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How to hire a professional photographer | Part 3

This is the third and final part of my series running through how to hire a professional photographer for your business and project. Today I’ll cover working within your budget and actually meeting your photographer. You can also see Par...

How to hire a professional photographer | Part 2

Continuing my 3 part series on how to find your photographer. Today I’m going to cover what to look for and how to find someone who is compatible with your business and brand. Then moving on to making contact and being as clear as possib...

How to hire a professional photographer | Part 1

Part 1 of 3 of how to hire a professional photographer Not all photographers are equal When someone buys a camera, they are a camera owner. A photographer works hard to learn and master their craft of photography, using any camera. Befor...

10 Tips To Capture A Perfect Pour Shot In Food Photography

Top 10 Pour Shot Tips Have you ever wanted to know how to get a great pour shot? Today I’m going to share my 10 tips to help you get better shots pouring deliciousness into your food photography. Disclaimer I’ve said it before on here an...

JT’s 12 Days Of Christmas with Tundra

12 Days of Christmas, Day 12 Here we are at the end of my look back at 2018. Thank you for coming along for my reminiscing ramblings. My final post in this series has to be about the most magical creature I have ever known. Tundra, our b...

JT’s 12 Days of Christmas at Storyhouse Chester

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 11 You may or may not know, but I really love the performing arts. I love to work with all kinds of performers and I am blessed to have incredible dancers as friends. In 2018 I got to kind of combine my restaura...

JT’s 12 Days of Christmas with a Cocktail

12 Days of Christmas, Day 10 Happy New Year!!! I would like to wish you all the most magnificent 2019 and may it bring you all the very best life can give. One of my goals for this year is to do more personal projects which really go t...

JT’s 12 Days of Christmas Pouring Cocktails

12 Days of Christmas, Day 9 We’re back on the booze in Whitchurch today at Docket No.33. I’d been wanting to get back to Docket No.33 for a while and we were due for a menu update shoot. My buddy Brian was also taking the new Canon EOS R...

JT’s 12 Days with Personal Projects

12 Days of Christmas, Day 8 It’s New Year’s Eve and nearly time for your goals for the coming year to kick in. One of mine is to take on more personal projects, like this one I shot. We took a trip down to Ludlow in Shropshire and one of...

JT’s 12 Days Of Christmas Travel Photography Ludlow

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 7 I’ve always wanted to incorporate more travel photography into my work. Let’s face it, travel and food go together like peas and carrots, or salted caramel and chocolate brownie. In fact, there are very few as...

JT’s 12 Days with The Oxford Blue Pub

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 6 Hi everyone. How are the Christmas holidays for you? It’s that waistline recovery time before we head into 2019. I really hope you’ve been having a delicious time. Today I’m trundling back to Old Windsor and ...

JT’s 12 Days with Icelandic Horses

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 5 How are you all doing over this holiday season? Christmas is behind us and the New Year beckons. This time last year I got chatting to my good friend Brian Worley about going on a photo adventure. Everyone see...

JT’s 12 Days with Phil Howard at Elystan Street

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 4 Welcome back to my 12 Days of looking back at 2018. I hope you’re all having a super delicious and relaxing Christmas break. Today I’m heading back to shooting for Art Culinaire Magazine with the awesome Phil...

JT’s 12 Days at Docket No.33

12 Days Of Christmas, Day 3 Welcome back to my 12 Days of looking back on 2018 and today I’m revisiting the Whitchurch restaurant, Docket No.33. Fine Dining Comes To Whitchurch A beautiful new bistro restaurant opened in Whitchurch, Shr...

JT’s 12 Days with the Lastolite Vintage Background

12 Days of Christmas, Day 2 I hope your Christmas is totally delicious and you’re having a great time. In today’s look back at 2018, I’m reminded of the day I went down to Windsor to create some restaurant food photography for a Lastolit...

JT’s 12 days with Clare Smyth at Core and Art Culinaire Magazine

12 Days of Christmas, Day 1 Hey everyone, a very Merry Christmas to you. Welcome to day 1 of my 12 Days of Christmas where I’ll be choosing one photo from 2018 and sharing a little of the story behind it. Today we’re shooting for Art Cul...

Using The Best Focus Point In Food Photography

Which focus point in food photography Hi everyone, I’m back with another food photography tips post and this time on how to use and choose all those focus points in your food photography. I’ll talk about autofocus points, single focus po...

Canon EOS R For Food Photography

My Initial Thoughts On The New Canon EOS R Mirrorless Camera Hello everyone and Happy Birthday to me 🙂 Yesterday I attended the Manchester Canon Full Frame Roadshow event where Canon was demonstrating most of their full frame cameras....

Camera Mode & Food Photography

What is the best camera mode for food photography? Hi guys, I thought I’d continue with some food photography tips, which comes under the best camera settings for food photography kind of heading.  This is mostly for beginners so if you...

New Vintage Popup Background From Lastolite

The New Popup Vintage Background From Lastolite Hey folks, I hope you’re all well and making the most of the end of summer, or looking forward to the beginning of Spring on the other side of this wonderful planet. I’m very much looking f...

Cheshire Food Photography Event (Chester Zoo)

Friday’s Popup At Chester Zoo The sun had been master of our skies all week, baking the ground, turning Brits lobster pink and dogs walk around with lolling tongues. This has been a summer to remember. As Friday arrived there was a cha...

5 Reasons why you must always use a tripod for food photography

You must always use a tripod in your food photography, here’s 5 reasons why Hang on JT!! Just a minute.. Didn’t you write a post about how you should never use a tripod in food photography? Yep, I did. Here lies the paradox of creativit...

5 Reasons where and why you should never use a tripod for food photography

Where and why you should never use a tripod for your food photography Hey, hey, hey!!! JT’s getting controversial. I’d even go as far as to say feisty. Not really, just something that came to mind after I tripped over my tripod the other...

My Canon Radio 580 EXii flash for food photography

How to achieve Canon radio 580 EXii flash for food photography Good morning folks. Today I’m sharing with you how I’ve come to have Canon Radio 580 EXii flashes. I’m often asked what I use for lighting in my food photography. The first l...

Using your body in food photography

How using your body helps in the creative process Hi everyone. I recently read Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon. You need to read this great little book. There’s a part of the book that struck a cord for me at that moment. Here’s ...

Restaurant photography: Action shots in the kitchen

Capturing action shots in restaurant photography One of my favourite parts of restaurant photography is capturing some of the kitchen action, especially when the chefs are at full steam. The kitchen is where some glorious moments live. I...

Lighting behind the scenes: One light on location

Personal project behind the scenes with a one light setup, on location Hi gang, something a little different today. I’m sharing a simple one light setup which I recently used to great effect on a personal project with dancer Nicolette Wh...

The Lastolite Ezybox Octa

Beautiful light comes in octagonal form with the Lastolite Ezybox Octa Hi gang, I want to share with you my recent discovery for creating beautiful light, anywhere you like, with the Lastolite Ezybox Octa. I’ve been able to create a very...

12 tales from behind the lens #12 “The Oxford Blue”

The final day of 12 tales from behind the lens with The Oxford Blue Pub Hi folks, so here we are at the end of my 12 quick snippets of 2016. What a way to close off 2016 than with 3 days of shooting at The Oxford Blue Pub in Old Windsor....

12 tales from behind the lens #11 “Nicolette Whitley”

Day 11 of 12 tales from behind the lens with Nicolette Whitley It’s another photo which you may not expect from me. No food in sight, although Nicolette Whitley is a big lover of food and keeps a close eye on her nutrition as a dancer. I...