You get 3 color versions of the backdrop in a high resolution jpg file that you can download and print. Depending on your light set-up and editing, the backdrop can appear cooler or warmer, as you can see in the animation below.
There are some examples of the colors achieved with different light set-ups and editing styles.
The only right way to peel the banana without touching it with your dirty hands π Definitely not judging, you can peel your bananas as you wish but if you care about hygiene, consider not touching the peel and the banana without washing your hands in between, especially if you are prepping food for other people. For those who think we need some extra bacteria to survive and to build up the immune system, feel free to lick the peel, no one is holding you back πππ
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How do I peel bananas correctly and hygienically
For me, peeling the bananas correctly primarily refers to the hygienic practice of banana peeling. As we don’t wash bananas on the outside or the inside later, it’s just easier to leave the inside clean while peeling.
How to peel bananas correctly: simply pay attention to never touch the inside of the bananas and only to touch the peel when peeling.
We therefore need a bowl or a container for the peeled bananas and a container for the rubbish or the garbage can right next to the table.
Peel bananas right – easy steps
How can I easily peel bananas properly? It is of course important that the bananas should be ripe but not overripe. In the video I let the bananas last two days longer than necessary, and yours are also partially broken. That doesn’t happen when the bananas are perfectly ripe. Perfectly ripe bananas already have a lot of spots, but are not as black on the stem as mine.
Peeling bananas properly Starts by dividing the banana. It is much easier to peel a banana than bananas that are still connected. Decide where to start peeling, I find the bottom easier than the stem. Screams out the lower end while holding the bowl on both sides with both hands. When turning the bananas over, I hold the peel close to the rest of the bananas so that the peel doesn’t hang in the clean bowl or dangle from the clean, peeled banana.
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Even if the banana is peeled correctly, the banana can break off, which is not a problem at all, mostly you have a lot of bananas for banana ice cream where it does not matter whether the banana is broken because you will cut the banana into many small pieces.
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Peeling bananas correctly does not work
If you can’t peel the banana properly and you have to touch it because it’s missing on the table or becoming wobbly, that’s no problem. You can then leave the bananas that you have touched with dirty hands and then wash them off later when you have finished with the other bananas.
By way of explanation, I think that I wash my hands before I cut bananas into pieces.
Why is it important for me to peel-the-bananas correctly
For me it is important to peel the bananas carefully and to make sure that I do not touch the neatly separated pieces of banana with my dirty hands so that the banana stays hygienically clean. In the ideal packaging, in its own peel, it is a product that does not need to be washed off. That’s why I take care not to mess up this perfectly clean product.
There can still be a lot of dirt on the banana peel, dust and insect secretions as well as bird shit from the cultivation
During harvesting and transport, many people touch the bananas, they also store them on the ground and other unclean surfaces
Depending on which bananas you buy, bananas are treated with chemicals during cultivation and smoke form and after transport, these stick to the peel
in the shop, many customers touch the banana as well as the employees when clearing out the banana, we lie in the car on the assembly line and then in the car, but slowly with dirty hands in the shop when clearing and clearing out we like to touch
Dirt from the peel not small amounts on the clean edible part transferred to the banana
Here is an example of a recipe made from many peeled bananas
I'm passionate about eating the best food possible. I always buy organic and try to shop zero waste, in bulk and to support local farmers. For me, the people and the planet.
Cutlery by vintage inox casual product I got the knife in Hong Kong and the rest in Japan. This copper cutlery goes pretty well with rusty backdrops and with bright foods. I could not find any small spoons at that time unfortunately, I even looked online, but I got more plates and cups in different colors from this brand at their online shop.
I was looking for vintage baking sheets, preferably round ones online. But then, I saw this amazing vintage copper tray online and ordered it immediately.
When it came, I could not believe how beautiful but also huge it was. The colors, the color transitions, the stains were perfect for rustic but modern food photography backdrop. The bottom side has an even more amazing pattern.
But the tray is pretty thin so I would not be usable as a surface to put anything on it. It would bend unter just a couple of plates. So I decided to make prints out of it. And this is what you can do by downloading the file and printing your copper rustic backdrop to use for your food and product photography.
Buy your backdrop file here:
There are some examples of the colors achieved with different light set-ups and editing styles.
The texture is pretty “washed out” and resembles layered mold with no harsh lines except for some scratches. So the image does not look super crisp, which is due to the coloring, not the image quality.
You get a high resolution image and can adjust the size and colors to your liking.
You can print out your backdrop or use it digitally for your website or for your products. You get these 2 digital files.
And here are some food product and food shots with this copper backdrop.
