(Don’t forget to enter Lou Manna’s “Best Looking Food of 2009 contest” to win everything you could possibly need for food photography! See my previous post for details. Contest ends February 16th, 2009) You would think that I might have all sorts of time to dive back into food photography now that I have been laid...

What better way to start off the New Year than to strut your food photography stuff for Lou Manna! Lou is running a fantastic contest he is calling the “Best Looking Food of 2009 contest” that offers the winning entry the following most fantastic swag! Olympus E-520 camera kit Kingston memory cards Calumet lighting kit complimentary admission to a Digital...

(Dark and delicious BBQ’d and smoked pork butt) I am sorry that the next class in this series has taken so long to produce. Today I am going to step away from technical and aesthetic foci, be a bit less formal and try to tackle some of the challenges of shooting BBQ’d foods and scenes...

Copyright Lou Manna All Rights Reserved If you want to take your photography to the next level where you are using more than ambient light, where you are using strobes, then professional food photographer Lou Manna can be your gentle guide. As I mentioned previously, you can register for this course through Workshops@Adorama. The next class,...

I thought I was blocked before, the hacking didn't help matters. I strongly urge you all to backup your databases and all blog related files. You wordpress people, you need to upgrade and not...

Today we have Curt’s post on his results from the 5th lesson in the Food Photo 101 class. I think he did a fantastic job! Read on and learn from Curt Finally, I have my results from Lesson 5 of Food Photo 101! I have to first say that having weekend time makes a big...

OK kiddies, I just wanted to share my excitement about this fantastic class I will be taking this coming Sunday in NYC. Lou Manna, food photographer extraordinaire, has been running food photography workshops for years and I have been wanting to attend one for years. Well, finally, I can afford to take one. This Sunday...

Before I get into the core of this lesson, I wanted to let you all know about a change to this course. To allow people more time to do these lessons, the timing has been changed (some of us do not have any light when we get home from work during the week!). I will publish a...

Welcome to everyone here in the new year, hope you all had great and festive holidays! I would like to thank all of you who entered your beautiful work, excellent jobs! I would also like to welcome the newly registered users, glad to have you all join! As mentioned previously (FP101 Holiday Contest Prize Announcement and Food Photo...

We have finalized the three prizes for First, Second, and Third places for the Food Photo 101 Holiday Contest (see details here “Food Photo 101 Holiday Contest” and “FP101 Holiday Contest Prize Announcement“). The cookbook “The Prairie Table Cookbook” by Bill Kurtis will be added to the first place prize. “From the Inside Flap The Prairie Table Cookbook...