One of my favorite late night snacks is microwave popcorn. It is low in calories and carbs. Although being the movie theater butter kind doing compare to actually getting it at the movie theater it is a lot cheaper and you can always add more butter if you so desire.
Photographing the Packaging
When photographing the packaging it is important to have even lighting. In the case of this product the bags that you put in the microwave has a plastic cover on it that I removed in order to make sure there was not a glare. This also allowed me to prop up the bag so that it is better seen by the camera.
Lighting and Set Up
Since popcorn is a white to yellow it does not create very many shadows. I was able to use pretty minimal light to set this one up. As seen in the image on the left I used a single light on the side and I did not have to use any white foam core to as fill light because if I added too much light I would end up losing the texture of the popcorn.
I used a clear glass bowl so that you could see all the popcorn. However I felt like the photograph needed more life so I decided to spread popcorn in a random fashion in front of the bowl because we all know no matter how hard you try when eating popcorn it still gets everywhere.
After that I felt the photo still need more so I took some popcorn from the back of the bowl so that the bowl still looked full on camera and I used that to throw/ drop into the bowl. This took many many tries to get just enough popcorn to be in the air at the time I took the photo. However, I believe it was worth it because this technique brought life to an otherwise very still photograph.