Here the copper backdrop is aΓΆmost invisible in the background. Make sure to print in on a matt surface with matt ink and finish.
We still had some leftovers from last week, and I forgot to order greens. So fruit-wise, we mainly have persimmons, oranges, mangoes, cherimoya and a few melons this week. There was still corn, although the corn doesn’t look as good as it did a few weeks ago, but tomatoes and peppers are very nice and the avocados will also help soon.
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What I keep in the fridge, sorry for the Germany only video!
I always keep corn, grapes, and bell peppers in the fridge. Tomatoes and avocados only go into the fridge when already ripe.
I don’t want to argue about what goes in the fridge or not, for me it’s about as little spoils as possible, that’s the only criterion I take into account when I decide what goes in the fridge. The taste may suffer, but something that goes moldy doesn’t taste good to me anyway.
I'm passionate about eating the best food possible. I always buy organic and try to shop zero waste, in bulk and to support local farmers. For me, the people and the planet.
The idea for of focus stacking is to have more parts of the image in focus than technically possible. You might be limited by your camera settings or the lens capabilities. I was shooting this image in low light and went for a pretty low F-stop. I took four images with different focus points on a tripod, without changing any camera settings.
I edited all the photos in Lightroom, more precisely I edited one picture and applied the edits to all the photos by synchronizing the settings.
Preparation for the focus stacking action
Next step was to transfer all my photos I want to include into my focus stacked image to Photoshop.
Here I am opening all the pictures as layers in Photoshop. It will make sure all the photos are in one file.
Now, we have two steps ahead of us. First, we have to align all the layers. Because of the focus breathing of my lens, the images are a little off even though I shot on the tripod.
focus stacking STEP 1
Easiest way to find all the commands is in my opinion to just go to help and to search for a keyboard, here I knew I want to create layers and tipped layer into the search field.
focus stacking STEP 2
Next is the magic, that will find all the parts of our image that are in focus for us. It’s called also blend layers.
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focus stacking STEP 3 (optional)
Here we see all the layers of those the mask. The sea which part of every layer of the selected for the final image. The final image is the largest selection of all the images. I don’t like the automated version, I want to work on the layers a little bit more. Especially because a hand held the leaves and they are a little off in the final picture now.
To work with the masks, I select the individual masks, with a virus and black brush I can expose or cover the selections made by the mask. If you look closely, I have a backup folder under my layers that I’m working on.
In this “backup” folder all the original images. Even though I could switch on and off the masks to see the layers and to decide which parts of each layer I prefer, I find it a little bit easier to go through the original layers without the mask to see for example where my plant on the left comes out the best.
Here is the final image I am pretty happy with. Looking at it here, I wish I left the backdrop, meaning the tiles, a little bit more out of focus.
Watch this tutorial and go through the editing process in real time while practicing on your image.
I got some nuts nut butters and cacao butter in this week to make some winterly a recipe soon. I have some great sweats and salad recipes with tahini. Amazing banana cinnamon rolls with almond butter are the Fruitadmin, book and a parmesan recipe made with macadamias.
I'm passionate about eating the best food possible. I always buy organic and try to shop zero waste, in bulk and to support local farmers. For me, the people and the planet.
Beautiful mushrooms from the forest across the street.
Where did the bench come from? I believe it’s in the old bench from the GDR times my husband’s parents kept. The wood was super dry and porous and absolutely not safe to be set on. They planned on throwing the planks away some time in the future, which would have been there so much faith waste, these are absolutely gorgeous.
It’s pretty hard to paint new wood this way to make it look old. I’m so happy I spotted this bench 10 years ago when we were shooting some random embarrassing photos in the garden. I kept the bench in the back of my mind and as soon as we heard the parents are going to demolish it, we claimed the planks.
For a while, I pretty much hated the planks being loose and always planned on screwing them together in someway. But I never had to space to store a huge board. We were traveling at that time and had to put everything into a small storage unit.
I’m glad I didn’t screw them together or onto a board. I now can you lay them out on the table in the way I like it. The only issue with them is, that the back planks are a tiny bit thinner than the sitting area planks. The sitting area planks are also a little bit wider. Sometime is it looks a little bit weird in the picture, so I get tempted to cut the planks in half and have an even, but more squared backdrop.
On the other hand, long planks are better for the 16:9 video format. The only augmentation added to the planks so far, was to seal them with an acrylic varnish. The paint was chipping off a little bit every time I used them creating a mess on the table. Plus, I didn’t want to lose all the paint over time.
Here is what I bought this week, in October there will be more winter things again, like the kale. Of course, there are still carrots, but there are all kinds of cabbage too: kale, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. There are also salads regionally. I have also ordered melons, khaki and avocados from other European countries. Pumpkin is of course totally on the way, is that of the pumpkin recipes that all are, but these are anyway for advanced users.
