First, pick the distance, camera to lens, that is appropriate to fix the perspective. This will generally be just slightly longer than normal distance from the normal viewer's, diner's (or chef's) eye to the food. Adjust as you like for effect. Select the lens length that best fills the frame. This will depend on the size of the spread. Works for all film formats. General idea works great for all sorts of photography. Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------- "Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?" -Martin Luther From: "P. David Van Verst" <prolab@mtco.com> > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 06:52 PM, Jorj wrote: > > > Any experienced food photographers have a preferred focal length (for > > 35mm) > > for photographing food shots, plated settings? > > > > Jorj > > > Jorj.... > > I prefer a 240mm (on 4x5 format). This would be approximately 80mm for > 35mm format.
