Filming vegetables from the grocery store: Recently, I was at my local grocery store and was looking in the produce section. I spotted some romanesco broccoli (or roman cauliflower) and noticed how amazingly beautiful it was. The natural fractals it had were mesmerizing. In a spur of the moment decision, I decided to purchase a few to document them with my camera.
When I got home from the store, I turned my small NYC-sized kitchen into a “film studio.” I covered my kitchen table and walls with black duvetyne and placed the broccoli onto the table. For the lighting, I used a LED spot light and bounced it off the ceiling and used a 2’ by 3’ silk to diffuse the bounced light. It was the ghetto version of a ‘book light.’
It was a fun project I did very quickly with my equipment I had at home. Also, the broccoli tasted amazing! Add some hot sauce and bang, dinner time!