I'm in love with the raw vegan recipes. For me, it's the freshness of the ingredients and the ease of the food prep. And the recipes turn out so yummy (most of the time;), especially the desserts. Try some of my simple recipes here.
At the German dollar stores, and I suppose the dollar stores all over the world I always see those places matts who is some interesting points, that might make a good backdrop. I always wondered if I could use them as a backdrop, even though those are pretty small on size.
today I tried out two different ones. And wouldn’t print any stone print. Usually, the darker colors are more shiny and harder to work with. That’s why I picked out colors and took the photos in front of the south facing window in the evening. You can see a little shine in the photo above. In the edit it because she picture I moved the table a little further away from the window and edited the shine out,but it it was almost not there to begin with.
As for the stone print, it’s not the greatest pattern for a surface, it’s not really believable than that cashews would not fall through and lie flat as they appear in the photo.
Make a good back wall though.
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As for the wooden print placemat, I think it’s a great surface. The coloring is a little grayish, but I like it overall. For macro photography place matts are pretty good surfaces, if you pick a believable print and the print quality is good.
Huge cutting boards are super expensive, so I checked my local hardware store for some interesting and good quality wooden boards and I found some.
They also sell some aged and reclaimed wood that would be awesome as a backdrop. There are also very good alternatives to marble backdrops: kitchen counters. They have pretty solid and good quality marble prints and sometimes I can find a leftover piece for under β¬50. Sometimes even for β¬10. My most favorite marble backdrop, it’s a kitchen counter from IKEA, it was 20 β¬, not a piece, the whole thing in the sale corner.
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Here I took some test shots I was photographing some old props and raspberries.
Desperately wanted a real marble backdrop as my marble backdrops are all fake. I was looking at the German craigslist if I could find some old table or some marble cutting board or something nearby we could pick up.
And I was in luck that day, this beautiful table showed up. I knew I have to pick it up. And the best part is, it was only 35β¬. This is the original ad. I found it on Monday, my husband was a little sore from helping his family move, and I was on my period and didn’t feel like lifting anything heavy. So I decided to pick up the table the next friday.
We drove to the pick up location, but the seller, who was helping his uncle to sell hs things, forgot about us. So no one was at the house. We went to a nearby hardware store, I filmed you a video there on how I picked up some wooden boards on insta reels.
Meanwhile, we got in touch with the seller. I wrote him we are nearby at the hardware store. He came to the house. But he thought we are not gonna come back, so he left again. But then we agreed to all come back once agian to the house so we get the table.
Wash the cashews and blend with the water on high speed for 60 seconds. Use immediately or store in the refrigerator for a few hours.
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Cashew milk is so easy to make
I want to show you today the easiest and tastiest milk recipe for coffee and tea made from just one ingredient, the cashews. This milk tastes amazingly, it’s really simple in the preparation. I have to strain the milk order to protect ingredients in advance. It is truly an instant milk recipe. In just a minute you cash your milk is ready to be enjoyed.
I’m using just organic raw cashews and water for this recipe. Any good blender of course. You can actually use any blender you have. If your blender is not powerful at all, you might want to soak the nights overnight.
To make this vegan milk, you don’t need to measure anything
I always use just a couple of tablespoons of cashews. You can adjust the richness of the milk by adding more cashews or more water. This way you can have full-fat, reduced-fat milk, or low-fat vegan milk.
I always wash the cashews before making the milk
I like to wash the car she was before making the milk, I am by usually roll vegan cashews. So I never know who hand cracked them, how they were the dried, what bugs or cockroaches were crawling all over them.
In the blender, I just blend water and nuts.
Are usually just eyeball the amount of water. But if I add too much water, it might splash out. It can also happen, that the cashews are just going to swim around and not get blended at all.
Any blender can be used to make this cashew milk
If your blender is really weak or the nuts super dry, try to blend the cashews with half of the water first. Then add the second half of water and blend again.
The milk is pretty similar to cow’s milk, it has some form and face in neutral and sweet.
Vegan plant-based milk from cashews with tea and coffee
Now, I’m going to try the milk with coffee and tea, let me make both first.
Green tea with cashew milk
I definitely think that this milk is the most perfect milk for green tea. The black tea might taste even better, but for green tea there is still no better alternative than cashew milk, I believe. The cashew milk doesn’t change the taste of the tea, it just takes out the bitterness and makes the drink creamy in mild.
Black tea with cashew milk would have been even better
I don’t have black tea to try the milk at the moment, I usually only have one kind of tea for guests. I don’t wanna stock on too many products I don’t use on a regular basis to not to let them spoil.
