoke, I suggest to you to use the hot water. Actually this is the boil water here. So the hot water and really cold dry ice will create very beautiful small effect. Okay? So like this, okay, You can get so many smoke like this if you use the hot water. Okay. I suggest to you to use what hot water. If you use hot water and then times goes by, the smoke will be less. You just change the water, you pour the water and change into the new hot water. Okay. So I suggest to you to prepare another bowl to put the cold water. Okay. So I don't see any smoke at all. So I pour the water K and then add another hot water, then the smoke will come up again like this. Okay? Yes. So this is how we create the smoke effect. So I will ask my assistant to put in this position and take as many pictures as possible. Okay. Sometime is quite tricky, but take as many pictures as possible so you have option to choose which one is the best fit for you. Okay, so let's do it. 10. ECO23 B04 Second Food – Photo Preview: Okay, guys, we have already done the photo shoot with a hundreds of pictures. Okay. Yeah. Because we can control where the smoke will be and then we just take take, take all of the picture. So we have already selected some of Best Picture in our first-gen. And here you go, the row picture. We select the one with the smoke. We also select another one with the cookies, and then we combine it with smartphone. And here's the result. The fun fact is, this is the first thing that we shot using the old iPhone. Okay? This is the First-Gen that we use, iPhone six, okay? Actually, the raw file is only 900 kilobyte. The quality is very low, but we can prepare and create into this beautiful picture. Okay, So why I shop with the old smartphone is because even if you shot with the batter gadget, the better smartphone, I believe that the result will be way, way better if you want to know step-by-step, the workflow, how we edit this picture. Then I will see you in the next session in the editing section. 11. ECO23 B05 Second Food - Editing Session: Hello guys. Now we've come to the second dish, guys. Well, because the second foot is levitation and we happen to only edit on smartphone. Therefore we need another application besides Do be light room. That's why I'm here using Pigs Art as the application for us to cut first the part we want to make. Levitation guys. Well, how now? Here I've entered the main page of Pigs Art. Then we can just click at here. There is a photo in this photo menu. We select the photo that we've chosen to cut guys, here, I chose this photo. Well guys, you can just look for a menu called Cut Out Guys. You can just click Cut Out. Well guys, there is something called Select and Outline. Well, we chose the outline guys. After we select Outline, we here want to cut just the biscuits guys. Therefore, we'll just select the biscuits by cutting them. Like this guys, we tidy up guys. Okay, if you're done guys, you can immediately click on this section guys. Well guys, you can click right away. Then the photos that we've selected will be cut right away. Guys, like this, the outside is immediately cut. Guys, well, you can immediately tidy up the selected parts. You can immediately click safe here. Then the photos have been cut. Guys, just in this section, just the biscuits. We, therefore, we can immediately click next. Then guys, you can immediately click safe Here guys, the safe picture on your device. Okay, if it's done, then your photos have been selected and have also been cut into one part. Examples like this guys. Well, we'll continue to the next photo guys. The second photo which is this photo guys, then we cut it, two guys using the same method. Okay guys, we click Outline, then we select the biscuit part. Okay, If it's done, we can immediately click on this. Guys guys, your photo will be cropped again. The click next, then click Safe. Then the photos are stored in your gallery, guys. Okay guys, if you've cut off the parts that you indeed want to levitate, you can just join them right away. How you can open a photo that doesn't have levitation in this section, guys, the photos you've already taken. Okay. Well if it's been open guys, you can immediately click at or at a photo here guys. Then click on the part of the photo that we've selected guys, and also the guys, then click at here. Then the photos will be attached. Well, in this section, guys, you can directly adjust which part of the biscuit you want. You can adjust the size of the biscuits, whether big or small size. You can adjust and arrange the position in such a way. Okay guys, if it fits like this, then the photos will already fly. Guys guys, you can immediately click Apply, then click Next. Then we save guys. Okay, after that, let's move directly to the lit room application. Guys, let's go Okay guys, let's just continue with the lit room section first, we just put the photo, then let's crop the photo right away, guys, in the crop menu here. Okay, I want to crop it so that the photo doesn't send to the right and left guys. The photo is straight. We just click checklist. Okay, Then we continue on to the lighting menu. Guys, in the lighting menu, we set the exposure to plus 47 guys. Okay, for the contrast