As there will be an enormous expense for the in-person workshop, there are no guarantees for that but please know that Christina has been doing workshops for 8 years and has glowing reviews from all of those – see some testimonials below this FAQ.

If you purchased the digital workshop version, there is a 6 month guarantee. That’s right 6 months. Most programs give a 30 day guarantee. We realize that you have a lot going on and it might take you some time to actually dive into the workshop. So that’s why we are making our guarantee 6 months. If after 6 months you are completely unsatisfied with the digital version of the workshop, just email Christina for a full refund.

We require a minimum of 14 days cancellation notice before the event, otherwise you will have to find someone to buy your ticket for you or you will not be refunded for the event. We are producing this event at a huge expense so we cannot afford any last minute cancellations.

You will have lifetime access to the digital workshop. It will be housed on the Food Photography Club website.

Perfect! If you don’t have a camera yet, Christina will let you know what are the most important settings to look for when picking out a camera for photographing food.

If you are attending the in-person workshop, Christina will have several cameras available for the student project shooting portion of the workshop at no additional cost to you.

Perfect! If you hate your current camera or lens, Christina might show you some settings on your camera to make you love it again. If you really just want a new camera or lens, Christina will let you know what are the most important settings to look for when picking out a camera and/or lens for photographing food.

Many students have come to Christina’s workshops in the past thinking their camera was broken and it just turned out that one setting was set to something that made it very difficult to take pictures. The goal here is to teach you how to use what you have. Not to up-sell you into spending more money. Honestly there are awesome cameras that are $400. So, unless your camera is 15 years old, chances are, Christina can make your camera work for you.

If you are attending the in-person workshop, Christina will have several cameras available for the student project shooting portion of the workshop at no additional cost to you. So you can try out a new camera or new lens.

Christina will have the following equipment at the event for you to use for your student project (students will not all be shooting at once so there is plenty of gear to go around):

• Canon Rebel T5i
• Canon 5D Mark II
• Canon 5D Mark III
• Canon 7D mark II
• Nikon D3300 with the 18mm-105mm zoom lens
• Canon 50mm lens
• Canon 17-40mm lens
• Canon 24-105mm lens
• Canon 100mm lens
• Olympus Mirrorless OM-D camera with the 12-40mm zoom lens
• Three professional tripo

This is the first time Christina is offering this. For everyone who is buying either event, you will have your own, private Facebook group for one year. So if you have question along the way, Christina will support you. So you won’t be left on your own as you go through the workshop.

Christina has a lot of food allergies too. After you sign up, Christina will be sending you some surveys asking you about your food preferences. She gets it. Christina is gluten free, dairy free, and soy free. So please, know she will do what she can to accommodate your needs.

If your allergy is very severe, Christina can’t guarantee the restaurants we have food catered from doesn’t have cross contamination. So in this case, you might need to bring your own food as a back up, just in case.

As soon as you register, Christina will send you info via email for hotel information. Culver City is a small little town a few miles inland from Marina Del Rey – Venice Beach area. There is one hotel in Culver City that is an historic property that is great, the rest of the hotels Christina will recommend will be in Marina Del Rey. When she has clients fly in to shoot with her, this is the list they get.

No you don’t. You will be flying into LAX. From there you’ll take a taxi, uber, or Lyft to your hotel. Christina will be suggesting some hotels close by so you can hire a car service each day to come and go. It will probably be cheaper to do that than rent a car as some hotels charge an outrageous fee to park your rental car there.

No you can’t. We are filming almost the entire event. So any questions you ask in class will be recorded because chances are you will have the same questions as a lot of people. Every participant will have to sign an event release in order to come to the event. During the student projects we will be shooting still images of that, probably not a lot video. All of the presentations will be filmed. We get it. If you don’t want you or your voice to be on the recording, you should probably buy the digital version instead.

You sure do. Every live event that Christina does requires a model/event release to be signed by every participant. We will be selling this recording so if you are uncomfortable with possibly being seen or heard on camera, you should probably buy the digital version of the workshop instead. If you sign up for the in-person event, and don’t sign our release, you will not be allowed in the studio.

We are filming this live event in order to sell a digital version of it. We’ve had over 300 people sign up to be on our wait list for the workshop so we will sell out that live event.

We will be using anything we film or photograph to create marketing materials for future events and for selling the digital event.

If you are not comfortable with possibly being seen on camera, you should probably not come to the live even and buy the digital version instead.

Any images that the students create in class will always remain their content and they retain copyright of their content at all times.