Lighting can be frustrating in food photography, no doubt. One can accrue rules and think they got it but sometimes certain subjects rather like lighting that would make other subjects die a photonic death. I have put these photos up for you to consider. These mushrooms LOVE the strong direct light from the almost straight-above...

[Today we look at Curt's results for FP101-2. He has done an amazing job working through this. Question: What movie is he alluding to with his subject? You will find the answer at the bottom of this post. I can not wait to see what you all come up with too!] Lesson 2 was all...

Welcome back! I was so impressed by all of the work you all did on the last lesson, great job! We have begun to familiarize ourselves with our cameras with the last exercise (Food Photo 101: First Principles), putting your hands to work on the settings and knobs and dials and such. Its ok if...

It has been a fantastic week! We have had more than 80 people sign up to participate and we have several submissions of image sets at the flickr Food Photo 101 group. We have gotten so many lovely emails that have thanked us for starting this series. Thank you for your support. There are quite...

What follows is the excellent work by Curt on this week’s first lesson (Food Photo 101-1). He was fantastically methodical in recording and discussing his experience. Read on to see what he has learned. Nika put together a great lesson for our first week. This is the second part of these lessons. After getting Nika’s...

(Click here for a printable PDF version of this post) (Kiwano Horned Melon, shot with a 4 MP Fujifilm Finepix S3100) Welcome to all of you following along! I would like to thank each of you for writing to us about your interest in this project. Curt and I have been overwhelmed by the response,...

This is the first in what will be a series of posts that I will be producing in concert with the lovely Curt from the delicious BBQ and bread blog called Bucky’s Barbecue and Bread. Course Objective: To guide interested budding food photographers through the technical and creative barriers they may be experiencing with their...