The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is expanding in both population and size and is already the largest metroplex in the south. With over a million people, it is a huge commercial and cultural hub and Dallas boasts the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. It’s a hopping place and photography plays an important role in the commercial marketing of the arts, museums, sports teams, restaurants, large businesses, small businesses, events, and Fortune 500 companies. If you need a Dallas photographer, look no further.
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You Eat With Your Eyes First
Most people love to eat, and those who can take it or leave it…well…they need to eat. Everybody eats. That is why eating is a great way to spend time with friends and family. Food is an important tradition for most holidays, too: cookouts for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, and buffets or more formal meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The fact is, food excites many people. However, the more important fact when it comes to food photography is you eat with your eyes first.
Food Photography
Because everyone needs to eat, food is a huge market. There are numerous grocery stores, superstores with groceries, restaurants, and fast-food places, but if the food looks bad it is bad for business. That’s where professional food photography comes in. The right photograph of food can make your mouth water, convince you that you are hungry, or help you decide exactly what you are hungry for. There are quite a few things you need to take into account when attempting to capture that “just right” food photograph including:
- Is your food just “big” or is it “full-bodied”?
- Do you have enough color?
- Do the colors complement each other?
- Do they provide contrast?
- Did you capture the different textures of each food?
- Are you using the right lighting? Is it natural lighting? Artificial lighting? Is it dark? Did you create the mood?
- Have you considered the depth?
- Have you considered the angle?
- Do you have a table setting?
- Do you need a table setting?
- Does your table setting highlight the main subject–the food?
Interested In Knowing More?
If you are interested in knowing more about professional food photography, stay tuned for future installments of You Eat With Your Eyes First.
ABOUT YOUR DALLAS, TX, PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER:
Doug Davis has been producing professional, engaging videos and product, food, and lifestyle photography from his Dallas, TX, studio for more than 20 years. D-Squared Studios is located at 4312 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas, 75226. Contact our office at (214) 746-6336 or email Doug at doug.davis@d2studios.net.
Creative Design Photography: A Form Of Art
To take a picture all you really have to do is point the camera and shoot, or you can make it a work of art by considering the angle, lighting, background, color, and more. The latter type of photography is an art form. It requires creativity, vision, skill, and artistic acuity. Creative design photography is a type of photography that is often far more than just pointing a camera and shooting. It is the execution of a client’s idea that may be carried out in unique ways such as using models and/or sculptures. Creative design photography is a form of art.
Lights, Camera, Action!
A photographer often wears many hats especially if they own their own business. Their role can run from taking the pictures to making decisions regarding lighting, sound, and electrical, or they may act as the director, making the final decisions about all aspects of the video or photo shoot. A director has to have artistic vision, be creative, and think outside the box because there are many decisions to be made before they call lights, camera, action!
What Is Lifestyle Photography?
What is lifestyle photography? Simply put, this is a type of shoot where the photographer works to capture a moment in time. These are often important to a business to showcase people enjoying products or so potential clients can see your company’s hard working staff in action. We can create a realistic or possibly even a whimsical look at you or your services.
Introduce Yourself With Videography
So much business is done over the Internet these days. Whether you are an author, jeweler, artist, photographer, or involved in any of a variety of businesses, you most likely have a Facebook page and a website dedicated to your business. This is a wonderful thing. There is one drawback, however. People don’t get to see you, hear you, or get to feel like they know you. That personal connection is not there, but you can get around that by introducing yourself with videography.
The Importance Of Product Photography
Every product needs a photographer. Products don’t sell themselves. People sell products and in order to get the public interested in buying a product, you need to market it. Part of marketing a product is supplying photographs of the product to the public to generate interest. If these photographs are bland and uninteresting will people want to buy your product? No. However, if the product color, shape, texture, or even taste is captured in the photo the public may want to run out and buy it, and there lies the importance of product photography.
Your Dallas Photographer
Every parent seems to bother their older children about photographs. You may hear, “I haven’t had a decent picture of you kids since your senior year,” or “I haven’t had a picture of all of my children together since Christmas of…” Family pictures mean a lot to your parents and if you have children of your own, you know just how much pictures mean. But what about pictures of your parents? Are your parents the type to put their hand in front of the camera every time you try to snap a candid photo? Is there going to come a day when you say, “I wish I had a picture of Mom and Dad together”? Your Dallas photographer can make your wish come true.
What Is Creative Design Photography?
It may seem that all photography is creative to an extent, but some subjects require more creativity. For instance, if you’re taking a scenic picture in nature you are working with natural beauty. The angle, time of day, and use of a particular lens might factor in, but if you are working with objects that don’t particularly possess “natural beauty” like a hanger for instance, the photographer must find the creativity or beauty in the curves, texture, or color of that hanger. He or she may need to add color or texture, a background, distance, or other interesting facets to the photograph. That’s creative design photography.
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Fall Photography
Fall in Texas may be a heck of a lot different than fall in Vermont, Maine, or Upstate New York, but Texas has its own unique beauty. Fall is a favorite time of year for many because the temperatures are cooler, and you get to enjoy the bright orange color of pumpkins, and the reds of the foliage. Fall is also a wonderful time because of Halloween, and the fact that this time of year symbolizes the onset of the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. How, you may wonder, do professional photographers capture the allure and attractiveness of the season? Are there secrets to fall photography?
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