Today is the last day to submit images for the DMBLGIT March 2009 food photography contest! I will accept them until midnight eastern daylight savings time. You can see all of the latest submissions at this flickr group. You will see that we judges will have our job cut out for us! Speaking of judges, I...

. Just a reminder, the submission deadline for DMBLGIT March 2009 is this Friday, March 20th. Submissions have been coming like gangbusters. If you have not submitted yours yet, don’t delay! Read the details on the contest at this post. And just let me say – Wow, you people are simply amazing photographers! You...

The last time I ran it, wow, the world was a simpler place, we all walked 10 miles to and from school, up hill, through 5 feet of snow, there was world peace, and the atom had not been split...

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...

Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden Eating homegrown food is not only good for you and your bank account but it can be fantastically tasty and quite photogenic. I recently received a review copy of “Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden” by Jeanne Kelley (published in April...

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,...

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...