This milk is perfect for hot, warm, cold tea. For me it’s a cold tea today as I’m filming the video for more than an hour already.
Full fat or half fat, you can adjust this vegan milk to your liking
This milk is pretty rich, adjust it to your liking by adding more water to the original recipe, or just using less milk. You can definitely, if you want, and even more cautious to make rw vegan cream.
The tea is definitely super tasty and the milk and enhances the taste of the tea.
Coffee and cashew milk test
Now I’m going to taste the milk versus the coffee, I using organic coffee beans and grind them first.
Now to coffee is almost cold.
But I_m sure it will taste just like tasty cold coffee.
With the cashew milk the coffee is definitely much tastier than without.
Cashew milk is the best for Coffee and tea, but not the cheapest
I truly think that the cashew milk is the best plant-based milk alternatives for coffee or tea. This milk is not just easier to make, the taste is mild and neutral. There is no naughty aftertaste. I’m pretty sure everyone will like this milk. Cashew milk is not the cheapest, but it’s still cheaper than buying a lower quality prepackaged milk at the store. I will be posting some more affordable plant-based recipes here on the blog too.
I'm in love with the raw vegan recipes. For me, it's the freshness of the ingredients and the ease of the food prep. And the recipes turn out so yummy (most of the time;), especially the desserts. Try some of my simple recipes here.
I bought these place at a flea market, that does not longer take place in Berlin. It was a small cute market in a urban garden setting. Mainly just people from the neighborhood coming with a couple of boxes of private stuff they no longer need. Mainly clothes and household items. So I got these modern plates a couple was selling for around 25β¬ if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out who these are by. It was an artist from Hamburg I remember them saying. Hope I find out who made those.
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It's a vinyl backdrop you can roll up and store easily. It's water resistant and affordable. I ordered this backdrop here, you can get 15% off there by following this link.
Wash the kale. Cut off the stems and chop them up. In a pot with a little bit of boiling water, add the stems, cover with a lid and cook for 1-3 minutes on medium heat. Chop up the leaves and ad to the pot and cook for 1 min with the lid on. Drain over a strainer or colander and serve with kimchi and sesame.
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It's a vinyl backdrop you can roll up and store easily. It's water resistant and affordable. I ordered this backdrop here, you can get 15% off there by following this link.
Raw, steamed, or blanched
I love raw kale in salads. Raw kale and especially kale stems can be bitter and tough to chew. Steaming kale can help to remove the bitterness and to soften the stems and the leaves, making them easier to chew and to digest.
I almost never steam or blanch kale, but its a great way to offer kale to friends, who are absolutely not interested in a raw kale salad. I would make a raw kale salad for myself, and this dish for guests.
I was planning on filming and posting a lot about raw vegan cake recipes. But sadly, making the cakes is so exhausting, so I never feel like filming or photographing them on a day I’m making them.
Short couple of cakes for my recipes books though. Back to the utensils, these are really gorgeous items to buy and also not really pricey it has not so many people are looking for them. At flea markets, I feel like a spoons can be sometimes be more expensive than our spoon or fork.
Like this Backdrop? You can have it!
It's a vinyl backdrop you can roll up and store easily. It's water resistant and affordable. I ordered this backdrop here, you can get 15% off there by following this link.
Most of these I found in Germany and France, this is particularly because I started collecting food photography props by living in Germany, and we also traveled friends by car and could take a couple of things with us back home. But I also saw some amazing ones in the US and in New Zealand. Cake lifters are definitely not a rarity, but surely a really nice pop to spice up a cake shot or festive table set up.
As for prices, they vary heavily depending on the flea market and the seller, and the condition of course. The range, outliers aside, is between 3β¬ and 15β¬. Which one would you have picked up at a flea market?
An old wire basket I got online last year on a german reseller website “kleinanzeigen”, similar to craigslist. I expected it to be smaller as there were no measurements in the ad. But am very happy with the size now as I started shooting stop motion and need larger props for fruit hauls.
I shot the stop motion almost in the dark and the quality was pretty bad as the ISO I went up dramatically. Nevertheless the rustic atmosphere is enhanced by it and in the basket understood the assignment.
Like this Backdrop? You can have it!
It's a vinyl backdrop you can roll up and store easily. It's water resistant and affordable. I ordered this backdrop here, you can get 15% off there by following this link.
Here are some iPhone close-ups of the food photography prop basket.
I bought these old metal props at the flea market in Spain couple of years ago. I love using them as containers for food photography. Especially when photographing nuts.
