Today I will tell you about photographing a header picture to food and lifestyle blog. I was asked to photograph a blog's header for new cool blog Boiling Under by Pauliina Siniauer. Her blog is about food stories and good recipes. I was very happy about this assignment because I could photograph my favorite things - food and lifestyle. I usually love the word editing but this time I will show you many photos that you see the process.
Because she lives in Berlin at the moment we planned the project only writing each other. We went through her favorite ideas, ingredients and made a Pinterest board together. That is very useful tool. There were things she liked and ideas I wanted to show her. Important was that we speak same language. But still I got quite free hands to photograph what and how I thought things would work. I started to get images in my head. I love that moment. Boiling Under name gave me thoughts quite generously. Finally it took one day to go and get the ingredients - most of them are Pauliinas's favorite ones, style, photograph and send the photos to Pauliina. 
I tried different kind of compositions and changed order and ingredients. I made simple compositions and more complex compositions.
My love for vintage items is quite obvious - I admit :)
It's a great feeling when you feel that there is a flow going in your brain and things makes sense and looks good.
Just changing little things you make the difference.
But at the end of the day I usually have to say that less is more. But if you don't try different kind of things you don't find the right one if you know what I mean...
I was designing the blog's header to blog about food and good recipes. It gave me a lot of possibilities. But I happen to know the person and the name Boiling Under is - to me - something not so obvious, a bit hidden and trending. This person has an excellent sense of humour and she is greatly skilled in writing and she is very good speaker. But still the less is more is better than too much and way too many thoughts.
We both agreed the same picture. We like more about a hint of something than obvious things even though they look good and are pretty. Back to square one. The first idea I had in my mind was simple and I got it when I saw this charming little casserole that my workspace friend Meri-Tuuli have full of salt :)
xoxo Kreetta
ps. I wonder what should I do with all those photos. They might be quite nice pics on the kitchen wall or what you think?
Hei ihanaa että kirjoitit tän syntytarinan tänne. Mä ehdottomasti haluan näitä mun keittiön seinälle!
ReplyDeleteSo grateful to you for all the work, the pictures are amazing! Still love all of them. But yes, the last one really makes me smile, over and over again <3
:) onhan tää nyt vähintään pienen runoilun aihe. Pitää selvitellä vähän miten niitä kuvia tekisi. You are welcome Pauliina. It was fun and interesting project! I'm smiling too :)
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