Felicia Chuo

A creamy meatball pasta shot with artificial light. A super simple pasta dish to spruce up store-bought frozen meatballs. It was mostly an exercise for pasta styling as I mostly work with sweets and baked goods.

An impromptu birthday cake shoot of a chestnut cream cake. It took several background changes to get to the final shot, not to mention some Photoshop surgery to patch up the cream on the sides of the cake - peeling the wrapping off the cake also peeled off chunks of cream. Shot using natural light.

An Easter hot cross bun cheesecake. Wanted to give the feeling of some kind of woodland (and also play around with a new backdrop!), hence all the greens and kind of neutral browns. Shot with natural light.

Homemade earl grey and speculoos bubble tea. A surprisingly good combination! Shot with back-angled light to create a glow effect.

A chocolate hazelnut cake completed late at night and shot with flash. I can never resist taking a harsh light shot when working with flash! The two leafy shadows were composited in as I could only hold up one at a time.

Instant bubble tea made to look not so instant. Harsh light is only partially diffused by thin sheer curtains, and props were chosen to emphasise a 'natural' feel with all the browns.

Drown. Inspired by top-down lighting I did when I first played around with flash. I thought it looked like sun rays through water, with water droplets looking like bubbles, and thus thought of this idea.

Eating a steaming pot of instant noodles on a lazy weekend. harsh backlighting was utilised here to capture the steam and add a kind of nostalgic glow.

An individual Lunar New Year gathering. This was inspired by more product-style photography and was shot with one speedlight and one pair of hands.

A gathering with kaya toast (ft. Malaysian coffee) on a sunny day. Except the sun was a speedlight and the hands are all one person. The speedlight was placed behind a window with thin curtain sheers which diffused it ever so slightly.