Food Photography Workshop
One area of photography that you may not know that I work in is food photography. You’ll rarely see any food photos on this blog but there’s plenty over at Sams Kitchen, which is the blog run by my wife Sam.
Sam is a food writer and recipe creator and also a darn good food photographer. Her work regularly appears in various foodie magazines as does her (and my) photos.
A few weeks back we ran a food photography workshop and will be running it again on the 13th June… Details of the next food photography workshop are here.
The workshop was aimed at bakers who wanted to improve their food photography and photographers who wanted to learn the real basics of how the camera worked whilst photographing some great looking baked goodies.
The day was great fun with Sam demoing various food set ups and style tips, whilst I ran around answering camera questions and running through some really quick and simple post processing trick in Photoshop Elements.
It was really great to see people getting excited about food photography and discovering how really simple changes in styling and shooting made huge improvements to the photos.
If you’d like to get involved in the next workshop visit www.samskitchen.net/?page_id=1682 for more information.
G’day
Taking good food pictures is a real challenge. My only experience, apart from numerous wedding cakes, was in photographing a cooked turkey as a commission for a studio I worked with in Sydney. We actually had to construct like a translucent tent around it and light it from the outside. I was an all-day event.
Sam’s results are really good and the choice of the wooden base sets thing off in a very pleasing manner. Thank you for posting this.
Barry from Tassie.