Candy Dish Blog

Not only do I love this photo, but I think it is a great combination of traditional items people use to express love – flowers and candy. My lovely wife has done me the honor of sticking with me through 14 years of marriage as of this previous Monday, so a photo of some candy flowers is the very least I could get her. Actually, after I photographed them, we shared one that I dropped and cracked. It seemed only fitting that we put it out of its misery. It was delicious!

These lollipops were made by the Melville Candy Company and are beautiful – true works of art for both the eyes and the taste buds.

This type of photo presents some technical problems. How do you light it brightly enough to get the white background but not so bright that the candy gets washed out? How do you get the lollipops to appear to be standing up? What f-stop, shutter speed and ISO combination works best and how do you adjust for the mixture of light colors found in the studio? Well, if I answered all those questions I would be out of business as a photographer.

However, what I can disclose is that every photographer has a slightly different recipe for his or her special sauce to make great photos. My challenge to you is to photograph some candy in your own studio and we can talk about how to make it into a better photo.

Do you want your candy photos featured here? Submit them to the Candy Dish Blog Flickr group. We want to see your candy photos and so does the rest of the world!