Photographing Japanese food with a Nikon D750 by Vincent Natali: I'm Vincent from Paris, France and I created the website cecj2.com in 2008 about Japanese restaurants. As a semi-professional food blogger, I have read many books and articles on how to take food pictures. A tripod, a long distance lens (85mm at least) and a light diffuser were used, but none of these are possible when you are in a fancy Japanese restaurant in Tokyo or in a dive bar. I'll explain to you all my tips for real-life food photography. As a blogger, I photographed in more than 1200 restaurants in the past 10 years all over Europe and Japan. I bought my Nikon D750 in the Rising Sun's capital - it was one-third of the price and in perfect shape. I use only one lens, the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G with quite fast auto-focus, but before that, I used manual lenses, there's no chance that your food will get away, no worries. As a Japanese aficionado, I'm a huge fan of "bokeh" which means "blur" in Japanese and can only be achieved with a fast lens. That's my first personal aesthetic choice. Most food photographers will tell you not to go further than f/2.8 but I personally disagree. I would even try a f/0,95 Mitakon lens but unfortunately, I can't use it on my Nikon D750. Starting with a 50mm f/1.8 is also a great choice. The other plus of using a lens with a wide aperture is that...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 9 June, 2018