here, I'll reduce it to -13 For the highlight here, I make left the line to -100 And for the shadows here, I'll increase it to plus 37. Okay. Then for the light here, I increase it again to plus 65. Then for the blacks here, I'll reduce it to -44 guys. Okay, if the lighting menu is already on, let's just move on to the color menu. Well, for the color menu, I went straight to the color mix guys in the section, we go to the color mix, then we go to red first. For the satration, I'll reduce it to -24 guys. For the orange color here, I'll also reduce the satration to -31 Then for the yellow color here, I'll also reduce the saturation to -38 guys. Okay, let's move on to green. Incidentally, because there is no green color here, I don't set it at all. Okay guys, then for the turquoise color here, I just reduce the saturation to the left line or -100 guys for the saturation setting guys. Okay, then for the blue color here, I reduce the saturation to -43 Okay, Then for the purple color here, I'll also reduce the saturation to -90 Well for the pink color, I also reduce the saturation to -100 because there is no pink here. Okay, we can click done. Right away, we go to the effect menu. While in the effect menu I'll add the texture up to plus 100. For the clarity, I keep it at zero. I add the dehaze up two plus 46. Then for the gett here I'll reduce it to -29 guys. Okay, for the midpoint I'll change it to number two. Okay, for the roundness here, I'll add up to plus eight guys. Okay, then for the feather here, I'll change it to 100. Okay guys, we're done in the Evac menu. Now we go to the details menu, guys. Well, in the details menu here, I want to increase the sharpening of this photo. I upgraded to 130. Okay, then for the masking here, I'll also change it to 93. Then to reduce the sharpness here, I'll use noise reduction here. I'll add it to 62 for the noise reduction. Okay guys, well, if you're done, actually the editing process for this levitation photo is done. Okay guys, it's already good. It's different from the raw picture. This is the before and this is the after guys. Well, it's really cool, right? Well, but I want to add a little using the masking menu. Well guys, for those of you who haven't subscribed to adublite room, you can just save the photos because this is actually finished guys. But I want to add the masking menu. For those of you who may subscribe to adublite room. Well, we click on the masking, then here I want to select the smoke section guys. If it's done, I go straight to the lighting menu for the section that we selected. Guys, let's reduce the highlights because the highlight is really bright, right guys, It's too much. Then for the color menu in this color, I want to reduce the satration to -20 Okay, then for the effect menu, I'll add here the texture up to plus three. Okay, if it's done we can immediately click checklist here. Okay then guys, we'll use the masking, whose name is Elex? Subject guys, this ex object is an auto masking from adubiltroom which immediately selects the main part of your photos. Well, this is our main part. Let's get straight to the point in the light part. I'll reduce the highlight because the highlight is really too bad. So I'll reduce it two -48 Then for the shadows here, I'll increase it two plus 33. Okay, then we'll move to the Details menu. Well, in the Details menu, I want the sharpness to be sharper than before. I added the sharpness up to plus 100 for the masking area. We just click on the checklist. Well guys, here I will add more masking using Select Subject. Guys, here it has been selected in our main object section. Well, but here there is a menu whose name is inferred. I want to select on the outside of our main object. Well, here guys, I'll also delete it first using a brush in the area, which I really don't want to select. Okay guys, if you've deleted it, well, the red ones are what I want to change guys. What I want to select, therefore, I'll go straight to the lighting. Then I'm going to lower the shadows guys so that they are darker. Okay guys, I'll reduce it to -20 Then I'm going to the color menu. Guys, in the color menu, I'll change the saturation to -58 so that the colors other than our object are not too striking. The striking color is only in the main object of our photo. That's it guys. Okay, if it's done, we can immediately click the checklist. While here guys, I want to add another Select object from the masking menu. Then guys, I'll go to the effect menu. Then I'll add the texture so that the photo of our main object looks more textured. Guys, we can immediately click the checklist. The guys here, I want to make a selection on the area. Guys, use the brush tool. Okay, here I'll go to the lighting menu. In the shadows guys, I'll add it to the right or plus 100. Then we go to the effect menu. In the effect menu, I'll add the texture up to plus forty's. Then for the clarity, I'll reduce it to minus three. If it's done, we can just click the checklist for guys here I also want to add masking to the biscuits guys. The biscuit we selected earlier using pigs art. Okay guys, for the lighting menu, we'll change the highlight to minus eight. Then for the color menu, I'll reduce the saturation