Mixing flash with natural light on a restaurant food photography shoot Following on from my previous post on mixing natural light with strobe in food photography. In that article I showed you how using strobe can freeze any motion within a food photo. This time I’m mixing flash with natural light the opposite way around, using the flash as the key … Read More
Mixing natural light with strobe in food photography
Mixing natural light with strobe to freeze movement in food photography Mixing natural light with strobe!!!? What is this witchcraft? Movement in food photography? Now I’m not talking about capturing the peas as they fall off your plate or your beautifully stacked chocolate chip cookies as they fall over, one more time. Sometimes there’s some fast action and excitement, kind … Read More
What’s in the bag
Taking a look at the photography equipment and what’s in the bag A question that gets asked very often. Which camera or lens should I use? I asked the same question. To be absolutely honest, there’s no answer to that question unless you add some parameters to it. What do you shoot? What’s your budget? Do you already have some equipment? … Read More
Let structure set you free with a tidy workspace
How I changed to a tidy workspace and why As the title of this post says, let structure set you free. There’s so much in those five words and I don’t remember who first said them, but I’m glad they did. Something I’ve believed for a long time but hadn’t fully applied it to life. It’s like putting your finger … Read More
The best lens for food photography
The Canon EF 24-70 f4L IS USM, the best lens for food photography What is the best lens for food photography? There is much debate within the photography industry, what is the best kit for this or the right way to do that. Everyone wants to chime in with their 2 pence worth. It’s all in a personal preference to a … Read More
Eat Street Shrewsbury
South to Shrewsbury for the Eat Street food market The winds whistled around the chimney pots of our little terrace. Storm Barney was passing through. The name conjures a cute and friendly bear in Yosemite National Park, apparently he was in a bit of a grump. Perhaps he should have stopped in at Eat Street for a bite. Nervous looks … Read More
A bakery for a day
A day at the award winning, Macclesfield bakery, Flour Water Salt I’d been a huge fan of Paul’s bread at Flour Water Salt, since I bought a couple of loaves during Rode Hall farm market. Me and bread have had quite the love affair all of my life. When it’s good, it’s oh sooooo good. Paul is easy to … Read More
Back Lighting for Food Photography
How to achieve back lighting for your food photography Hi gang, lets talk about back lighting today. One of the most used lighting techniques for food photography is back lighting. You may not have known it’s name, which frankly isn’t very snappy, but you will have seen it all over the show. So lets dive in and take a look … Read More
The Canon 6d, my low light solution?
Why and how did I choose the Canon 6d For quite a while now, I’ve been looking at getting a new camera body to accompany my Canon 1ds mk3. It was increasingly the case that I needed to be in the higher end of the ISO range for me to capture an image. The Canon 1ds mk3 isn’t really … Read More
The Dairy, Clapham, revisited
The second shoot for this Clapham visit, The Dairy by Chef Robin Gill Hey everyone. Following on from photographing Robin Gill’s The Delicatessens, I’ve now stepped next door to The Dairy. This is Sarah and Robin Gills first restaurant. So nice to feel the enthusiastic atmosphere and palatable buzz, which struck me last time I photographed The Dairy, is very much a … Read More