FS700 Food shoot advice?

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firehawk

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Hi guys. Looking for advice shooting a table with some food on it (full turkey, mashed potatoes, etc). There will be a food stylist to prepare the food.
I plan on using the FS700R on a Jib to get some slow moving shots. Not sure yet if there will be much space (like part of a room) behind the table of food or if it will be against a wall.
I have 3 lenses (Sony 50mm f/1.8, Sony 35mm f/1.8 and Sony 28-105mm f/4) which all have AF.
Also plan on shooting at 1080 60P in case I want to slow it down some, which means internal recording and not recording to my Ninja Blade because it cannot do 1080 60P.
To keep things cool I was thinking of using various adjustable LED lights I have which can vary from tungsten to daylight color and guard against hard shadows.
Do you recommend daylight of tungsten balanced?
Any thoughts?
 
Depends on available light sources if there are any, but I'd go tungsten. Also, I'm not sure I'd go 60fps, especially since the 700 excells at slo-mo, if it's a really a shoot with a stylist etc, get them to repeat an action or pick your spots for slo-mo. 60fps looks like handy-cam soap-opera effect imo. And this is all opinion, it's just how I'd tackle it. I'd grab a macro lens and a few primes. I have the 7Q so I'd shoot either raw-UHD pro-res or Raw-1080prores. I'd make the light as soft as I possibly could and and make a point to get a lot of extreme close-ups, CU's, and medium's, and possibly a few wides. If someone were to cut a slice of meat I'd shoot that in slo-motion and get them to hold when I'm done and switch back to 24/30fps depending on the final deliverable. I'd shoot slog2 and use film convert after if I were doing the post.

Also looking at your lense, I'd probably be on the 50 the most especially if the background is drab.

Let us know how it went and what challenges you encountered.

Cheers,

Fraser
 
I just did a food shoot myself, and look like I'll be doing a bunch more in 2017 - very small gigs, but kind of fun.

This is all shot on my fs700 + odyssey 7Q and almost embarassed 100% my 24-70 makinon zoom w/ macro I bought used (FD mount) for $25 CAD!


hopefully that works - had 26k views already on the client's site!
 
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thank you kind sir. I didn't realize I double posted, since for some reason on my ipad I could see your video but not mine...weird.

I finished another one I'll post once my client has released it. The next one is a Sushi Burrito and although the finished product isn't as sexy looking as the burger - man was it good. Shooting this food stuff is pretty fun, and I'm sure over the next couple of months I'll pack on a few extra pounds doing this!
 

This is the second one I did and I have to say it tasted amazing. I don't think I had as strong of a "money shot" but the overall flow might be stronger.
I learned that I'm really going to be selective with the slow motion - because of the fps, the diva flo 4 bank I'm using isn't strong enough to get the exposure where it needs to be. I find I'm getting too much digital noise, so unless it's outside or I acquire a much stronger light that I can still make soft - I'll hold off if I can resist it. Anyone know if my luck would be better to NOT shoot S-log? I hate digital cameras and the whole "iso" thing. I learned (briefly) first on film - ASA, ISO means grain sensitivity to me and the thought of 2000 iso makes no sense, they should have used a different acronym imo.

Cheers - anyone else shooting food it would be cool to see your stuff too!
 

another one.

This one was pretty tasty thanks to the spicy notes and savory waffle. quite a while back I went to rosco's in LA and was a bit disappointed because it was just all one flavour it seemed like - this I was pleasantly surprised. Same everything in terms of gear/technique although it's clearly superior to the others technically. One thing I did was take off the diaper on my kino for the slo mo to get more light, and there were also quite a lot of windows.
 
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