58 minutes of video
58 minutes of audio
24 slides
22 pages of transcripts
While speaking at the International Food Bloggers Conference, I picked up a couple cool styling things there that I show you this webinar, but we primarily focus on the concept of the still life and how to take age-old painting techniques into your photography to create amazing shots for Instagram and beyond.
You’ll learn food photography and more: this week we’ll cover staging, lighting, and how to create posed shots of everything except people on your trips.
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Sometimes you take a quick picture just to remind yourself of something later.
Other times you’re trying to get a personality shot of a guide or other person talking to your group—snapping shot after shot on sports mode like an event photographer and hoping some of them will have usable poses, hands that aren’t in motion, and eyelids that aren’t unattractively half closed (though zombies are very popular these days on television, not so much in blogs and magazines!)
And yet other times, you’re seeking that stealth shot of a local in a location you’re visiting—trying to capture that ephemeral sense of place with your lens on the sly so that you don’t insert the notion of observation into the atmosphere, which inherently changes what your subjects do.
It should be a relief when we have the time and wherewithal to compose our shots, whether of prepared food, architecture, or a simple street scene like a red bike balanced against a wall with those quintessential green Italian shutters freshly painted behind it.
While it may be the phone-photography and social-sharing “instant” effect, you don’t often see the difference you would expect that time and opportunity to compose oneself and one’s shot in a lot of photos these days.
Which is unfortunate. Because it doesn’t take that long!
It’s a matter of learning the principles that have guided artists since the Golden Age of Greece (well, with an ~1,000-year blip for the dark ages of course!) that still make idea composition today.
(Yes, there’s more to learn than the rule of thirds!)
In this webinar, from our retreat house in the Catskills in advance of the winter 2018 IdeaFest, on Plating, Staging and Food Photography: Bringing Still Lifes to Life.
I recently spoke at the International Food Bloggers Conference and picked up a couple cool styling things here that I’ll show you, but we’ll primarily be focusing on the concept of the still life and how to take age-old painting techniques into your photography to create amazing shots for Instagram and beyond. You’ll learn food photography and more: this week we’ll cover staging, lighting, and how to create posed shots of everything except people on your trips.
We will cover:
– What is missing from my (our, everyone’s!) photos now?
– “Art” approaches to successful still lifes
– Food (and things) styling secrets
