I was shocked out how the professional photo made this cake look. Im in love.



http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1491600.html

It does make a difference, specially if the cake is at the venue..
One of my TT's was photograph by a professional and it looked so dreamy!
Edna

It's a beautiful cake in all the photos

If you don't want to pay a pro every time you make a cake, you can get a photo editing program to touch up your photos yourself.

Great! You can take that same pic, upload it to www.picnik.com and make it look even better. Upgrade to the pro account and do even more with it! Change the xposure, soften the edges, get rid of some of the background, focal zoom, lots of cool stuff

Picnik.com is my favorite site to edit! I used to have Photoshop on my Pc, sold it, then switched to Mac, and I no longer have it. When I found out about Picnik.com I was in heaven. I use it very often! I love editing pictures, specially my son's!

thanks for sharing, I will give it a try

Here's an example.

That looks great luverly!
Edna

That's a mirrored frame....it could look better with more definition at the top. I love Picnik. That program rocks tha house. Thanks Edna!

yes, both of the cakes are beautiful

Question.....When you use picnik.com are you still able to download the photo to CC? I was wondering if it gets to a point where you can no longer download as it is too big or whatever you want to call it.

Of course you can. You can resize it, do all kinds of stuff.

Edna, stop it ! Your cakes would look as good sitting in the driveway!!

I try to buy a photo from the brides photographer when I can. The photographer for this cakes was nice enough to give me a download of the photo. I will definietly try the pic site.

A fellow CCer saw one of my other cakes and she was at the wedding. She messaged me and told me my cake was on the photographers website. I was very impressed with that cake too. Its the lime green paisley one in my photos. I actually used it on my brochure cover.

Thanks for the feedback.

It really does make a difference. You can usually do it on your own, even if you don't have the equipment. Make sure you have nice natural lighting and a nice edititing software (I gotta try what Jamie suggested).

I read a few blogs on how to photograph food and it really helped me a lot.

I tried picnik..LOVE IT!

Home made light boxes:
http://www.studiolighting.net/homemade-light-box-for-product-photography/

http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent

Yeah...lightboxes! Totally forgot about those....now THAT is what gets a good picture right off the bat!

I just don't know how everyone does it - not only spend hours baking a cake, decorating, cleaning up, then taking the time to photograph it just perfectly. I am so tired when I finish I just don't want to mess with my camera and end up taking cell phone pics Kudos to those that pay attention to detail from top to toe though - it does make a huge difference I have to admit

It really made that cake come to life. It's a beautiful cake to begin with, but the professional pictures really brings out the personality of it. Thanks for sharing that.

I am in the process of converting my basement into my cake area/kitchen. I am working on a special area that can be left up at all times just to photograph my cakes. I am going to do a set of black backdrop and white. I think it will make a huge difference with my cakes. I usually post the pics to my webpage to and I want it to look more professional. I am going to have my hubby build a light box too. It will just be easier to have it in an area that doesnt have to be torn down and dug out everytime I need it.

I second Grandma!

Edna - I know your work and your cakes are beautiful without needing help from a professional -- you are the professional.

Very georgous cake Edna.

Thanks Echo!!

Lighting does make a huge difference!..Natural light works great too!
Edna

Thanks for the tips everyone and the picnik website is fantastic.. will be using that from now on!!

thanks for sharing all this info. i too will check into picnik. sounds like fun!