fandomhigh | Photography; Thursday, First Period [02/10].

"Hey, guys!" Prompto never really had any shortage of a sort of nervous energy around his person at any given time, but that Thursday, it did seem a little amped up as he greeted them standing at the front of the classroom instead of sitting on the desk as usual because sitting still was just shy of impossible right now. Besides, there was clearly a few boxes of pastries sitting on the desk in his stead, anyway. "And welcome back! I hope you had a few good opportunities to gets some practice on your portrait shots, especially because we're going to start class with showing off your work, and then we're going to get into today's lesson, and I hope you all had breakfast before you came in, because this one?" He chuckled a little. "Is definitely going to make you hungry. But first! Portraits! Who wants to go first?"

And once everyone had a chance to show off their pictures, it was time to get started on the next lesson.

"Now," he started, "with the holiday coming up, a lot of people probably have their minds on some real fancy food," a faint grin, because he was maybe one of those people, yes, and said fancy food might be the meaning behind his particular energy today, "which means it's probably a great time to talk about food photography, which is a skill that's not only useful to boost up your social media likes, but also a really interesting career path in photography to consider if you're taking this with a potential future in the field in mind. Now, I'm also friends with a guy who's a pretty good chef, too, so I apologize if they get your appetite going, but, hey," he cracked a grin at them and gestured toward the boxes on the desk, "that's why I brought doughnuts."

A pause.

"Well, also, so we'd have some food to photograph in a little bit for practice, but they're totally also for eating. Now, let's get into it. Your key componants in a sweet food photography shot are going to be angle, composition, and setting..."

And with that, he turned his attention to the first example in a long line of many to highlight his point as he went through a few of the essential tips and suggestions to really make those food photos pop for more than just your Instagram!

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Food time!

Sakaki

Kurt Wagner

Alara Kitan

Tahani al-Jamil

Did you manage to get some good portrait shots to share with the class? Show them off here!

And, yes, in case anyone was wondering, Prompto definitely will count photo of pets as portraits!

Boy, was Sakaki glad that portraits of pets did count, because that was literally almost her entire film roll this week. Mostly attempts to get the cats at the shelter, which was already asking for trouble, because not even cats who liked you were likely to sit still long enough for a good portrait. She got a few good ones of the birds and the turtles because they didn't move so fast for her to miss the shot, and the only portraits she managed to get of actual people was a few she'd done of Sidon, one of which was actually really good, and that was mostly by accident, and the others were...well...

It was really hard to get the angles right when your subject was nine feet tall! Sakaki really wondered if that was how Chiyo-chan would feel taking a picture of her sometimes....

Kurt had only managed to get a few portraits last week, so he hoped it was enough to satisfy the homework requirement. That was one of the bad things about being the new kid around... he didn't know a lot of people, well, at least not well enough to feel comfortable asking them to pose for some photos.

Alara had managed to get a few different portraits ... there was that girl who had been in her engineering class last semester after she had ~~handwavily~~ stopped by the library last week and then she had managed to ask one of the new kids this semester to pose for a portrait ... she couldn't pronounce his name but he had been happy to pose. Maybe a little to enthusiastic about posing but she was pretty happy with the how the photos had turned out.

Help yourself to some totally moddable doughnuts and other fine pastries as Prompto goes over his best tips for food photography while scrolling through many, many fine examples of his previous word.

And one example of an odd, misshapen blue cake that he couldn't help adding, especially in the middle of all this otherwise clearly expertly made and plated food, but look at that lighting! The angle! He was very proud of that dumb cake, okay?

There's a few props and other things available to you now that you've got some tips for food photography, so you've got the chance to practice and experiment with whatever pastries and doughnuts are left.

Kurt was having fun with the lesson and had gotten a few good shots, at least he thought so. After playing around with a few of the doughnuts that were available he got some shots and then showed them to Prompto.

There was a simple stack shot, a colorful arrangement shot, and even an attempted macro shot.

"What do you think?" he asked hopefully.

"Oh, wow," Prompto would have been encouraging regardless, but his sounded genuinely impressed after looking over the shots. "Those are really good, Kurt! Great use of and attention to all the colors, especially! Those look almost good enough to eat!"

Yes, he thought that was hilarious.

Yes, it was honestly a miracle that it took him this long to drop that joke.

"It's going to be really cool seeing what you bring to the table," no, that was not intentional or noticed, actually, "for next week, when you push yourself beyond the dono-sphere."

He's definitely carefully arranging two doughnuts, one with an artful bite taken out of it, against each other on a plate that he'll take with a sepia filter to make it extra classy.

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