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Thursday 13 September 2012

A Food Photography Workshop

Chapter Five - Food Bloggers and the Photography Workshop

Good photographs are essential for a successful food blog, so the Food Photography session at the Taste of Ayrshire Food Bloggers Conference was eagerly anticipated.

Darren McKean of Fiona McKean Photography took us through a rough guide to the equipment that would help us take better photographs.  These included covering a piece of card with tin foil or using a piece of white polystyrene as a light reflector as you can see in the photograph above, and yes, that is me!  Thanks to Louise at Please Do Not Feed the Animals for sharing her photograph with me.

Here are a few of the other tips that Darren shared with us:

  • When food styling use the colour wheel to find opposite colours.  There are online versions such as colourschemedesigner.com which can can help you choose good colour combinations.
  • Keep a styling box with a variety of boards, plates, cutlery.  Bargains can be found in supermarkets, charity shops and Ā£1 shops.
  • When taking photos of food where you have wet or sticky hands, wrap your camera in cling film 

Darren tried hard to explain camera settings to us and I picked up the following:
  • Use ISO 1600 or above for indoor shots
  • Aperture = depth of field, the higher the number the greater the depth of field
Probably the most important tip that I learned from the session was to get the shoot area, your props and your camera set up, then prep your food, do a test shoot, then finally the food shoot.

This is the final chapter from the Food Bloggers Conference, many thanks to Lisa Tennant of Taste of Ayrshire for organising the event, to Ayr Racecourse for hosting and to all the contributors who were generous with their time and talents. I really enjoyed meeting the bloggers with special thanks to Jacqueline from Tinned Tomatoes and Louise from Please Do Not Feed the Animals for sharing their photographs with me.

Goodie Bag
Focus on the oatcakes

Focus on the cheese
Thanks also for the goodie bag containing a piece of Barwheys Fine Ayrshire Cheese, it was just as cheese should be, sharp and tangy.  To complement the cheese was a pack of Wooleys Traditional Oven Baked Arran Oatcakes, a firm and well fired oatcake I really enjoyed.  My husband was particularly impressed by the Threepwood Fayre, Orange and Lime Fondant Creams.

If you have missed the other posts from the conference you can find them here:
Chapter 1 - Sustainability, Seasonality and Ethical Purchasing
Chapter 2 - Food Bloggers do Social Networking
Chapter 3 - Food Bloggers go to Ayr Races
Chapter 4 - How to improve your blog writing

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7 Comments:

At 14 September 2012 at 20:10 , Blogger Chris Half said...

Thank you for sharing all this, Janice! I would love to attend such an event, too, one day.
But first, I hope I get the chance to work on my food photography shooting area and things like that ...

 
At 14 September 2012 at 22:17 , Blogger Galina Varese said...

Sounds like a good photo session with tips, Janice.

 
At 15 September 2012 at 07:47 , Blogger Chele said...

I really wanted to go to the conference for this workshop alone. Great post.

 
At 15 September 2012 at 11:05 , Anonymous Fiona Maclean said...

I really appreciate you sharing what you learnt! next time I'm on that train up north!

 
At 16 September 2012 at 15:06 , Blogger Karen S Booth said...

THANKS so much for sharing this with us Janice! I am booked in for artificial light photography at FBC, so I will make sure I share all I learn there too! KAren

 
At 29 May 2013 at 14:11 , Anonymous Mike said...

Love your blog! I've been looking for some inspiration online for my food and product photography and this has really helped so I just wanted to say thank you!

 
At 29 May 2013 at 19:35 , Blogger Janice said...

Glad it helped you Mike, it made me have another look and there is still lots I need to learn.

 

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