from a certain angle and you can see the way she looks at the dish

shes creating that with a photo in mind

now if she was standing over it like this i would be thinking right shes creating

something graphic that should be shot from above

but i tend to watch the way she is doing it and the way she's plating up because

shes looking at it at the best angle

i wouldn't then shoot it that way because then of course

Ginny is not looking at it that way

when i'm shooting dishes and um...

your very aware you have to get all the angles right and get everything straight

and normal

but quite often if you stick a

tall bottle in the background you know ether its a wine bottle or a glass bottle because of perspective and

the way

the lens is focused on the food quite often

the bottle will look like its shooting out of your picture

we've got a little little

pile of coins in our

pocket

and uh...

you just slip a couple of coins if something looks a bit

and is always

you always have to sort of

you have to bend it further than you think

just by sticking it a couple of coins

underneath the bottle

everything it's straight wonky straight

I've taking one of my um my backgrounds here and literally

just resting it against the stand but

I've just popped it in to create a horizon really within the shot

my feeling is with this dish its floating islands its going to be quite

tall hopefully

but have little layers as well of custards creams or whatever

and little floating islands of meringue on top so i thought i probably want to be quite low

and my brief is to keep this very sort of soft and grey and blue and stuff

so all i have done is

added the board to the back to create a little horizon within the image

so its a nice soft

almost theatrical background really

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