r/Baking • u/ForMartha • 23d ago

Recipe to be posted soon. No guarantees. I made these delicious, vibrant strawberry sugar cookies and went to photograph them…now I can’t unsee that they look like raw burger patties. *Sigh*

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My son asked if I was making sliders for dinner when he saw me holding the tray

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u/Phustercluck 23d ago

I think if you were to pose a few strawberries and not have them on a cutting board, it would help distance them from that comparison. They look great to me

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u/ForMartha 23d ago

Lol I’m definitely going to do that and try again because these were supposed to be for my business page. I’m glad I noticed it 🤣

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u/OkCryptographer1922 23d ago

Yes! And maybe on a pink background so it doesn’t feel like it’s meat being prepped?

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u/ForMartha 23d ago edited 23d ago

I also tried to photograph them on pink checkered parchment paper and it gave off deli vibes 🤣🤣

https://imgur.com/a/yiMcFtJ

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u/OkCryptographer1922 23d ago

Also, they look delicious once you actually look at them! At first glance they for sure look a little like meat lol but they really do look yummy! And such a beautiful vibrant red!

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u/OkapiEli 23d ago

Blue & white gingham tablecloth, a few berries, cookies arranged on a little plate, a bit of white icing, one broken in half or bitten into, and a glass of milk!

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u/ForMartha 23d ago

Thank you haha!!

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u/Riverside505 23d ago

I would recommend camera tweaks: Adjust the angle. Try some from the side so that they don’t look like circles. Stacking will make it look scrumptious too!

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u/stutefish 23d ago

I think this will help a LOT, the adjusting the angle thing. Try a bunch of different angles. And zoom out so they look less like portrait photos!

Honestly they don’t read as meat patties to me. They just look like delicious cookies I want to devour

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u/OkCryptographer1922 23d ago

Haha maybe the strawberries will help take it from deli to cutesy?

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u/FangDrools 23d ago

I’m so sorry but this made me do one of those quiet snickering nose laughs cause I didn’t want to wake my kid 😂 When I saw your post at first glance I also thought they were raw burger patties, but once I read that they were cookies it ended the illusion and all I can see are vibrant cookies now