ASSIGNMENT TWENTY TWO: HOT HOT HOT!
This is a restaurant menu cover and the client wants it to be “HOT HOT HOT” – also the tag line of his restaurant. The food is Tex-Mex and Thai combined in exciting new dishes that are heavy on spice, and a bit hot.
The menu is a portrait configuration and in full color.
You have the option to whether you want to shoot food, product, or people – but the idea is that you make the shot you want.
Ideas:
Spicy Chili / Shrimp
Cooks ‘on fire’
Patrons showing ‘the heat’
TexMex dishes with chopsticks
A Cambodian “Cowboy”
A mixture of Cambodian Asian style food and traditional TexMex
Cultural Icons showing the blend
Firefighting gear and food
Make this a fun, slightly whimsical cover shot.
Lighting could include some smoke or ‘smoky’ atmosphere. Use backlight to enhance the smoke if needed.
If you are wondering about how other photographers have shot spicy food… well… here you go.
This is a portfolio shot… make it count. Please sketch ideas, plan the shoot, and execute with precision.
Please be prepared to tell me how much you would have billed for this shot.
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Do not think you must buy these actions to do this kind of retouching. Everything the actions do you can do manually.
