Most of you have heard of shooting tethered with Adobe Lightroom. Any of you that are doing that, also know what a pain it can be with all the stalling and crashing that happens during every single shoot. You actually have an alternative. It's called Capture One Pro. In this post, I'm going to be talking about shooting tethered with Capture One Pro. What is shooting tethered and why it’s so … [Read more...]
Behind the Scenes of the Lobster Bake Shot
This image is from a shoot I did to create some promo images. I often have to create what's called test images to make promotional material to get new work. These images are showing the weathered wood surface that I found at a wood salvage yard in Los Angeles. I go over how I found those in detail in that post. The Food A lobster bake is a traditional New England thing to do in the … [Read more...]
Photographing Restaurants – Part 3 – How to Take Good Pictures of Food in a Restaurant
And now for the final part of my Restaurant Photography Series - Part 3 - How to take good pictures of food in a restaurant. I will finally be talking about photographing the food and chefs for restaurants. The shot above was done for Napa Valley Grille in Westwood, CA. I was hired to shoot from 2-4:30 pm. I ended up shooting from 2 - 5:30 pm. We did a ton of shots in a short time period. This … [Read more...]
Photographing Restaurants – Part 2 – My Food Styling Kit
I am not a food stylist. I am a food photographer. Huge difference. Over the years, I have learned several tricks for styling food, so when I am photographing food in restaurants without a food stylist, I will have to help the Chef style the food a lot of the time. I will show you the little food styling kit that I bring with me on location. It aint pretty, but it's extremely handy. This … [Read more...]
Behind the scenes of a food shoot – Angel Meringue Cake
Every month we do what we call "test" shoots for ourselves. These are images that we will use for self promotion, for our websites and well, really - its just a fun day to shoot food where we are the clients and we can do what ever we want! The "we" being Amy (prop stylist extraordinaire), Alise (food stylist extraordinaire) and myself. We figure out what day we are all free and then discuss what … [Read more...]
Food shoot behind the scenes for Dulcinea foods
I like to create images that look like they are outside but were really shot in my studio. This was shot for Dulcinea. We were creating a scene as though these were just picked off the farm. I have a garden center right near my studio so we'll get these kinds of grasses you see in the background from there often. I had the help of my good friend and prop stylist Amy Paliwoda. Amy and … [Read more...]
Shooting Tethered with Adobe Lightroom for Your Food Shots
This post was updated June 28th, 2020 What Does Shooting Tethered Mean? Shooting tethered means that your camera is attached to your computer. As you are taking pictures, the images come into your computer via a usb cable - or wirelessly, but that is much slower and I never take pictures that way. As a professional photographer, if you are in a studio environment, your clients will expect … [Read more...]