just a little to minus eight. Then for the effect menu, I'll reduce the texture to -18 Then for the Cl, I'll also reduce it to -60 70 here. I'll also add another brush in the area guys. Okay, if it's done for the brush, let's go to the effect menu. Then we'll reduce the texture guys just in the area and we'll also reduce the clarity. Okay, if it's done we can immediately click the checklist. Well, the most important thing about our photo is the smoke guys in this photo. Well, we'll select the smoke using the brush tool. Okay guys, if it's done we can go straight to the effect menu. In the effect menu, I'll increase the texture with the smoke. Then for the clarity I'll also add up two plus 18. Then for the hays, I'll add up two plus 20 guys. Okay, if it's done we can immediately click the checklist. Then guys, here I'll also add the masking using the linear gradient to the top area. Guys, we'll select it if it's selected. Like this guys, I want to change the light menu area in the area that we've selected in the exposure. I'll increase it two plus 50 so it's not too dark guys. Okay then guys, I'll add more masking to this biscuit area. Using the brush tool, I want to reduce the contrast on the image that we've selected in the biscuits. I'll add the contrast up to minus Ts guys. Well guys, if you're done we can immediately click the checklist. Then we'll add another area that we are masking in the section Guys, we mask first in the area. Again guys, I want to reduce the effect again. That is I reduce the texture to left a line and I also make the clarity left a line guys. Okay, so that it doesn't break too much guys. Okay, if it's done we click the checklist, then we immediately click on the Details Menu. In the Details menu, I'll reduce the noise guys to -30 Then for the sharpness, I'll also reduce it to -50 guys. Okay, if it's done we can immediately click the checklist for the masking area. Then guys, I'll also add more masking to the select Subject. Okay, then in the Details menu, I want to increase the sharpness up to plus 100. Okay, then we click Check List. Then we add more for the area we want to mask using the brush tool in the biscuit area guys. Okay, then we'll add the light. We'll add the exposure up to plus 40. Okay, so that our biscuits are brighter. Okay, If it's done, we can immediately click the checklist. Then the editing process for this photo is finished, guys. This is the before and this is the after. Of course, the image is getting better and the color is friendly, it becomes centered in the section Guys, in our main area. Yes. Okay. If it's done, we can immediately click the share icon above the guys, you can directly export to camera rule. Well, if you're done then your photo is already stored in your gallery guys. Okay guys, that's the editing section for this menu. We'll meet again in the next editing section. Thank you. 12. ECO23 C01 Third Food – Choose the right props & Compose Your Shot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And in this section we will create a beautiful picture like this. Okay? Have you ever felt that you have already put things in your background but it doesn't look pleasing in your eye. Okay. It happens every time while I'm doing the photo shoot until I found that simple technique like counting how many levels you have. So it is breathing simple. I already explained before about leveling, but this time around, I will show you while practicing composing this frame right here. Okay, So as I explained before, one important question while you're setting your background is sometimes you have to count how many level below or above your product, okay? So like this one, actually this product has one level, but if you put something on the top of your background, then it has two levels. Okay, maybe you can change it with the spoon and another garnish. It adds more levels. The more levels you have on your main subject, the more focus people will be on your main subject. So I tried to as many levels as possible for my main subject here. Okay, so there's two levels here. And then below this product, I will put wooden board like this. This is the first level, and then this is the second level, okay? Okay. And then this is the product and this is the third and fourth leveled, okay? Yep. Yes. This is how I add more levels in our picture. And then you also have choice with your ingredients. So domains have up here is like this, but there's also strategy, how to place your ingredients, Okay? So while placing the ingredients, I usually also give the variation where I put these ingredients for this one, I put this one in the top and then I put another crumbs on the levels below it. So I put the same ingredients in the different levels like this, this one on the below, this one on the background, okay? Like this here. Okay, So if you place your ingredients in different levels, it also gives variation in your viewer. Okay? Yeah, and then I also put shot glass here and also the glass here. Yep. How cake? So this is how we set our frame here. Doesn't have to be so many things. But sometime you just have to be strategic leap where you put your ingredients. Sometimes I bought many things in different level to make it more natural and more pleasing to the eye. Okay? Yes. So that's how I set the frame. It is predictable. And then I will see you in the next section. I will show you how we set the lighting for this one. Okay. I'll see you in the next section. 