After my summer workshop, many of you reached out and asked if I’d be holding this workshop again. I am happy to say, YES, I am offering my FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY NARRATIVES WORKSHOP with Natural light, Simple Styling & Storytelling through The Bloom Forum – 2 more times in 2015!
The first class will be from February 9th thru February 27th & REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. It is a three week intensive workshop (multiple assignments – some are optional.) In order to get the most out of the workshop, please allow for time in your schedule to complete them.
If you have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to email me directly.
Just a reminder, **you must be a member of The Bloom Forum to participate in this online workshop & YOU’LL WANT TO!
You can hop over to The Bloom Forum Website to BECOME A MEMBER, and then register for the workshop HERE.
I am limiting the number of active seats available, so as to be sure I give all active attendees ample attention and feedback.
Registration CLOSES February 2, 2015.CLOSED
If you can’t make this one, but would like to be notified of future workshop dates, just sign up below.
This 3 week long online workshop is all about making beautiful images of food using natural light, simple styling as well as telling a story around it. Seeking the one perfect image is wonderful, but, for me – it’s the story that pulls me in deeper, makes me want to keep coming back for more, and keeps me loving what I do simply because each story is inherently unique.
In our time together, I will share with you what I have learned and what I know about making beautiful and engaging images of food by using solid techniques and almost more importantly, a creative eye & heart through descriptions, visual examples, demonstrations, shooting assignments and individual critiques.
This workshop is for food photographers, food bloggers, recipe developers, food writers, hobbyists, amateurs, or anyone wanting to learn to improve the quality of their images and/or how to approach, style and make beautiful images of food using natural light in the simplest of settings. I create many of my food images/stories in the dining room of my own home or by a single window in my studio with the simplest of props, natural styling, and basic equipment, and you can too.
My goal is to share with you my approach along with the components of creating beautiful photographs of food that you can take with you, continue to practice with and use to create enticing images to grab your reader’s/client’s attention on your own websites, blogs or personal projects.
Pr-requisites: You may be at any level, skill-wise, but you must know how to use your own camera’s functions, and understand the fundamentals of manual exposure.
***This is NOT a beginner’s photography 101 class. Any dslr camera will be fine. If you have the ability to change out (or borrow) lenses, even better – I mainly use a 50 1.4 and a 100 2.8 macro.
A tripod will be very advantageous, as would shooting tethered, but not necessary. I will be using both, lightroom and photoshop – both of which, you should have a basic understanding of.
If you have any specific questions as far as equipment and/or programs, just drop me an email.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Topics covered will include:
Class Outline
Lesson 1 Your Story/Your Style: The thought process behind a food shoot – storyboards/purpose/theme/color palette/mood and your style of storytelling.
Lesson 2 Natural Light: How to see, and find, light as well as understanding the differences in the qualities of light.
Lesson 3 Modifying Light: How to manipulate light with simple and affordable materials.
Lesson 4 Technical Camera Considerations (Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, White Balance): How your manual settings play an important role in the artistic choices you make in creating an image as well as understanding when and why to make certain choices.
Lesson 5 Camera Shooting Considerations (Lens Selection, Camera Angles, Lighting Directions)
Lesson 6 The Story
Lesson 7 Creating Your Shot List
Lesson 8 Artistic Considerations- Part One (Light, A Sense of Place, Composition, Color, Emotion)
Lesson 9 Artistic Considerations- Part Two (Props and Set Styling) – Choosing backgrounds, props and styling simply (and the importance of not over-styling).
Lesson 10 Artistic Considerations- Part Three (Food Styling)
Lesson 11 Being Prepared to Shoot/I’ll walk you through how I prepare everything BEFORE I shoot, and then parts of the shooting process, via a video.
Lesson 12 Post Processing: I’ll walk you through some of my basic editing, via screen recording.
Lesson 13 Assembling your Visual Story: How I marry imagery and design for interest and impact for strong storytelling.
Lesson 14 Getting Inspired, Staying Inspired, and Working your Craft
Final Assignment/Bonus Optional Assignment
The Workshop is online and forum based – which means it is in written form, with Lessons and interaction all happening within the workshop forum. The workshop will be accessible for a month after the workshop ends as well as each student receiving the pdf of the workshop for future review.
Students will receive:
Written Lessons
Demo videos
Post processing video
Assignments and individual constructive feedback
The full downloadable pdf of this workshop
Q&A: All active seats will be able to participate in open Q & A sessions throughout the 3 weeks. I’m here to share with you and you’re here because you want to learn, so don’t be shy. Ask away, I’ll do my very best to answer anything and everything to the best of my ability.
Want to hear what past workshop attendees had to say about their experience? You can, right HERE.
A few additional notes:
Once registered, your paypal confirmation will act as your paid receipt and I will be sending an email out to everyone a week or so before the workshop begins.
All sales are final. You may, however, transfer/sell your seat to another, but please be sure I have all that person’s information, so I may add them to the workshop information email list.
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