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...

Because the flash slideshow seems to be messing up the browser for some of you, I am moving flash show further down in this post. This way, if you want to see many more of these portraits, make the jump to the main article, knowing that your browser may not handle the flash slideshow gracefully....

(Dan Macey and assistant, packing up after their class, “More Than One Way to Roast a Chicken or Make a Burger” June 2, 2007) June 1-4 was the International Conference on Food Styling and Photography at Boston University, sponsored by the BU Culinary Arts Program. It was also some of the longest few days in...

I am posting a few stragglers that have come out of my recent experiments to wrap them up. Tomorrow I will be going to the Photoshop World show in Boston so I will be a bit out of the loop. I hope to be able to snag some software that I need to get back...

Getting beauty from this shoot was harder than I expected. Things I learned or reinforced: I over estimated the translucence of oranges I found radishes to be really opaque but with lovely leaves kiwi have a LOT of potential that I have not tapped yet Alcohol, 409, and copious amounts of paper towels are your...

I have been meaning to do this shoot for some time but never got around to it until today. My objective was to examine the inner beauty of natural things like fruits and vegetables. In this case, it was a grapefruit, carrots, green beans and radishes. This is just a first “draft,” if you will....

I am so excited to say that the details for the International Conference on Food Styling and Photography, June 1 – 4, 2007 at Boston University, have been finalized and are available at the Boston University Culinary Arts Program site. This should be an absolutely fantastic opportunity to network with food photographers and food stylists...