So I completed the 30 days to Better Food Photography course and I can honestly say my food photos have improved massively. I’ve really started to analyse and understand why a food photo is good or bad, what elements need to be included, how to balance a scene and use the right props. I’ve also…
Back in the summer I discovered a little gem of a podcast called “So You Want To Be A Photographer”. It started in January 2015 and so I binge-listened to about 25 episodes from the beginning to catch up. It’s a treat to turn my iPod on every Thursday and download the latest episode from Gina…
From Tuesday 17th and for the following 10 days I will be posting some gift ideas that you might like to take a look at – either for yourself or for the photographer in your life. Check the new set of pages in the left hand menu bar which will start to appear from tomorrow (Tuesday…
It’s been another good week on the food photography course, and I managed to combine a foodie photo with the 52 Week challenge photo this week which was “Uniform” and set by me – here’s the shot again in case you missed it in my last post. I chose Uniform as the period covered Remembrance…
Into the third week of the food photography course (click link in left hand side bar to find out more) and we’ve moved on from photographic skills like depth of field and white balance and got into more of the styling and detailing aspects. First challenge for me this week was that I don’t have…
This is the second part of my series on the Mobile Creative, here’s the first if you missed it. Pixlr is a great app for simple processing of photos and also for getting more creative. Until recently it was my go-to app of choice, and still is for the more creative shots. The first thing…
With Halloween last weekend it was no surprise that the 52 Week theme for the week was something spooky, with Graveyard! This was taken as I described in my last post on White Balance. I popped over to the cemetery that is close to where I work on Wednesday lunchtime. After a few simple snaps,…
For throwback Thursday for October (couple of days late, I know), I’m going back to 2012 when we decided to go away for the autumn half term to Sorrento in Italy. Sorrento is famous for its olives, lemons and Limoncello liquer. It is also a great location if you want to visit Pompeii (below) or…
Half way through the 30 days to better food photography course now and it’s been another really enlightening week, why? Because we’ve dealt quite a bit with lighting. Looking at the direction of light, the use of reflectors and other modifiers and also playing around with white balance. All this while trying to stick to…
Theme for the week this week was Black Background so I thought I’d combine it with part of the food photography course that I’m doing at the moment. Black background is something that most people with a bit of control of their camera can achieve – and also something that you’ll never achieve if you…
I’d love to know what the older generation of photographers make of today’s mobile digital world. Technology has come a long way from the days of film and darkrooms to reach a point where virtually everyone has a camera with them virtually all of the time, through their phone. The quality of these cameras is…
OK so I’m one week into my 30 Days to Better Food Photography course and I’m really enjoying it. What’s been great so far? Well firstly the Facebook community. There are loads of people all taking the course together and so each night a new batch of photos go up where people show their response…
An exciting week this week as I started on a 30-day course to improve my food photography. I’ll cover the first week in more detail in my next post, but for today and my Shot of the Week (below) I want to talk a bit about High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. The human eye is…
Quick post today about the “Sunny 16 Rule” . . . Another rule of thumb that is often quoted is the “Sunny 16” rule which says that on a sunny day and with your aperture at f/16 your shutter speed should be the reciprocal of your ISO. So 1/100 at ISO-100, 1/200 at ISO-200 etc….