13. ECO23 C02 Third Food – Lighting Setting & Photoshoot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And this section, I will show you how we set the lighting. And then maybe you have a question like why we set the light thing just the same as before, actually, to create a beautiful food photography is not that complex for someone. Maybe they thought that who create a beautiful picture, the lighting should be more than one and the position should be changed. And then also, like there's so many tools, the fact is it's not always like that. Okay. The Best Picture, in my opinion, is how you combine the pools. You have, the ingredients you have in your home with the skill you have. Today you learn the skill. And then I suggest to you to keep the settings simple how k, and then this time I used the Khafre in the softbox because the one that we want to shoot is this jar. And then if I don't use the Kafir, then you have to know that the source of the liking is only these dots. It will become a dots here because the light bulb is like this. Yeah, this size. And if I don't use the cover, it will become a line here. Okay. Or just dots reflection in this glass. I don't really like it. So while we cover the softbox, the source of the light pink become this square. This square, okay? So it will create a nice square reflection in this glass. That's why I used the comfort of the softbox this time. Okay. And then like before, I also cover the background here, just like before, to make sure that this area is become darker then later on while we add the smoke, it will be very visible. Okay, So that's how we said that likely. And then let's do the Photoshop. 14. ECO23 C03 Third Food – Photo Preview: Guys, we have already done the photo shoot and then I'm so excited to show you those out. Okay, here you go. Okay. That is the raw picture. And then, okay, this is the edited version. Sometimes while you're doing the Photoshop using smartphone, it is very easy to feel frustrated if you get the picture like the robots are that we have like this, okay? But you have to realize that in the editing section there's always a way to increase the focus of our object. Let's focus on the edited version. And then as you can see that in the edited version, I purposefully only set the key color and some of the color. And then I make the surrounding areas, especially for the woods and another area becomes less saturated. Okay. Why actually sometimes when we want to increase the intensity or increase the focus on our picture, it's not always increasing the saturation, but it's also important to decrease the saturation on the unimportant objects. In this picture, I assumed that the one that I don't really want to expose the wooden and another area. So I brought the surrounding and decrease the saturation. I don't increase the saturation of the object at all. But since we decrease the saturation of the surrounding, then the picture automatically look more focus. I will show you step-by-step how we create this one. And then I'll see you in the editing section. 15. ECO23 C04 Third Food - Editing Session: Okay, hello everyone. So we've entered the third guys. This time the foot is tea with smoke. Well, now we're going to the menu called lighting guys, so we can set it up guys. Okay, we immediately set this in the lighting menu. First we go to the curve section guys. As usual in the curve section, we have to give three dots. First guys, 12.3 guys. Okay, first of all, I'll reduce the shadows in the shadow section. Then in the mid tone section, I'll just add a little guys, then for the highlights here, I'll take it down guys, it's not too bright and flashy. Okay guys, for the curve, it's more or less like this guys. We immediately click Done here. Okay, let's go straight to the lighting menu. We set the exposure guys in the exposure. We add up to 30 for the contrast here. I'll reduce guys around -30 Okay guys. Okay, for the highlights here, I'll reduce it to -75 guys. Okay, then let's move on to the bottom. At the bottom, I'm going to set the shadows to zero. Then for the whites here, I'll add guys up to plus 50 guys. Okay, let's move on to the blacks here. I'll reduce the blacks to -15 Okay, then guy here for the lighting menu, it's done. We just go straight to the color menu, guys. Well, in the color menu, I'll reduce the ten to minus seven. Then for the temperature here, I'll add it to plus two. Okay, just a little guy. We go straight to the color mix section guys. In the color mix for the red color here, I'll increase the hue to plus ten. Minus two for the saturation guys. Okay, let's move on to the orange color here. I made minus two for the hue, then for the saturation here, I made plus 15. Okay, then let's continue guys in yellow. In the yellow color, I'll reduce the hue to -30 Then for the saturation here, I'll add it to plus 20 guys because there is a yellow part here, guys. Next for the green color here, I'll add the hue to plus 15. Then