My general rule is to be authentic, that is we eat the food after the shoot. There is no hair spray or any other weird food tricks going on here.
So this is the hero shot:
This is what it looks like behind the camera.
You'll notice the camera is atteched to a glide, this is because every shoot we do these days we do three things:
1. Video pan - for the YouTube hero shot.
2. Landscape - for the YouTube thumbnail, and social media.
3. Portrait - for the book (yes we now have a Rie's Kitchen book).
The light is coming from the skylight above - natural light is king (use it whenever you can).
Then there are three bounce cards (one is just a folded card - awesome trick that, it stands all by itself).
Then there is professional reflector, on the left - just to help out with the key lighting.
The rear card is actually to block out some of the light falling on the back of the "set", helps darken the bench top.
The configuration of this scene is really just experimentation, with a basic idea in mind.
The set up is generally done with a stand in - because food flattens real quick, and so you generally want to just swap in the hero food at the last minute and shoot. If done right, you can be eating still warm pancakes!
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