Again, zero experience with paid food photography and Fujifilm X100s as my only workhorse camera. When I was doing my research, I haven’t found any real life test of a X100 or a 23(35)mm lens for a food photography, which is now my main motivation why I’m writing this post. Write a blog you wanna read, right? Since the restaurant cooks mainly in italian style, I knew I want honest, rustic&homemade feel to the pictures so for lighting I’ve used one old Profoto PRO-81 head with a 4ft octa from behind (I’ve read that that’s the easiest way to make food look shiny&moist) with a white foamboard reflector as a front-fill and a raw wood planks as a background. (The restaurant doesn’t have any good backgrounds or window light so that’s why I went this way)…..

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