for the saturation here, I'll add it to plus 11. I don't set the lumon ends. Then we move on to the turquoise color. Here in turquoise color, I'll add the hue to plus 20. Then for the saturation, I'll add it to plus ten. Okay, I don't adjust the lumin ends. Then in the blue color guys, I'll add plus three for the U. Then for the saturation, I'll add it to plus ten. Okay, then we continue with the purple color guys. In the purple color, I'll make the saturation left a line or -100 so that the purple color doesn't interfere with our main object here guys. Okay guys, for the purple color is just like that. Then we move on to the pink color. In the pink color, MS, the purple color, we change the saturation to -100 guys so that the pink color doesn't disturb our main object area too much guys. If it's done, we can immediately click Done. Okay, for the color menu. It's finished guys. Then we go to the Effx menu. Well, in the Effx menu I'll add the texture. Up to plus thir guys. Okay, let's move to the clarity. I'll add the clarity to plus six, then for the Hayes it's the same. I'll add it to plus six. Then for the Fete, well, for the Fnet, it's important. Okay guys. We'll add it so that the mood of our photo becomes real and also focuses on our main object area. We're going to reduce the Fett down to -69 guys here. Okay, here we have something called the midpoint. Well in the midpoint I'll change it to 40 guys. Then for the roundness here, I'll add it to plus 35 guys. Then for the feather here, feather is the distance between the borders that we selected and those that we didn't select. Well, the bigger the feather, the more real and natural the one selected in the fine will be guys. Okay guys, in the effect menu, we're done. Then we move to the optics menu. In the optics menu here we'll add remove chromatic aberration guys. Okay, then actually the settings have been finished guys for this photo because our photo have become better than the raw photo. This is the before and this is the after guys. It looks more real. The smoke is also more visible guys, it comes out more, it's more pop out and it's also more focused on our main foot guys in this area. Okay, this is the before and also this is the after. But guys here, I'll add several options for using the masking guys. Well, for the masking menu, as usual, I'll add a radial gradient. Here, I'm going to mean a radial gradient in our main object. First, we set the position in such a way. Then for the lighting, we'll change it guys, in the selection area, guys. Okay, first of all, in the lighting menu, I'll add the exposure guys here. It's around plus 39. Okay, for the contrast here, I'll reduce it to -20 Then for the high light, I'll reduce it to -30 Then for the shadows here, I'll add more or less to plus 50. Then guys, for the whites here, I'll add it to plus ten. Then for the blacks here, I'll reduce to minus ten. Okay guys, next here we move to the Effx menu. Well, in the Efax menu, I'll add the texture so that the texture of our main foot looks more prominent. Guys, we'll just add it to plus ten. Then in the Details menu, we'll reduce the noise to -20 guys. Okay, we can immediately click the checklist guys here because it's finished. Then here I'll add more guys, the area that I want to select guys. But the difference is with the previous one here, I can just copy it guys. Here it's a selection from our first masking. We can directly duplicate guys. Click Duplicate here. While the scene will automatically be copy guys into two parts. Well here this time for the selection, I'll click the inferred mask so that the selection is only on the outside. Guys, You can arrange a little bit guys. Okay, well here I really want to select only on the outside. Okay. I can arrange it here so that the selected ones are only on the outside of our food Guys, if it's done because the masking is the masking that we duplicate it, we can just edit the lighting to reset. Okay, we reset. We click two times. Guys here. Okay guys, if you're done we can immediately checklist first. Then we select again in the part that we've masked in the right section. We'll change it in the color menu. I'll reduce the saturation guys to -100 so that the colors on the edges will disappear guys. Okay, okay, so the color is only focused on the center of our main object. Then we can immediately click the checklist. Then here I'll add the details menu to guys in the noise section. Here, I'll reduce it to -100 Okay, let's go straight to checklist then guys here I'll add another radial gradient for our area in the section, our main object. We'll continue to set the feather guys. I'll set it here. Okay, if it's selected in the main part of the photo. This time I'll go to the lighting menu. In the lighting menu, I will change the exposure to plus 15. Then later for the contrast here, I will reduce it to -15 guys. Then for the highlight here, I'll make it 20. Then for the shadows here, I'll add up two plus 35 guys, if you've changed the shadows here, we go to the white section. Well, in the white section I'll add up two plus seven guys. Then in the black section, we reduce it to minus two. Just a little guys. Okay, if you're done, you can just review it