Aged wood backgrounds really bring character to a food photograph. Sometimes I make my wood backgrounds and other times I hunt high and low for perfectly aged wood planks. In this post I will share with you my hunt for beautiful wood backgrounds. Now, please keep in mind I live in the Los Angeles area. This means I can't just go to the horse barn down the road and rummage around behind the barn … [Read more...]
How to Make Distressed Wood Backgrounds for Photo Shoots
Quite often I am asked where I get my backgrounds. Many of my surfaces are painted or stained wood. You don't have to be a woodworker to do this. I'll show you how easy it is. In this post I will show you how to distress wood with paint. After I had my materials, this took me about an hour to do both the wood plank surface, and the wood "wall". That's not water in the background - that's … [Read more...]