Shooting glassware on white background: high-key in product photography

Do you remember how I treat device called shooting tent or lightbox? Every time readers were asking about lightbox (light tent, shooting box, etc) I was saying that it is very limited and useless thing in our studio.
But now you can see yourself what unprincipled person I am: I just finished a shoot completely done

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Food photographer in Atlanta: chicken wings, photographer, stylist and a sauce:-)

restaurant menu photography

Last week I had a great opportunity to work on a very interesting project: a food photoshoot for Jante Glen and his Wing City2City Take-Out Restaurant.
Jante  has this great idea of very simple and inexpensive Take-Out restaurant with more money spent on the quality of the food instead of workers, the building and silverware.

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Food photography with Shirley O. Corriher.

food photography Shirley O.Corriher cooking

This is a half a year old photo-shoot, but I would like to share the outcome here, the post is following this ONE. I was not able to release the details of the shot due to a restriction from a client, and now they seems to be OK with it :-)

Shirley Corriher the one of

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History of the photograph and drawing

atlanta photographer water splash-hi-speed photography

I have this photo, water on an apple splash:

I’ve done it 2 years ago, while playing with  Canon Speedlight strobes: that time we did not have much assignments and I spend time in studio exploring new techniques, a lot of resulting photos found a place in  our stock collection.

I was surprised when Cheryl Church (www.cherylchurch.com)

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Photography for packaging: simple steps on how to have it done right

Atlanta product photography: grill press as-is image

About 30% of studio work  I do is for packaging, and  I would like to share what I have learned.
Simple tips and rules  on how to make product look best on a package. Shooting  product for a package sometimes is very similar to a catalog photography, or for a web (except resolution). However, there are

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Kitchen for food photographer: shiny and new!

One of food images for Bakewise book

We always had a kitchen in the studio, but was never actually shooting in it. It was mainly used for food preparation and styling, occasional party cooking, etc.  When I worked with Shirley Corriher, for a first time (see the result) , we used a kitchen a lot, most of  the cakes, biscuits and other

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Liquid Photography: Pouring beer shot video

This is a video for my recent post, where I shot a glass of beer:

Enjoy!

New Assignment: Beer, pouring beer and packed beer photographed.

Pouring beer image

Do you like a beer? I do,  a lot :-).  Recently we met Jason,  co-owner of a new Atlanta  brewing company called Back Forty Beer Company.    This is how we got our new assignment: Beer and packaging shoot of “Naked Pig” ale:

The ale is really good, we have enjoyed it’s rich taste  after each

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Water splash photography (water splash with berries and apple)

Water splash photography with fruits

Once again we were playing with water and fruits. Small inflated pool, 3 Canon Speedlite Flash units and some handy support hardware makes it possible. Around 1/10.000 second flash duration can freeze any splash, only you need to worry about is a light distribution: reflectors and white backdrops are must to be here.
I was

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Chocolate cake for a food stock photography

A cake from a Whole Foods Grocery, same technique as we have used HERE, except white background. White because it was for a microstock, as they like products on a white. Start feeling that we’ll need to shoot more like this, as these images age quite popular on iStock and Shutterstock.

Water strawberry splash: stock photography photoset.

Some examples oh high-speed photography we did a while ago. I have used 3 Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash units, synchronization was done by hand:-)

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III camera, manual shooting mode, 1/250 sec, F4.5. Shutter speed does not really matter, as actual flash duration was about 1/3000 sec.

Do you like the result? Let

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water, water, everywhere.. Food and drink photographer.

We are continue to shoot water.. when we got time for this.
Below are some of the results:

Same setup, just trying to be more creative.

Water photography setup:-)

Have decided to try micro-stock agencies, like Shutterstock.com and iStock.com. Loaded several photos, mostly water splashes I did a while ago. So far Shutterstock.com is the best, it start producing a revenue from the fist day. Not much, but considering that I have just a few photos there, it looks promising.
So, it appeared that I

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Mexican food, shooting for mexican restaurant. Food photographer.

Food photography

This is was one of the most pleasant photo sessions we’ve had. The client, Shirley Corriher, with her crew were very interesting people to works with, they did an amazing job creating this art of food pieces. You won’t believe, but all of these cakes are real (fake foods used a lot in a food

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