right away. This is the before and this is the after. You can see right away what is missing from this photo. Well, here I see this part. It's a bit bright, so I'm going to masking it using brush to Then we select, just in this section guys. Okay, if the selection isn't net, you can just delete it. Then tidy it up again. Okay. Then guys, here I'm going to change the exposure to -20 Then for the highlights here, I'll just reduce it to minus seven. Okay, this is before, and this is after. Then you can immediately review it again. Well, here I have two objects guys. First this, then this one. This blue one, it's still too dark guys, in my opinion. I'm going to make a selection in this section to make it brighter. How? It's easy, guys, we just use the radial gradient. We select only this section guys. Okay, let's tidy it up. Okay guys, if you're done, you can just set the exposure in the Latin menu to plus 57 right away guys. Okay, then I don't set the contrast, but for the highlights here, I'll add up to plus 30 guys. Then for the shadows here, I'll also add up to plus 50. Okay guys, if you're done, we can immediately click the checklist. It's a bit better, more visible as if it's not as dark as before. Well, the last one guys will brush the smoke. The most important thing in this photo is the smoke. Therefore I'll mask it using a brush on just the smoke guys. Okay guys, if it's been selected and it's not neat, you can just delete the part that you really don't want to be selected. Okay guys, if you're done I'll set it here in the lighting menu. In the lighting menu, I'll add the exposure to plus 19. Then I don't set the contrast, but I'll reduce the highlight here to -40 guys. It's not too bright guys on the smoke part and you cannot even see the texture of the smoke. I'll reduce the high light. Then for the shadows here, I'll add up to plus 18. Then for the whites here, I will add it to plus ten. Then for the color menu here on the color menu, I'll reduce the saturation to -100 Why? So that the smoke is colored less and also only colored like normal smoke guys. Then finally guys here I'll add a linear gradient to the JS guys so that it's more impressive that in this photo it is only focused on our main object. Okay, let's set it up in this section, guys. Okay, next we'll set it in the exposure menu. In the lighting menu, I'll reduce the exposure to minus F. Okay, then I'll add the Blacks as well. Here are, reduce the Blacks down to -20 Okay guys, if you have set the Blacks in the masking section, it will look like this. Guys. This is, this is a, well, this photo is getting better and better because when we see this photo, our eyes will automatically only focus on our main object, which is the T and also the smoke. The smoke also becomes more textured and visible than raw picture guys, this is the picture we want, guys. Okay, if you're done guys, you can just click immediately, then your photo will be immediately to your gallery. Well, that's all for the editing section. Thank you for watching it to the end. See you at the next meal. Thank you guys. 16. ECO23 D01 Fourth Food – Choose the right props & Compose Your Shot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. In this section, we will create a beautiful picture like this. Okay, so the main subject here is the ice cream here. So this composition, we use the rule of odds. We use the odd number of items. This is three ice cream to make it looks more pleasing, instead of like you use a for ice cream or six ice cream, I use the odd number for my main subject and then actually the sad things is previous involved. Okay. I asked you to look at the picture once again, if you look at this picture, shows a little bit elegant actually to create the elegant hype of picture like this, you don't need to use so many ingredients. So actually, if you look at the ingredients we use in this picture, actually this is pretty simple. I'm sure that you also have them in your home. Just need a glass here, but the ice cream and then the ice cone, that's all for the ingredients. We make the icon cross like this, and also the small crumble or cone. Also we put on the background, and then also we use the spoon here. Okay? I usually use the smartphone like this because the small spoon makes your food larger. Okay, I rarely use the large wound in my photo shoot because usually human can imagine the size of spoon. So if I put the large bone in my background here, it will make my product looks smaller. Okay. That's why I always came first the small spoon like this, okay, this is how we compose the picture here. And then also if you need the dark background, but once you make the background looks more elegant, There's a hat for you. Instead of just using this kind of background. This is the classic background, but on the top, this drastic vagrant when we use the glass like this, okay, actually this is a glass, a piece of glass here. It's quite large, but you don't have to buy this large glass. 