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Observer Food Photography Competition
The Observer, along with Seeds of Change, is hosting a food photography competition with prizes up to £10,000.
You need to impress! They have set up three categories: Food and People, Food and Thought, and Food, Glorious Food. So plenty of opportunities for demonstrating your creativity. Entrants can submit up to 5 photos per category, and short listed exhibitors will receive a subscription to Practical Photographer magazine. UK only I believe.
Entries are due by June 30th, and can be submitted on-line. ...
Food in black and white
I am not good at black and white images. It might be because it is colour that first attracted me to photography in the first place - I think and see in colour and not in terms of tone and shade. Of course I can fully appreciate those that have more success.
I was interested, therefore, in Still Life With... 's latest flickr theme. Some of the images so far submitted to the group are stunning. I love the reflections on Sam's picture of a knife and cheese and the pears by stieglitz. (Any thoughts on my efforts?)
Still Life With... is all about food photography. Everyday we see glorious images of food in full colour. Do they work in black and white as well? ...
Food Photography Course in Italy
For all you budding foodporn snappers - how about a holiday (sorry, vacation) in Tuscany taking pics of food.
Thanks to Still Life With... for the details. You can have, in exchange for $2950, 5 nights and 4 days at il Bareto, 14 kilometers southwest of Siena in Italy. Each day an indepth look at a different aspect of food photography and cooking is covered. The course is run by Ignacio Urquiza (aka Nacho) who is an established photographer with over 60 books under his belt, including several award winning cookbooks. Details in the downloadable brochure, ...
Food Photography Blogs
Slashfood has just detailed the Michael
Ray Foodblog. It is not really a blog - no comments/feedback, chronological organisation etc etc. But what the Michael Ray Foodblog offers though is a collection of
interesting articles covering the capture of food photographs.
There is a set of
images covering the set-up for a food shoot - more tree/less tree, pot plant/no pot plant. Each image has comments
on the photographers thought process with each prop tweak or lighting change. The basics are covered well including lighting setups to reveal texture
and the related subject of sheen and reflections.
On the same theme, Still Life With, (and this is a proper blog) offers plenty of tips on food photography
tips. Recent posts cover selecting a tripod, HDR photography and Composition. I actually prefer this blog to
the Michael Ray one.
[Photo Andrew Barrow]
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A different kind of food photography
We've talked a lot about food photography here, or at least Andrew has.
Normally the idea of "foodporn" is to make the image look as appetizing, and food-like, as possible.
Photographer and illustrator Larry Knox, though, decided to play with his food in a different way. When commissioned to produce a low-budget cover for a War
of the Worlds reprint, He headed down to Philadelphia's Chinatown for inspiration, and came back with squid. It
actually turned out better than expected. A squid, a marble, a burner cover, and some hose, a couple of paint cans and
some candles actually make a pretty convincing, not to mention terrifying, alien destroyer. I can't wait to see the
finished illustration. My only question is: Larry, are you gonna eat that? [via BoingBoing] ...
Book Review: Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna
I don't think I have ever considered the changing nature of food photography until I brought
this book. It is a theme that runs throughout Digital Food Photography, understandable considering the
30 plus years the author has engaged in photographing food and drink. Manna has shot for Wine Enthusiast, Food Arts,
The New York Times, numerous cook books and packaging companies.
In the past the emphasis was on the props - more props than food in most cases. Images were also taken from the
perspective of the diner. Now close-ups, selective focusing, graphic and stylised images are the norm. These are
covered in some depth in Digital Food Photography.
The book is aimed at the beginner-intermediate level but I found some sections perfunctory and lightweight. The last
chapter for example that looks at setting up a business and selling pictures; other books cover this in quite some
depth so I wonder why they bothered to put such light weight stuff in.
The rest of the book is a joy though. A mass ...
Food-bloggers visit to pro studio
Well this puts my two spot-lights and a prop-box under the bed to shame; La Tartine Gourmande has spent a day at a professional food photographers studio.
Tartine Gourmande is one of the better written foodie sites out there with some cracking images to accompany. The write-up of her visit is interesting if you haven't seen or experienced a pro set-up. The direct camera to computer link is something all still-life photographers could all do with; not to mention the Hasselblad H1 medium format camera with a PhaseOne P25- 22 megapixel camera back attached.
What made me chuckle though was the improvised light covering stuck on with a bit of gaffer-tape and the tennis ball... ...
Flickr Group: Foodography 7
Regular readers will know that I have a bit of a thing with food. Oh and wine. My reintroduction to photogaphy was via food. Myself and food blogger Sam (Pecks and Posh) run a little monthly challenge, foodography, on flickr that covers the food and drink sphere of still life photography. If you would like to join in the current theme is Wine Bottle and Glass.
