The Dairy part 1: On the road again

Chef Robin Gill, The Dairy street view

The Dairy. Early doors and southbound for London It’s been a fantastic summer this year and mine was made that much better by being invited down to Clapham, London, to create some beautiful commercial images for Head Chef, Robin Gill, at his amazing restaurant, The Dairy. They will be using these new images for a re-developed website which will be coming soon, … Read More

Creating food photography backgrounds

Lemon meringue tart

Making your own backgrounds for food photography Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well and enjoying your summer. The nice hot weather we’re enjoying in the UK right now, got me outside and away from the computer screen. I wanted to create my own backgrounds to shoot food photography. If you remember, a little while ago, I had a car … Read More

Purple food photography theme

Garlic on a rustic background

Purple is todays food photography theme Hi there, you may have guessed that today’s post is about food photography with a purple theme. Once again, keeping things simple and focused on the food. Continuing my idea of creating simple, colour themed, food photography, I chose purple this time. At first I thought I wouldn’t have much to choose from, then … Read More

Green Food Photography Theme

Cheshire Food Photography, green asparagus tips

Using a simple green colour theme in food photography Hi there and welcome back. Today I’m continuing with the coloured theme food photography, this time I had green for the subject colour. Again my brief was to photograph food in it’s natural form, but this time I chose green. There are many kinds of green fruit and vegetables to choose … Read More

Red food photography theme

Strawberries

Creating beautiful photography with red as a simple theme Hello, I hope you’re all well. Today I’d like to talk about keeping it simple and choosing a colour, in this case red, for your food photography theme. Red food As a photographer I find I can often make things far too complicated, so from time to time I like to … Read More

Macro extension tubes in food photography

Macro Extension Tubes & 85 1.2

Using macro extension tubes in food photography Welcome back, today we’re going to take a look at macro extension tubes and how they are helpful in food photography. Have you ever taken a photo of something and you found you couldn’t get as close as you’d like because the lens can’t focus so close to the  subject? You could step … Read More

Backgrounds for food photography

Rustic Background for French Onion Soup

The right background can make all the difference Today I’m writing about choosing a background for food photography. The right background doesn’t have to be expensive but it will make a big difference. Rustic backgrounds You’ve probably seen the crisp, clean backgrounds used for fine dining food photography, this is perfect when the dish is beautifully plated with nothing to … Read More