You have a ton of options for artificial lighting these days, more than ever before. There are the very expensive pro, high end lights for $1000's of dollars, all the way down to a $20 softbox kit that's not worth the cardboard box it's shipped in. So how do you know what to get? The other confusing thing is that different countries have now outlawed some of our options. They try to do their … [Read more...]
Retouching a Food Shot – They make it look so easy!
Everyone has heard of Photoshop. I started using it in school in 1990 - version 2. Little did I know that my world of photography with film and my fabulous chemical darkroom containing potassium ferricyanide + many more gnarly chemicals (don't worry dad, I always wore a chemical respirator mask), would now be replaced with stupidly expensive digital cameras, a massive Mac tower … [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...]