A simple enough subject you would have thought. I rummaged through various back issues of photo and food magazines and found little; even the selection of wine websites - retailers and producers - that I looked at was under-whelmed with the lack of creativity in their images. Plenty of plain and boring full bottles with label in full view but no inspiring 'life style' images that really sold the wine to me. Hence the creation of this flickr group. ...
New Photo Gallery Website
Famed food photographer and blogger Keiko has established a new site in which to demonstrate her
skills away from the food scene.
Not a huge number of photographs as yet on http://www.nordljus.co.uk/photo/ but each is unique and quite
inspiring in their own way. I was particularly taken with the cat in the bag image - near perfect focusing on the
eye. Basic EXIF data ia
available on each image if you are into reading that sort of thing. Keiko is Japanese residing in London. Her food
blog, again with plenty of stunning images can be seen at http://www.nordljus.co.uk/en/ ...
It's your weekly best of Weblogs, Inc.
The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week
across over 75 industry-leading blogs. Each week we ask our bloggers to choose their top posts, which we bring to you
in one easy-to-read weekly post. You'll find links to the hottest posts from the past week after the jump including a
review of Google Talk, the latest television spoilers and a Flash-based gas pump. But first up is our newest blog,
SlashFood. Enjoy.
Slashfood just opened for business, and we're already planning a
Grilled Cheese party. Plus
Karina Longworth makes fun of Gwyneth Paltrow's
junk food intolerance
and Keith McDuffee lists the
top 25 food hacks. ...
DPW 6 - Links for the Weekend
The latest flickr
based food still life Foodography photo challenge has been announced. This round has a theme of Green. [details]
Another food image flickr group has been set,
again with monthly themes. The first theme is Macro. [details]
Uniden's €99 5 megapixel digital
crapcam [engadget]
Web Gallery
Wizard gallery creator for websites free trial available [details]
PrinterSpot a new site offering printer reviews [website]
Scrapblog, a new, free Web application that merges scrapbooking
and blogging [website] ...
Does My Blog Look Good In This #11 - A Winner!
As I have just blogged about on sister-blog
SlashFood the winning
photos for this months Does My Blog Look Good In This have been
announced. This is an
amateur competition (no prizes) that draws in food and wine bloggers from across the globe.
Each month a different host organises five judges to award point under three categories - edibility, aesthetics and
originality. This time around the host was Moira of
Who Wants Seconds. She
and her selected judges award this excellent shot first place. Taken by
Lex Culinaria from Edmonton in
Canada using a Sony DSC S90. It is titled Wild Mushroom Ragout.
If you work your way through the entries many are very professional. These are all amateur food bloggers
remember. Surprisingly I came third with an image I am disappointed with (foreground too dark for starters)
and was only persuaded to enter it because of the strong back-lighting. ...
Still Life With...
If still life photography is your 'thang', and we are
talking food here again, then there are two flickr based challenges that might get those creative juices flowing.
Still Life With... has posted a
recipe on her blog (yep you have to make the dish) and set out the challenge to create a photo better than this one.
Appearing on the New York Times (registration required) the hideous styling has been dubbed the 'ugliest photo of food ever'. Can you do
better? It is going to be tricky arranging the cucumber, tuna, salad and croutons in a pleasing and appetising manner
but anything should be better than the NYT picture! [flickr
group]
The other group is run by myself and
Sam of food blog Becks and Posh. The challenge this month is to create
a series of three different images to highlight a brand. Obvioulsy you have to select the brand - it cold be Coca Cola,
a brand of knives, a range of sauces anything really. But with three creatively different images with the brand name to
the fore plus an area of space ...
Foodporn/Foodography
Despite being 'silly' (according to Joe in the comments to this post) I
think the aim of Foodography has been realised and has
produced some stunningly good images.
Take the one detailed here, just one of several images I am most impressed with. Not only has Lara been innovative on the food
side (Banana Sushi) the image could grace any of the top food magazine covers you care to mention. Taken with a
Canon EOS 20D with a 100mm lense at f/6.3 1/13 [more tech details]. And
the theme of Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit has been fully exploited too. Another of Laras images is also
excellent.
What do you think? A decent snap or the heights of foodporn?
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Three Quick Links
A 'fun toy' they proclaim it; I call it frightening! The ability to age a picture of a face... Face Transformer Ricoh have released a
new firmware version, 1.09, for the Ricoh GR Digital, an 8 megapixel compact digicam and for the Ricoh Caplio R3, a 5
megapixel compact camera. Ricoh Downloads. Amateur food
photographers may be interested in the flickr group Foodography. Now moving on to round 2 with Dairy as the
theme. ...
