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How To Prepare For Your Food Photo Shoot – Make A Shot List!
When I started teaching food photography classes several years ago I saw that many of my students were completely overwhelmed with how to put a photo shoot together. They would say to me in frustration, “I don’t even know where to start”. Even if you’ve been shooting for a while now, or just starting out, this…
Compositing Tricks with Photoshop
This image looks simple, right? Just slap 9 scoops of sorbet on a platter and throw some food accents on it. Easy! Yeah, no. This final image is a composite of 10 images – each image was of one scoop of sorbet with it’s food accent, plus an image of just the marble platter. This…
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…
Inspiring Food Photography from The Modernist Cuisine
If you haven’t seen this yet – you really need to add this to your list. I’m talking about the massive cooking encyclopedia called The Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. It’s a whopping 2,438 pages in a 5 volume set. The author is Dr. Nathan Myhrvold. That’s right, I said Doctor. Photography…
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…
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…
Behind the Scenes of a Breakfast Food Shoot
It’s been very crazy and busy the last few weeks. I thought it would be fun to show some recent photo shoots and some behind the scenes shots. I had a very fun shoot with a good friend, chef and budding new food stylist, Sarah Simms Hendrix of La Femme Epicure. We tested several…
Food Styling Tips – How to “Grill” Food without a Grill and make Bacon Ribbons
How many recipes do you have that involve grilling food? It’s summer time, so chances are you’ve got several. I’m going to show you how easy it is to get the grilled look without busting out the grill for your photo shoots with these food styling tips. Then I’ll show you a super quick and…
Easy Refrigerator Pickle Recipes – and How I Photographed Some of Them
What kind of pickles do you like? I love the tart, vinegary kind – not the sweet ones. A good friend of ours gave my boyfriend a great cookbook for his birthday. It’s called, “This is a Cookbook, Recipes for Real Life”. That was my inspiration for making pickles. They have some super easy pickle…
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