Recreate

Recreation of product imagery.

These are Pillsbury Orange Sweet rolls, my favorite breakfast treat. They bring up nice memories because my mom makes them every Christmas morning.

I tried to get a really close and detailed photo of how they looked, but I wanted to do it differently than the product image I found on the Pillsbury website. (They actually didn't even have the right kind.) I thought about recipe websites, and how they usually show food in less glamorous, and more realistic ways so that the people using the recipes can follow along in their own kitchens. I wanted to do it close-up so people would concentrate only on the product, and not anything else in the background.

Food photography is usually very manipulated, sometimes not actually featuring the real results of what the food looks naturally. For example, sometimes companies have people hired just to make the food look good and they add things to the food that aren't naturally there. They'll add grease to hamburgers to make them look juicy, or they'll take a syringe and add little dots of condensation onto a pop can to make it seem cool and refreshing. I didn't add anything to mine and I hope that it looks really yummy, because they tasted excellent!