roasted chicken & beef steak

Every Thursday, I've food styling class, which conducted by MR.A and MR.E...The main purpose of this syllabus included in my degree courses, is to identify the role of food stylist in various media such as editorial, public relations, promotional, print advertisement, packaging etc. to acquire techniques used in food preparation and presentation for camera.

Every week, we all have theory classes before we went to the kitchen. Today, there was an invited guest speaker who taught us about the lighting in photography and also how to use Photoshop photo editor. This software will be so useful for us to edit those pictures that we shoot.

he is explaining about the function of flashlight


teaching how to use photoshop

As for today, we have to prepare 2 dishes, roasted chicken and also beef steak. Its not like what we usually prepared it in kitchen, but, these dishes only for photo shooting purposes. So, there are several tricks and techniques we have to apply, in order to make the dishes look real and tempting to eat. 1st task is to prepared beef steak, we used sirloin steak instead..

The steak have to sear 1st on the both sides, to get the browning color on the surface.. Then, use the metal rode to make the grilled effect. If the color is not attractive yet, you can touch up with some coloring, to make it look caramelized and some burnt colors.

MR.E is searing the steak and heating the rod

use the hot rod to make the grill effect



the final shoot~ sirloin steak

The 2nd task is to prepare the roasted chicken. Unfortunately, we got the 'ayam cacat' one...haha...That chicken seems to 'baring-baring dengan rilex nya di tepi pantai' hahaha.. Dengan gaya senget sebelah...Everything we had tried to make it 'sit' properly on the plate, but we failed...hoho...Biar la dia nak baring-baring kejap :P .....Letih gamaknya..

The whole chicken must be trussing 1st, then soak it in boiling water for several minutes, to get the smooth and shinning skin which looks like it cooked. Then, with painting brush and some thick soy sauce, color the whole chicken, until the chicken look like roasted,then, after you get the correct tone and roasted effect, you may sprinkle with herbs or crush black pepper, to make it looks like the real roasted chicken.

kak aza coloring the chicken



final shoot 'roasted chicken'