60 centimeter is enough. Just put the glass on the top of this background. Actually, it will make the background looks more elegant. Okay, I suggest to you to try this one because it is very interesting. And then also this class will make the reflection of our object. Our object here, we'll have nice reflection below. And also while we use dry ice smoke here, it will also reflect on the background. So it will look a real nice, okay? So yeah, this is how we plan the frame year. And then I will see you in the next section, I will show you how we create a beautiful icon for this one. Okay, see you in the next section. 17. ECO23 D02 Fourth Food – Lighting Setting & Photoshoot: Okay guys, Welcome to this section. And in this section, I will explain to you how we set the lighting for this one. Okay. Disliked. It is quite unique, but before I explain the likely position, you have to know the reason behind. Okay. The reason behind why we sent more complex lighting is because it is not easy to take the dark chocolate in the black background. It is not that easy if you don't use any lighting technique. Okay, so our goals is we want to separate between the chocolate and the background. Okay? We want to separate. The technique is we use the backlight position, okay? This is the position if the lighting is in the same horizon, I push the lighting backward about 15 centimeter here. Okay. So the lighting now is from the left corner to here, okay? Yep. Since we are using the softbox, the lightning is very straight to here. That's why the lighting won't come to this area. And then to make sure that there's no lighting to come to this area, we also block the light pink, but it is very important to set it like this because it will make the backlight effect so it will separate from the background. If you said the lighting here, there will be so many Lighting come to this area as you can see that if I set the lighting here, you can see the lighting also hit the background and it will make the background brighter, and it will also make this one brighter. So if your subject and the background is at the same brightest level or the nearest same butterfly fall, then your chocolate won't be that stand out. Okay, So it is very important to set it like this. Just makes sure that the lighting hits directly to our ice cream here, but the lighting doesn't come through this area. Okay. It's just the same as that one. And then the distance between our liking here should the subject here is about 50 centimeter, and then they have the same hate our k. And then this time, I want to make the product looks taller. Okay, so I set my camera backwards like this. Okay, this is the camera here. I said the camera backward because if you set the camera lower than your product, it will make your product looks taller and looks more dominant, okay? Yeah. And then as usual, I've zoomed into two times. Yes. This is how the angle will be. And then later on, I will ask my assistant to set the dry ice, dry ice in the back of our product here. And one dry ice will be helped by my assistant. And then another tapes. It takes a lot of picture. Okay. You already got this. Okay. And then make sure that you use hot water, especially for the one that you hold, because you will need so many more if you want to make it look more dramatic, okay? Because I have to hold the product higher than the smoke will not be very feasible in there below. So you will need hot water to make sure the mall come up more. Okay? Yes, this is how I plan the lighting and plan the shop, then let's do it. 18. ECO23 D03 Fourth Food – Photo Preview: Hey guys, We have already do the photo shoot. And then I will show in the picture, here you go. How k, and then here's the comparison between before and after the editing. If you see it close up like, okay, this is the edited version. And then let's look at closer. If you can see that there's a separation between the chocolate and the background. This is Back off the backlight thing and also the editing. Okay? Then if you look at the row vector here, okay, this is the raw beaker. And then while you're doing the photo shoot, most of the time, you will see that the dark area won't be very dark. Okay. It looks like gray or something, but the one that you have to make sure. At least the chocolate and the beggar is separated. You can make the gray area here become the dark later in the editing section, okay, to make it more dramatic. And then I will show you step-by-step how to do it. And I will see you in the editing section. 19. ECO23 D04 - Fourth Food - Editing Session: Okay, hello guys. Well, now we've entered the last dish guys for the editing section. Well, earlier we had fun playing the Smokes. Now let's get into the editing guys. Okay, let's go straight to the lighting menu, then to the Curve menu. Then we'll make three dots. First guys, then here I'm going to change the shadows. I'm turning them down a little. Then for the highlight, I'll increase it a little. Then for the midtone, I'll lower it a little. Okay, like this. We just click done. Then we'll set the exposure and we'll add it to plus 18. Then for the contrast here, I'll reduce it to -18 Then for the high light here, I'll reduce it to -70 Then for the whites here, I'll add it to plus 30. Then guys, for the blacks here, I'll reduce it to -21 guys. Okay, let's go straight to the color menu. Guys in the color menu, I'll change the temperature to plus three. Then