Does anyone have tips on how to take great pictures of your cakes? I have a hard time taking pictures that are sharp and in focus. Especially up-close for those details..... they always come out blurry. How about tips on background? Thanks for reading my post! 
Sandi
I use black posterboard for my background/bases or a white blanket draped behind my cakes...that way you don't see things in my kitchen...just my cake! I use my digital camera as well, taking advantage of the many features ~ up close, museum, portrait ~ and then I pick out the one I like best. Trail and error...
try and wait until morning and take pics in natural light, i prefer outside. you will be surprised how much difference elecric light (or camera flashes) make to your colours.
My son told me to stand well back to take the pictures even if you get things in the background but then crop them to delete the things in the background. I always use a black sheet behind most of my cakes. Have a look at my website. There is a free photo editing programme that you can download (PhotoFiltre)and I always edit them in this. If I should still have things in the background I clone these areas so all the back ground looks the same. Should you what any help with this programme pm me.
my husband does most of my photos, because he dabbles in photography on the side. the biggest thing that helps with our photos is NOT using the automatic settings on your digital camera. read the book, play around, and learn how to use the manual settings. makes a big difference. i have a peice of black poster board and a piece of white poster board to use as the background of important cakes. unimportant cakes, i just try to clear away the junk and get a nice pic.
Ditto on trying to wait until daylight. I usually snap a few when I'm done just in case and then do more in the morning. The flash can be particularly harsh on BC. I usually stand pretty far away, sometimes on a chair, and then zoom in so the flash doesn't bounce off the cake so hard.
I've got a black velvet cloth I drape over a chair and then set the cake on the chair so the cloth is below and behind it.
one of the best tips that i got.....
there is a button on most digital camers called the macro. it looks like a flower. that button enables you to take very closeup pictures without blurring(almost always)
my uncle is an art photographer.
Isaby, you didn't say what kind of camera you are using. Is it digital? do you use the auto focus? etc.
I set up an area in my formal living room with 2 pole lights. I have a black cloth draped over some foam core board. I use 1 light for the front of the cake and 1 at the side to remove the shadows. It works out pretty well and usually the colors are correct.
You might do a search on this topic because I remember another thread that addressed this issue and it may have additional helpful info for you.
Kneadacookie, I have not tried the macro, but now that you mentioned it, I remember seeing it in the manual. I'll have to check it out tomorrow.
Hi Everyone,
I purchased a digital camera when I started doing cakes last year and for my son's wedding. It was one of the best purchases I ever made. I just love it and the fact you can delete the ones that aren't so great. I take about 5 or 6 of each cake and post the best. My daughter gave me a great gift for Christmas. It is a portable photography studio that I try and use now when taking the pics. It came with different colored backgrounds, lights and a mini tripod. It's great but still learning all the functions. Another thing I find is that taking the pics during the daylight helps too. Flashes are not always the best pics.
I agree with take 500 pictures and try and pick the best.
I do keep a few backdrops just for my cake photos.As for day light or flash pictures that's another one that is the luck of the draw for me. The Barbie cake in my photos is one of my favorites it just so happened when I snapped it the sun came in big and bright right behind the set up.
Your cakes look great by the way and they don't show up blurry on my monitor at all!
...thanks kneadacookie.....I have never used that setting and will try it...
I take tons of pics and then ask my BF to help me decide!
I make sure background it uncluttered and clean....As I had seen this ad for cakes online and now I see how important it is,especially is you want people to buy them.....The counter top was dirty and I thought wow sure turned me off to ever order one! (even though the cakes themselves looked great....)
great tips everyone!
if you look at some of the pics in my photos, i am literally inches away from the cookies
You may also want to use a tripod they hold the camera steady so that your close up pics aren't blurry.
A messy background is definitely one of my pet peeves. My kitchen is ALWAYS a wreck when I finish a cake so I move to the dining room
I agree. You can have a beautiful cake and the background can be a total distraction. (Even if it is general stuff on the counter.)
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