Tomato Soup- Unlimited Perspectives

My objective in this blog post is to achieve the highest quality picture possible of one inanimate object. I hope to capture this photo so it is from an interesting angle and it still shows the object in its “best light”. Since the most interesting thing in my life is food (it’s my favorite thing), I thought the best way to tell a story through my blog post was to take pictures of my meal now that I am taking part in the “new year, new me” craze, where I act like I will change myself for the better that it’s the new year. However, if I redid this blog post in two weeks, it would probably chik-fil-a instead of tomato soup. It was very delicious, and I hope that one of these photos captures how good it was in the viewer’s eyes.

This was my meal as it was when I was sitting there. The lighting was not good, it made a lot of shadows, and although the angle of the layout was kind of "artsy",  the salad and napkins were distracting, and half out of the picture.

This next picture is the birds eye view, which I thought showed the soup well except the light flashed in the soup's reflection, and you can see the shadows from my hands/wrists. 

This photo captures the cool shape of the bowl and I actually like the way the shadow falls on the table with the clear outline of the spoon. However, it desperately lacks the soup!!

I thought this picture was better than the last because you can tell that the object is 3D, but there is more going on in the background, like the napkin box.

This photo was definitely not my finest. The glare was still in the soup and the cup was awkwardly off-center, as well as the napkin box was still in the picture.

I like this one, because it shows the shape of the soup cup and the soup inside, but the corners are at kind of weird angles, and there is still a mess in the background.

This is my final photo. The spoup is shown and it has no glare, and there is much less stuff in the background.

I also tried my hand at using photoshop on my favorite picture. It definitely isn't the best it could be, but I like the crop much better, and I chose a filter that I think improves the quality.