Quite simply, I love food.
Food photography is notoriously difficult, tricky and fickle – many photographers actively avoid it like the plague. But for me, it’s a joy.
There’s something about catching a disappearing truffle foam, a melting ice cream or an oozing steak that just makes me smile. And my stomach rumble.
I work with a small flexible lighting system that allows me to setup in the corner of a restaurant and provide studio-like lighting within the restaurant itself. It’s important that the kitchen is just a holler away as most dishes have a short optimal lifespan, and it’s all about working with the chef or food stylist to get the plate at its finest. Then it’s a case of lighting it so that the colours and textures reveal all the tiny subtleties that only a legion of tastebuds could know.
There’s a massive number of review sites online now complete with punters’ review and photos. Dim camera phone photos don’t make anyone’s food look good at all.
