I think that one of the most common questions I get is how do I position my lights to get my food shots. There are simple answers, but they aren’t complete because different moods call for different lighting, and different situations only allow for so much futzing with lamps. In particular, when you are in […]

It’s a little late, but if you are in Sonoma County this weekend, there is a Food Photography Weekend Workshop this Saturday and Sunday (May 20 & 21, 2006) that I just stumbled onto in Craig’s List.
Instructor Cosimo Bargellini graduated in Art History from the University of Florence. He has had experience in theatre […]

Photodot has a great repository of customer reviews of lenses, primarily Nikon and Canon. If you are in the market and are looking for reviews, it’s much better than spending hours google searching or poking through the forums. Or, if you have your own rants and raves about lenses you’ve been using, it’s a great […]

I spend a lot of time fine tuning my images for my blog to get them to achieve the right balance of color and light. While it’s certainly not the hours that some professionals spend, it’s still probably the most time consuming part of food blogging for me (with the exception of some of the […]

This 6-day IACP (International Association of Culinary Professional) workshop combines a tour of the best of food and wine in Australia with classes on the Australian style food photography. If you happen to have $1800 (plus airfare and accommodations) that you need to invest in a little learning, this looks like an amazing trip. The […]

Bea, of La Tartine Gourmande got to spend the day in a professional photo shoot of her food stylings, and has an excellent write-up (as she always does) of her experience… what it’s like to move from the world of snapshots in the kitchen to a full blown studio. I am very envious!
Technorati Tags: Food, […]

The Guardian Observer, along with Seeds of Change, is hosting a food photography competition with prizes up to £10,000. The goal is to impress the judges with your creativity, and with three categories to play with… Food and People, Food and Thought, and Food, Glorious Food… there are lots of opportunities to come up with […]

If you’ve ever been on a diet, you know this trick. A small plate makes the food look bigger.
In food photography, this trick is one of my favorites. I discovered it pretty much by accident… looking back through my food photography references, no one really addresses the proportion of the food to the plate in […]

Thanks for those of you who participated in last month’s Macro Food challenge on flickr. There were some great shots, including this gorgeous cucumber, which was perhaps my favorite. Today marks a new month, and a new challenge.
This month, I got inspired by Chez Pim’s post a week ago about “the ugliest food photo ever.” […]