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Restaurant Food Photography – Part 3: Tips and Tricks

Time for part 3 of the restaurant food photography series.  We covered off etiquette in part 1, and getting the most out of dining with family and friends in part 2.  So part 3 is all about tips and tricks for getting your best photos when you’re not in control of your surroundings. The good [...]

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Wordless Monday

I know… it’s supposed to be Wordless Wednesday… with all the “w” letters… it’s clever, right?  But whatever… I have other things planned for Wednesday.  Or maybe Thursday.  We’ll see how the week goes. At any rate… I’m pretty much never wordless so it’s not even a wordless Monday.  What it is, is “A Bunch [...]

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Restaurant Food Photography – Part 2: Dining With Friends & Family

  This is part 2 in my three part series on restaurant food photography.  In part 1 I covered etiquette when photographing in restaurants.  In part 3 I’ll cover tips and tricks to make the most of conditions you can’t control.  But, today, we’re going to look at dining with friends and family. I don’t [...]

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Friday Tea & Chocolate: Coppeneur Cuvee Chocolade

Time for a Friday tea and chocolate break!  This week we’re hanging out with some lovely chocolate from Coppeneur.  I spent a week in Calgary towards the end of April for work and after an early morning meeting my first day there, I found myself with a free afternoon. When you visit a new city, [...]

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Restaurant Food Photography – Part 1: Etiquette

Today is the start of a three part series on restaurant food photography.  I’ve been asked a few times to offer up some tips on how to take solid photos in restaurants where it feels like you have very little control over the surroundings, lights and food presentetion. It’s something I’ve wanted to write about [...]

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FBC2013 – An Honest Glimpse Behind the Scenes

When you give birth to something you are passionate about, building, nurturing it, and shaping it to follow a vision is a labour of love.  Labour and love being the key words. When you publicly attach your name to it and throw it out into the world and are a recovering perfectionist like I am, [...]

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