As I mentioned previously in the post titled “Food Photo 101 Holiday Contest“, we are running a holiday contest for Food Photo 101 participants who have signed up (using the contact form at the bottom of any FP101 post). The idea is to pay attention to white balance, exposure and aperture settings from lesson 1 and...

Whew, its been busy here and I bet it has been with you all too! We have been getting lots of excellent projects turned in for the first three assignments and then noticed some fall off this week. What this means to me is that its December and its distracting and we need a break...

Lesson 4 starts pushing us down the path of thinking about the subject of our photos instead of how we've set up our things around the subject. Previous lessons were about settings on the camera and lighting, but this time I had to actually think about what was in front of the...

(A PDF version of this lesson is available) As we have been talking about technical and practical details in the first three lessons, I thought I would take us in an artistic direction with this week’s lesson on Composition. What is Composition? This is a fantastically huge topic that can not really be discussed in one post (however...

This is the review post of the third week of our Food Photography 101 series. As was previously the case, several people contributed their results to the Food Photo 101 flickr pool. This week’s contributors were: Curt LaRecetteDuJour NJYar Big Mill BB As you remember from this last Tuesday’s post “FP101-3: Depth of Field”, we have been exploring Depth of...

This post is for those of us who have DSLRs. P&Sers can not, unfortunately, take advantage of the universe of lenses. Many thanks to Hamish of hames.ca who I featured in my previous post “FP101-3: Depth of Field“. He took the time to write to me with some information on more affordable tilt-shift...

Here are Curt’s results, as seen on his blog Bucky’s Barbecue and Bread Blog. His results are fantastic!! Lesson 3 is all about depth of field (DOF). One thing I’ve noticed in looking at food photos is that really shallow DOF is used a LOT with food (sometimes too much, I think). ...

Depth of Field This week’s topic will be Depth of Field (DOF) . Remember that I am putting together a food photo glossary for those terms that may not be as commonly known. I will also try to link as many of them in the text to the wikipedia entries. What is this Depth of...

Barley the chicken says: Happy Thanksgiving We will be taking a break from Food Photo 101 during this holiday week Post your Thanksgiving food photos in the Food Photo 101 flickr group Eat more turkey Thank you for eating less chicken We will be back next week. Technorati Tags: Happy, Thanksgiving, Food Photo 101,...

This week we had quite a few people contribute their results to the Food Photo 101 flickr pool. I am going to go through Curt’s results as well as those of the other participants, which include: LaRecetteDuJour Vegan Noodle Big Mill BB Lets start with Curt’s work In the series of images below you can see his set up and bounces...