food & lifestyle photographer, workshop teacher
To get rid of that chalky, scuffed look on chocolate, use a heat gun on low. Be careful, though- you don’t want to scorch your chocolate! Go slow and keep a distance of about a foot or so between the chocolate and the gun. Easy-peasy, right? Pro-tip: make sure you don’t have any strategically placed […]
I’m not going to lie– I am cringing a bit, writing this post. But I believe in keeping it real and the fact is that there are many, MANY photos from early in my food photography career that I cannot even stand looking at. All I can see with many of those early shots is […]
Clam chowder shot two ways: on the left- ladled right out of the pot, on the right- styled for a photograph. Both have almost the same props, the same light and both are edible. There is nothing fake in that second shot, as much as people like to think professional food photography involves inedible food. […]
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