Old kitchen utensils made of tin or any material that catches rust is not easy to find.
People repurpose metal baking molds as pots for plants. Being exposed to water constantly, the molds are rusting away and get discarded within a few years.
That's why every time I find some slightly rusty metal molds or seaves, I'm really excited as I know I will be taking care of for years and enjoying they as a versatile food photography prop. I used them for this raspberry shoot here.
The excellently grew some raspberries in our garden, the landlord planted couple of bushes at the fence and we didn’t even know about them until our grass cut a robot that stuck in it. Couple of raspberries appeared in the middle of October, I didn’t expect to see any this time of the year. It was a late afternoon and all the snow natural light outside but I still wanted to take couple of pictures of those beauties. I will share a preset with you that you can get for your artificial light food photography. I have a very simple one light source setup here for this photo.
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Darker and lighter preset
You get 2 presets. One for a darker and one for a lighter result. They are the same, except the exposure adjustment. having both speeds up the process depending on the brightness of your original shot. I find it helpful if shooting with an auto ISO setting and getting different exposures.
Here is an example of a brighter initial image I took:
The Iso was 640.
Here is the Preset for a brighter initial photo, it’s perfect.
Here is the Preset for a darker initial photo, it’s too bright here.
Here is an example of a darker initial image I took
I shot it at ISO 200.
Here is the Preset for a brighter initial photo, it’s too dark.
Here is the Preset for a brighter initial photo, I love it.
As always. Adjust EVERYTHING you like. Especially the exposure, the color balance, and also the Hue and Saturation of the colors. I like the green slightly bluish and the overall image cooler, but you do you!
I found amazing plates and a cake stand by Motomu Oyama at 2 different locations in Japan. I bought most of the pieces at Hakujitsu. We met him at one of the locations. It’s always very special to meet the artist and it was extra special to meet the artist I already have some amazing pieces from at home.
The enamel plate is by Motomu Oyama. The greater is vintage from an online reseller.
You bought a digital file or took a photo you wish to make into a backdrop, lets print it out.
Printing at home will not work!
Unless you have a little printing studio and a great printer, it’s better not to try printing your backdrop at home. If you need a very small backdrop, you can print it onto a matt sheet of photography paper. Scale the pattern your liking, otherwise the pattern might be to tiny.
Here are some examples of materials you can print backdrops on:
My favorite backdrops for food and product photography.
Online services
You can find a service online, that will print your backdrop to your liking. Depending on your budget you can print it onto paper, vinyl, tarp, styrofoam, wood, glass.
The cheapest for me is the wallpaper print. There are different papers and finishes to choose from. Vinyl and tarp are water resistant and are versatile in use.
If you are not sure what material to print your backdrop on, you may ask the online store staff to send you some small material samples if possible. If not, order a couple small backdrops first before ordering bigger ones. Small, even tiny backdrops can be useful for macro photography and close-up shots.
Flea markets are amazing places to get food photography props, especially if you are a little bit more into the rustic dark moody photography. The price is the deathly market are usually a little bit better than online, and you also can see the goodies real life touch them and maybe even take a test shot to see if the item is suitable for your food photography ideas.
I found quite a few graters, they are usually a good addition for simple foods styling set up, rusty non-shiny items are usually the best.
This potato basket is amazing! It’s generation on I believe of the German potato baskets, I was looking for a little bit of a newer model that I used couple of years ago for a photo shoot. It was landed and I wanted to have my own. But this one worked so well and the photos turned out so pretty. Cats work with any kind of from fruits, not just potatoes.
This marble washing board or laundry board is going to be a great backdrop or a background. The pattern catches the shadows amazingly.
Here is an antique potato squeezer or press, most antique potato presses are made of aluminum with a solid handle, which is not particularly interesting for food photography styling.
This chocolate malt is a really pretty accessory for photographing tiny things like spices, this one is a little bit too shiny for my teeth but I will see what I can do with it.
I was looking for a bigger nature in cup and executive color but I only found this small one it was sold with the doll house kitchen equipment. It’s gonna be amazing for photographing spices too.
All in all I paid almost 100β¬ for all the stuff + 5 euros parking for the car. We couldn’t have done it without the car. The basket and the laundry board were too heavy. We also don’t live in Berlin anymore and had to come with the car anyways.
I’ve had to come to the city for an appointment, that’s why we only made it to the market in there afternoon. In the morning, there would have been so much more stuff I would be able to choose from. But to be honest, I’m not sure if I would have come to the market if I didn’t have another reason to be in the city that day. I feel like most of the stuff tI like at the market I already have.
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Food photography is the biggest of my passions at the moment. I collect props and try all the new food photography techniques for you.
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