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Pei Lin Ng: Food Photography with a Beginner’s DSLR

Chris Gampat
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04/02/2016
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All images by Pei Lin Ng. Used with permission.

Pei Lin Ng is a Chinese girl from Malacca City, Malaysia. At 19 years-old, she’s quite the food photographer. “I started taking photos 6 years ago, when I was 13. It’s all because my desk mate and also my best friend got a DSLR camera from her dad as her 13th birthday present.” says Pei. “She introduced Instagram to me before the time Instagram became so popular.” Surrounded by very good friends who gave her positive reinforcement, she found the motivation to always keep shooting.

Part of the reason why Pei got into food photography is because she loves baking. “My passion for baking and my love for food literally got me into food photography!” she states. Many of her images are of the yummy stuff she makes.

“To me, photography is the only way to keep the memory or to make something last long.That’s why I take photos of my food before I eat them all hahaha. I was also be inspired by some of the photographers on Instagram.”

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Much of Pei’s imagery focuses on just the food. The reason: Pei likes focusing on details. She also likes making people feel like they’re right there. Indeed, perspectives are always important to photographers. “I’m thinking if I can make someone feels hungry just because he/she stares at my photos, what a big success!”

I found Pei on EyeEm, she states that she likes the platform more than Instagram. Specifically, she states, “Instagram is now more based on the likes and the popular individual among the little circus of your following and friends.” claims Pei. “EyeEm really gives a great opportunity to the photography lovers like us around the world. It makes us uncover many creative and talented photographer from all around the world.”

Using her little Canon EOS 100D, she creates beautiful images using the manual mode and natural lighting from windows. However, she says that something she needs to get even better images is a tripod.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.