Hi everyone ... I'm wondering if people would share what they know about hiring a professional to photograph the kind work we do. Has anyone ever hired a photographer just for a cake or cookie photographing session? I have several cookie designs that I would like to photograph (like 30) for my website (it doesn't exist yet), but I'm afraid it would be really expensive to hire a pro. I haven't looked into it yet, but I was wondering if I could get some advice from you cc'ers. What does it cost? Do you get .jpg files? Any tips if I go that route?
I don't know about hiring a professional, I just take my pictures myself. I have a good digital camera and I bought a large piece of black velvet so the camera lights don't reflect off of its surface. I wish I had the professional lights, that would give a much better picture, but that is farther down on my list of priorities! I take a bunch of pictures from all different angles and distances and then look at them on the computer to see if I got some really good ones. Then my husband uses one of his photo shop programs to take out my background (hence the black velvet - it is much easier to erase a background that is one solid color!) and it looks more or less like a professional picture.
ditto what kerririchards mentioned.
take lots of pics of each cake, in natural lighting if possible, and a couple are bound to come out good. then you can use photoshop (I think you can get a home version for $99 or less, sometimes it even comes with a printer).
Play with adjusting the brightness and contrast of the images, you'll be able to reduce some of that flash highlight if you didn't have good natural lighting when you took the pic.
If you really don't want to mess with it, check a local art school, you may be able to find "budding photographers" who will work at a reasonable price.
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