for the tenth here, I'll reduce it to minus one guys. We go straight to the grading menu Guys, we can set the shadows to -24 on luminens. Guys, that is in the section guys, you can just check these are the shadows. Then we'll change the luminends, the shadows to -20 Then guys we slide, we go to the tons menu. Guys in the ones menu, you can immediately set the luminends at -16 Okay, let's go straight to the highlight menu. Well, this is the highlight. We set the luminance up to plus 23 guys. Okay, if you're done you can immediately click Done. Then guys, let's just go straight to the color mixed menu. Guys, in the color mixed menu, what I'll change is the orange color setting. I'll change the hue to minus five. Then for the saturation here, I'll add it to plus 20. Then for the green color, I'll reduce the saturation to -100 Then for the turquoise color here, I'll also reduce the saturation to -100 Then for the blue color, it's the same here. I'll also reduce the saturation to -100 In the purple menu here, I'll reduce the saturation to -63 Okay guys, let's go straight to the ping menu. In the ping menu, I'll reduce the saturation to -52 guys. Okay, if you're done guys, you can immediately click done here. The Latin menu is finished, the color menu is finished. We'll enter the effect menu guys. In the effect menu, I'll change the texture to plus 30. We continue to the details menu guys for the sharpening, I'll add 20 to this photo. Then we'll go to the optics menu. Then we click Remove Chromatic Aberration. Then guys, actually this photo is finished guys, just by editing these five menu, actually your photos have changed for the better guys. This is the before and this is the after guys. Well guys, but here I want to add the masking guys. Well, in the masking menu, I'll add a radial gradient. Then I selected the main menu, the ice cream guys. I'm going to the lighting menu. Then I'll change the highlight to -11 Then the shadows here, I'll add to plus 20. Okay guys, let's move on to the Blacks. Well on the Blacks, I'll reduce it to -11 Then we go to the effect menu. Well, in the effect menu I'll add the texture. Up to plus 40 guys. Well, if you're done guys, you can immediately click the checklist. Then you can immediately add another radial gradient here. However, here I'll use infrared because I want to select the outer area from what we selected before. Guys, I want to select in the section guys in the outer area of our main object. Well, here I'll change the lighting menu for the contrast. I'll increase it to plus 50 guys. Then for the shadows here, I'll add it to -45 Then for the blacks here, I'll reduce it to -13 Then we go to the Effx menu. In the Effx menu, I'll reduce the texture to -41 Okay then guys, here I'll select another area which is the smoke part guys, because the smoke in the photo is the most important extra Guys, I'll select the smoke part. Okay guys, if you're done you can go directly to the lighting menu. Then we'll change the highlight to -18 Then I'll increase the whites up to minus seven, guys. It's brighter. Okay guys, Then we go to the effects menu. Then we'll add the texture guys. Okay, I'll add the texture up to plus 19 here. If we can see here, there are some backgrounds that are still hollow or are still translucent guys. Well, I want to change this background to make it blacker and darker too, so that the eyes that see this photo will immediately focus on the ice cream guys. Therefore, I'll select the background using the brush tool. Okay guys, if you're done you can go straight to the lighting menu. Then I'll reduce the exposure to -1.26 Then for the high light, I'll reduce it to the left align. Then for the shadow section here, I'll reduce it to -50 guys, the background of the photo will be darker. Well guys, if indeed your main object is selected like this, you can just delete it immediately using the eraser guys. Okay? Yes, like this, your objects won't be disturbed anymore. If it's done, then the editing process for this photo is finished, guys. This is the before and this is the after guys. Well, the photos are more focused on the ice cream and it's also better guys for the smoke. Well, if you're done guys, you can just click the share logo above the guys. You can just click export to camera roll. The photo will be stored in your gallery guys. Well that's it for the editing section this time guys. Thank you for following this editing tutorial to the end. See you next time. Thank you guys. 20. ECO23 Closing of Smoke Smartphone Food Photography: 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 wrong. 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 min of my photo shoot, maybe like 2025 picture. I pay for the first 15 min. Most of the time I delete those pictures because most of the time I use pen until 15 minute to trial and error. Okay. So when you are doing your practice, you don't have to be frustrated before your first 1 h, your first two hour. You don't have to feel frustrated because the enjoyment of this empire 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 what? To compare each of those picture. And finally, you take 2010 until 20 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. Bye bye.