Utah Advertising Photographer | Capturing Motion in Food Images

Utah Advertising Photographer

Capturing motion in an image can often be a fun challenge for me as a Utah advertising photographer. It’s tricky to freeze a moment in time with a moving object. However, it’s very rewarding when the result ends up better than I could have pictured it in my head! Today I’m sharing the story behind one of my favorite images that combined motion and food into one impactful photograph.

Capturing Motion in Food Images

This photo of powdered sugar falling on delicious beignets will always have my heart. When I captured this image, I used a Canon 6D camera with a Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens, ISO 200, f/2.0, 1/640 sec shutter speed. First, I set up the scene next to my bedroom window. Next, I set up my toddler’s table off to the side and she played with play dough while I worked. After setting up my camera on a tripod, I arranged the beignets on a cake stand and filled a baker’s dusting wand with powdered sugar. I pressed the self-timer button, stood to the side of the table and shook the dusting wand as the camera snapped photos, crossing my fingers that something would turn out well.

Getting the Perfect Shot

I repeated the process several times and there were many photos of poorly timed, blurry powdered sugar. But this lucky shot! The shape of the falling sugar is so beautiful and feels so graceful. I just love it. I wonder how many artistic moments in ordinary daily events we miss because time moves too fast. If my shutter hadn’t happened to click at this precise instant in time, I would never have known that sometimes, when it falls, powdered sugar can look like a curtain made of dewdrops, fluttering ever so slightly in a summer’s evening breeze.

Utah Advertising Photographer | Capturing Motion in Images | Hannah Israelsen Photography