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Tag Archives: food photography
FOOD DEMO FOR LIGHTING CLASS
The assignment for the Photo 200A class is food. Specifically it is to produce a food shot that can be used as either an advertising style shot for a menu or for an editorial style shot as an illustration for … Continue reading
Class Demo: Food
Thursday (4/20) I did a demo of food photography for the Lighting Class. In a class lecture on the previous Tuesday we discussed plated vs. studio food issues and advertising vs editorial style shooting and I showed them a number of examples. The … Continue reading
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Trying to Make Lemons into Lemonade…
I’ve heard that the way to make God laugh is to tell Him your plans. There is sometimes a direct corollary to that in the photo world. This past week Cynthia and I were assigned a cover shot for an … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Ds MkII, Canon 5D Mk III, clients, food photography, photography, pizza, prime rib, problem clients, salad
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Interesting Composite Food Cover Shoot
We just completed an interesting Restaurant Guide cover shot for a Greek Restaurant. It had several issues to overcome. First was timing; through a snafu in scheduling, we got the go ahead late, running into several scheduling conflicts and finally … Continue reading
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Sometimes the Bear…
Among outdoorsmen there is an old saying… “Sometimes you eat the bear… sometimes the bear eats you.” It is not too much of a stretch to apply that to the commercial photography niche of food photography. If you are doing … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food photography, food retouching, photography, prep for food photography
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Last Shot Before Death Valley
My Landscape Class’s field trip to Death Valley kicks off tomorrow morning when we will all hit the road and head to a most unusual place. It is a place at once terrifying, especially if you were a person in … Continue reading
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Light and Leather… and a Hamburger…
OK, what can I say? The experiment with the silver jewelry hooked me big time. I went online to look at other photographers using the “Painting with Light” techniques and came across two practitioners of the arcane art: Harold Ross … Continue reading
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Tagged bowie knife, food photography, leather, painting with light, photography, Ruger Blackhawk, saddles, six-guns, Uberti Cattleman
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A True Team Food Shot
This past week saw a flurry of work since we shot two restaurants back to back with very tight deadlines. Each presented its own challenges but the first one resulted in a final image that was truly a team effort … Continue reading
Happy Valentines Day… Now Get to Work
Well, the last week was a busy one on with some “interesting” food shooting and some interesting classroom stuff. The food part has pictures so I’ll make you wait for that, and a little Valentines Day message at the end. … Continue reading
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Full of Beans in the Middle of Nowhere
It started out as a plan to produce a fun shot for the Sinclair-King collaborative food portfolio. The concept Cynthia had was to find a spot in the wilds where we could stage a campfire scene with beans in a … Continue reading
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Travels with Rocinante 