Chocolate cookies dusted with sugar beside a jug of milk on a dark wooden table

Dark Kitchen, Warm Light

Underexpose the room and light only the food. The picture should look like a kitchen at the end of the day rather than a studio with a table in it.

One softbox at forty-five degrees and slightly behind, so the sugar dust catches an edge. Everything else in the room switched off, including the overheads that were adding a green cast I did not notice until the second review.

Milk goes grey under warm light unless you give it something to reflect. The jug is glass for exactly that reason.

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