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Which camera?
Canon Eos 5D mark II A lot of people ask me what kind of camera they should be buying to take good foodphotos. While that might sound like a simple question, it is not! Ofcourse I can all tell you to...
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Foodphotography; controlling the light
Egg sandwich with radish and rocket I get questions on a regular basis on the specifics of how I take my photos and how I light the scene.. Today is a very cold day and not really suitable to go...
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Foodphotography;shooting at night or in low light
Taken with two small halogen lights For today’s post I am gonna try and explain how you can solve some of the problems that occur when shooting in low light or at night. Especially at this time of year...
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How to… shoot a baby
The other day I was tweeting along happily and mentioned that I was going to be doing a babyshoot later that day. Mona, from the fabulous WiseWords, reacted if I could maybe write something about...
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Spiced nutty apple-pear cake
Pretty bundt cake I made this pretty moist and delicious bundt cake this afternoon. It came out of the oven around 4.30 pm, then had to cool and by the time I wanted to take a photo there was no light...
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Aperture and DOF – foodphotography exercise I
Aperture 5.6 left and 13 on the right Whenever I give a workshop, it turns out that aperture and in general lighting is one of the most confusing things about photography. It doesn’t help that all...
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Working with studio strobes – not as scary as you’d think
During the workshops I give and also through email a lot of people ask me how to work with artificial lights. Now I love daylight and it would probably always be my preferred lightsource but in a lot...
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Shooting fast or how to work with shutterspeed
This post has previously been posted on Scribbles and Notes When you talk about food photography the shutterspeed is not really relevant most of the time, at least not when you’re working with a tripod...
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Working with artificial lights – part I Diningroom lights
This one is taken by daylight to have a comparison.. Now that the light is already starting to dwindle earlier in the day taking a photo of your food after you had your dinner is starting to become...
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Working with artificial lights part II – the desklight
Endresult with standard desklight For the second episode of the working with artificial light series I wanted to see how far I would get with any regular office light or reading light. I didn’t really...
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Food photography class
After reading something on Lara Ferroni’s blog Stillife with…. I had to check out something she posted on a foodphotography class that was going to be online. Now you have to know that it is extremely...
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The art of editing food; editing small flaws
Before and after Let me begin by saying that I am absolutely no expert when it comes to editing things in photoshop, but I can do the basics. In general I believe in the idea to make sure you shoot...
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Behind the scenes…
Ollie at work preparing the dish Me at work I’ve been so busy with setting up the new website that I hardly have had time to shoot any food. Most of the stuff is working now, with a few minor...
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Photography terms explained
So what are all those terms such as aperture, shutterspeed, iso and what on earth are they used for?? To start off, I will give some basic information on what it is. How you can use it will follow in a...
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How to: Shoot a cake
I am not sure when the whole photographing a cake-thing started, but I believe it was after I had done a course in decorating cakes at Oldenhof in Hilversum. I got so enthusiastic that I started...
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Daylight tips & tricks
What is cheaper and more readily available then good, old daylight? And it’s a lovely light for food photography, so if you’re on a tight budget or just want to start simple, choose daylight!! Now one...
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Composition & angle
Once you have figured out how to improve on your lighting skills there is another element that will have a major impact on how your final photo looks and that is the composition and the angle in which...
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Chocolate chestnut cake and shooting dark
I don’t actually shoot a lot of dark photos or maybe I should say that I didn’t shoot many dark photos, as I do seem to do quite a fair bit of them lately. It could be the time of year. What better...
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