http://stilllifewith.com Food Photography Blog Thu, 08 May 2008 22:51:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Clearly, you guys love to post to the Flickr Group. And I love to see your work! But, I am quite behind given the number of photos posted in the last 2 months and a bit of a freak amount of work in my day job in April. This month, ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/05/08/stw-challenge-for-may-food-free-for-all/ Have you ever noticed little bits on your photos? Not the little crumbs from a cookie that help make the photo more real looking. But, little indiscernible dots or smudges or blobs that appear, usually if you are shooting something on a solid white background. That's dust. And, if you ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/05/05/spring-cleaning/ If you've ever done any research into food photography and styling, then you know how few and far between the guides are. There are a couple of books that focus on lighting and some of the basics of photography when it comes to food... almost a laughable number given the ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/05/05/food-styling-for-photographers/ Alanna, of A Veggie Venture, was nice enough to forward me this link to JPG magazine's recent Get Cooking challenge. This photo challenge will be open for one week and will close on April 16th. And one lucky photo challenge will be featured on the back page of the ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/04/10/cooking-with-jpg-magazine/ Wow. I am simply blown away by both the overall quantity and quality of the photos for March. You guys really have outdone yourself... and out done me, as I am very, very behind on my comments on all the wonderful shots submitted. On the positive side, I've carved out ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/04/04/stw-challenge-april-food-travel/ Well, since I seem to be so behind these days getting blog posts up (not to mention commenting on all of the absolutely incredible egg photos that came in this month), I thought I'd just pop in to give some link love to Kathy Casey's blog. Kathy Casey is a ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/31/more-behind-the-scenes/ I'm a bit late finding this, but if you haven't seen it yet, and were curious about how the relatively inexpensive Lowel Ego Lights worked for food photos, check out Steamy Kitchen's excellent post that shows how much difference they can make. Brilliant. http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/lowel-ego-lights/ This had me rolling on the floor laughing. First, I have to say... Wow... the new design of Dairy Today magazine rivals that of Donna Hay, which is simply dumbfoundingly-wonderful of its own right. Even better, there is video of the "model" cow's photoshoot in the post by Pentagram, the ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/ It sounds all so simple doesn't it... March's theme of Eggs. Much simpler, I suppose than last month's self portraits with food. There were some great entries, but I wish that we had seen a bit more of everyone! I know there are times when I have to be my ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/01/stw-flickr-challenge-for-march-eggs/ Photo from Cookbook Catchall I just stumbled across this fantastic behind the scenes look into Judd Pilossof's studio on Cookbook Catchall. Judd's work is beautiful, and everyone should be a little envious of Skrockodile for getting to sit in... but mostly grateful for the great write-up! I know I am more ... http://stilllifewith.com/2008/02/28/great-behind-the-scenes-looks/