Category: Food Photography
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Watermarking Your Images
Most professional photographers out there put some sort of transparent-ish watermark on their images when posting them to the web. It’s one of the few, albeit not necessarily fool-proof, ways…
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STW Flickr Challenge for March: Who Inspires You?
First, I have to say WOW for last month’s Splish-Splash, Drip-Drop theme. Tons of great photos were submitted, and it was good to see some feedback from folks other than…
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Designing Food: An Interview with Lisa Golden Schroeder
Dessert Parfait Photo © Mike Jensen Taste of the NFL cookbook, a fundraiser for hunger relief Styling by Lisa Golden Schroeder For quite some time now, Lisa Golden Schroeder, one…
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Strobist On Assignment: Mac & Cheese
If you spend much time looking at photo related blogs, you’ve probably already stumbled across Strobist, one man’s terrific attempt to teach flash photography from start to finish. This site…
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STW Challenge for February: Splish-Splash. Drip-Drop.
I have many ideas for upcoming Still Life With challenges. But I couldn’t resist making February’s challenge all about messy, moving food when I saw this little clip on DIY…
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Last Call for Still Life With White Theme!
We’re on our last couple days for the White theme. Due to travel on my part, I’m giving everyone till Friday to get their white images in… then I’ll be…
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Stupid Ice Tricks
I saw this food styling technique in Food & Wine a few issues back, and absolutely loved it… cool shapes of ice with a frozen treat inside. Brilliant, and so…
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Workflow, Take Two: Shooting Tethered and Capture One
One of my early posts on Still Life With walked through my workflow of taking food shots in my studio (ie, my kitchen). Well, I recently realized how much a…
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STW Challenge for January: White
Maybe it’s all the snow and clouds my holiday was filled with. Maybe it’s all the powdered sugar I consumed. Maybe it’s just the idea of newness and freshness that…
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My Guide to Food Photography Gear
It must be the holidays! I’m getting tons of requests for lighting and camera recommendations, so I thought perhaps I should do a little post on my gear and photo-centric…
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Sweep & Float
One common technique for still life and product photography is floating the subject on a background, usually a single color and often white or black. These images are then easily…
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STW Challenge for December: Tradition
November’s challenge for fall was full of great autumnal shots… warm dishes with rich warm tones, bushes of pears and apples and gorgeous looking pastries, not to mention some pretty…