6/52: Food

I'm loving these Weekly Photo Challenges. I've made it my goal to create shoots out of these photos that I could eventually put into my portfolio along with getting experience in photography and art direction--all at the same time!

Similar to last week, I made an inspiration board to help figure out what kind of mood and setting I'd like to go with for Food. I prepared these things on the weekday so I can plan the shoot during natural light hours on Saturday.

Luckily, I was able to borrow a marble cutting board from work that was A LOT of fun to work with. I can see so much potential with it!

I had a 7 day free trial with Lynda.com so I decided to make full use of it and ended up watching a course on Food Photography! Bill Robbins showed us his essential food photography kit which included tweezers!! So I decided to try it out...and you see the clusters of small chili seeds there? Those were meticulously placed there with my tweezers!

My original intention was to go with a more random and naturally styled shoot. However, I didn't like the composition nor did I find it compelling enough to make it the final image. So I went with something more organized...

Calla Lilies: Flowers and Light

I picked these up because, oh man, the colors together were so gorgeous.

Despite their short "shelf" life, and the kombucha looking stems in water, they're still a top choice for TWO days.



I'm glad I did this session the day before they started looking not so fresh...

Rangoli & Current Thoughts On Creativity

Current thoughts on creativity vary from

• having an impulse to create something and can't hold it in any longer
• loving the iteration process
• not sticking to the original idea ...it's never the best idea anyway...maybe.

So it only makes sense that when my mom started applying Rangoli for Diwali last year, I wanted to capture the moment where the expert (my mom) and the novice (me!) make a piece together:

Rangoli from Tana Gandhi on Vimeo.

India Trip Part 2: Modes of Transportation

My experiences traveling to India are always a mix of nostalgia and appreciation all wrapped in a giant emotional thing we call feelings.

During my India trip, my family and I used the rickshaw a lot despite having our own car. It was amazing because I was able to get shots like the ones posted below!

Compare a van vs. a rickshaw:
You can see everything in a van that you can in a rickshaw but you wouldn't feel the essence of being present in a city as you would in the latter.

 

 All photos taken with the Canon G15 
India Trip - Part 1

5/52: Yellow

Color themed challenges are so exciting! You can do so much and with so little! This week I used it as another excuse to play with flowers.

Regained my close to never activity on Pinterest  by creating an inspiration board for flower shots that ultimately helped me come up with the ones below:



And then this:

Instaxes for this week: